The fated hour arrives; the gavel bangs; the judicial authority almost emanates.  The commission once more is called to order.  Both sides are present, lawyer-wise, with a few individual lawyers absent. ...

It is a chilly morning here at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, venue for Lawfare's coverage of almost-live, CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo hearings.  This marks the third day of this week's four-day motio...

An important Lawfare-related sentence from last night’s SOTU address: [I]n the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of t...

As Rafaella reported last night, President Obama went “all-in” on cybersecurity last night, marrying a substantive mention of cyber in his State of the Union address (I’m bitter about  that -- I bet agai...

In the President's State of the Union Address, President Obama spent a fair amount of time on foreign policy and Lawfare-related matters. In addition to announcing his cybersecurity executive order, he d...

Just in time for his State of the Union Address, President Obama has signed and released his executive order on cybersecurity. And we have it all right here in one place for you.

A few weeks ago, I wrote in a brief essay published by the Hoover Institution, in which I posed the following question: "How long do we really think it will take before a gun enthusiast arms a remotely-p...

Lt. Col. Ramon Torres now testifies by VTC from Orlando, Florida, where he works in the human resources command.  But his testimony is not strictly directed to monitoring matters; instead, explains bin A...

Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy---with whom we are piloting our little analytic experiment---has an important and timely report out entitled The State of Global Jihad Online:...

Lunch ends and our proceedings resume. Judge Pohl does so with a few logistical notes. Our marching orders later today may depend on witnesses' video tele-conference (VTC) scheduling; the parties thus c...