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Today's Headlines and Commentary
After Russian President Vladimir Putin conditioned asylum for Edward Snowden on the American leaker's promise not to leak more classified information yesterday, Snowden withdrew his asylum request there. -
An Injunction Against Forced Feeding?
A group of hunger-striking Guantanamo detainees is asking the U.S. District Court in D.C. for a preliminary injunction against forced feeding. Judge Rosemary M. Collyer has ordered the government to brie... -
Cairo Diary, July 1: The Day After Tamarod
Let me start with a recap of the day's dramatic events. The Morsi regime continues to face devastating pressure. The Muslim Brotherhood's offices in Cairo were burned last night and this morning, and th... -
Dishonor in High Places: Sandbagging the Intelligence Chief---Again
On March 12 of this year, Senator Ron Wyden asked James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, whether the National Security Agency gathers “any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of mi... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A lot more Edward Snowden and surveillance news this weekend. The EU is most displeased, as Jack noted this morning, to learn that the United States is using its spy agencies to . . . spy on them. On Sa... -
Spying on Allies
The emerging controversy about the USG spying on European allies brings to mind the ECHELON controversy a dozen years ago. (FAS has a page that collects information on ECHELON.) ECHELON was a signals i... -
Laura Dean's Cairo Diary
This is an experiment---one that pushes the boundaries of what Lawfare is all about: We seem to have a correspondent in Cairo. For those readers who haven't noticed, Egypt is exploding once again. I'm n... -
Cairo Diary, June 30: An Introduction and the Scene at Tahrir
It's almost midnight here in Cairo, and Tahrir Square is full---again---as are the streets outside the presidential palace and a place called Rabaa el Adaweyah Square. The latter is full of Muslim Brothe... -
House vs. Senate on the NDAA
Raffaela has already posted on both the House of Representatives's and the Senate's versions of this year's NDAA--highlighting their differences with regards to Guantanamo detentions and transfers. -
Lawfare Podcast Episode #34: An Address by Alan Liotta, DoD Principal Director for the Office of Detainee Affairs
Listen to Alan Liotta, a senior Defense Department official who focuses on the United States' detention policies worldwide on, unsurprisingly enough, the present and future of U.S. -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare in One Post
Lawfare topics took a backseat in the news this week, what with the Supreme Court's attention-grabbing week. The justices were too busy with same-sex marriage, the Voting Rights Act, and affirmative acti... -
Senators' Letter to DNI Clapper on NSA Surveillance
A group of twenty-six senators yesterday wrote to DNI James Clapper, and inquired about the executive branch's application of the USA PATRIOT ACT---chiefly, it seems, the "business records" provision set...
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