The President says that he has ordered a review of NSA surveillance programs, and one of the challenging aspects of such review will be establishing metrics of success and value.  This is a common challe...

August 12 is the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions.  As a candidate, Senator Obama was highly critical of the Bush Administration’s non-application of the Geneva Conventions to de...

Last Tuesday, Judge Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a FOIA suit seeking access to NSC records about the drone program.

During his press conference today (transcript here), President Obama announced a quartet of reform initiatives meant to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of NSA activities and the FISA system, both ...

Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.

Although the majority of this afternoon's press conference focused on the NSA's surveillance programs (transcript available in my post below), President Obama did speak to a few other important national ...

President Obama is currently holding a press conference at which he is speaking on a range of Lawfare-relevant topics. He has announced, report the Washington Post and New York Times, proposals to reform...

Some interesting terrorism-prosecution developments over the past few days that are worth noting. United States v. Mohammed (S.D. Fla.) First, a pair of men (one leaving in Kenya, and the other--who hap...

I was sufficiently puzzled by Charlie Savage's story yesterday about NSA email monitoring that I waited a day to write anything about it. I'm still pretty puzzled by it, so I'm going to use this post to ...