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Lawfare Podcast Episode #35: Mark Plotkin of Covington & Burling on Private Sector National Security Law
Several recent high-profile news items have shone a spotlight on the relationship between the government and private industry in national security matters, an area not frequently discussed in the media. -
New York Times on FISA---and Orin Kerr on the New York Times
Eric Lichtblau of the New York Times has this important story in today's paper: In more than a dozen classified rulings, the nation’s surveillance court has created a secret body of law giving the Nation... -
Cairo Diary, July 6: A New Prime Minister, Maybe
Egypt has a new Prime Minister---or not. State news media announced on Saturday that Mohamed ElBaradei, Nobel Prize winner and outspoken critic of the Brotherhood and the Mubarak regime, had been appoin... -
An Addendum from Nathan Myhrvold on Cyber
Nathan Myhrvold writes in with the following addendum to his paper, "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action," which we published the other day: In the days since Ben posted my paper, I've been asked a fa... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
It was a somewhat light week for us here at Lawfare---though an exceedingly tumultuous one, obviously, for Egypt. We covered the latter's unrest and coup by means of an exciting and experimental feature... -
Venezuela Has Offered Asylum to Edward Snowden
That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times). It begins as follows: CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra... -
Al Warafi Seeks En Banc Review
Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi is seeking en banc review of his habeas petition from the D.C. Circuit. Best of luck with that. A panel of the court affirmed Al Warafi's detention back in May. Lots of cove... -
A Leftist Defense of PRISM---And Critique of Snowden
Here's something you don't see every day: A leftist defense of the NSA and critique of leaker Edward Snowden. It ran a few days ago in a publication called In These Times, which I used to read back when... -
Cairo Diary, July 5: "Friday of Rejection"---and Violence
So much violence tonight. When people called for the ouster of President Hosni Mubarak in 2011, they clashed against state security forces with a clear goal in mind. There was a positive objective. Not ... -
Lawfare in South Africa: The "Obama Docket"
Although President Obama's visit to South Africa went off uneventfully, it is worth reporting belatedly that the Muslim Lawyers Association in South Africa had filed an application with a South African c... -
Petitioners' Reply Brief Filed in Force Feeding Dispute
We blogged earlier in the week about a motion brought by four detainees at Guantanamo----Ahmed Belbacha, Nabil Hadjarab, Abu Wa'el (Jihad) Dhiab, and Shaker Aamer. -
Drones v. Angry Birds
From Shane Harris, shot in Santiago de Compostela in Spain:
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