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Today's Headlines and Commentary
DNI James Clapper has officially apologized to Congress for his "clearly erroneous" response to Senator Ron Wyden's question concerning NSA surveillance programs. -
DNI James Clapper's Letter Apologizing to Congress
The letter that Director of National Intelligence James Clapper wrote to apologize to Congress about his testimony in March 2013 regarding NSA surveillance of American citizens is now publicly available.... -
Cairo Diary, July 2: Brotherhood and Defiance
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Abdullah Notes An Appeal
His long-pending motion for a preliminary injunction having been denied in May, Yemeni detainee Hani Abdullah now has noted his appeal to the D.C. Circuit. -
DoD Report on Adnan Latif Death
A sad coda to the story of Adnan Latif, the Guantánamo detainee found dead in his cell on September 8, 2012. As I mentioned in yesterday's roundup, a classified military report released on Friday confirm... -
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...
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