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The NSA Documents, Part III: The November 2011 FISC Opinion
The government acted swiftly in response to Judge John D. Bates’s October 3, 2011 opinion. While it contemplated an appeal, it did not bring one. Instead, it adopted a series of alterations to the NSA’s ... -
8/22 Motions Session #1: Dislike of "Piecemeal Litigation"
Judge Pohl re-convenes the military commission, and tallies the show-ups and no-shows. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is in the house, as is Ammar al-Baluchi; their three co-accused are not. -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: August 22 Session
The audience at Burba Cottage has shrunk slightly. But your Lawfare correspondents are ready to begin Day Four of this week's pre-trial motions hearings in United States v. -
The NSA Documents, Part II: The October 2011 FISC Opinion
The document that will surely capture the lion’s share of the public’s attention---and rightly so---is the October 3, 2011 FISC opinion by Judge John D. Bates, then the presiding judge of the FISC. -
The NSA Documents, Part I: Introduction
Rather than starting with what I---or anyone else---think and believe about the remarkable cache of documents the intelligence community declassified yesterday, I thought we should begin with a detailed ... -
Second Circuit Holds Remaining ATS Claims in Apartheid Litigation Barred by Kiobel
The Second Circuit today held that the ATS claims against Ford, Daimler, and IBM -- the three remaining defendants in the decade-long litigation against more than fifty companies for allegedly aiding an... -
Declassified Intelligence Community Documents
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is declassifying a large group of important documents pertaining to NSA surveillance programs under Section 702 of FISA. I will keep updating this list... -
8/21 Motions Session #9: "Contraband"
The prosecutor Edward Ryan stands at the mic as the judge reconvenes the commission. Visibly impassioned, Ryan presents the government’s argument on AE018. He mentions some attention-grabbing examples o... -
8/21 Motions Session #8: AE018, Part Two
Audio technical difficulties apparently resolved, the commission reconvenes, with David Nevin still out front. -
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8/21 Motions Session #7: AE018
Your correspondents bid goodbye to Burba’s lakeside picnic tables, just before the military judge announces the resumption of proceedings. One accused, Ramzi Binal Shibh, has joined the group at the ELC... -
8/21 Motions Session #6: More Motions to Compel And Miscellany
A mish-mash-y discussion follows on motions to compel, the mish-mash being necessary for many reasons: because many substantive motions overlap, and thus call for interrelated but separate compulsion req...
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