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No Remand in ACLU FOIA Appeal
A three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Judges Tatel, Garland and Griffith) has rejected the CIA's motion to remand in ACLU v. -
US-China Cyber Dialogue
Two think tanks -- one from China and one (CSIS) from the US have been conducting a dialogue on cybersecurity over the past several years. This joint release (English at the bottom) summarizes some of t... -
All Together Now: All 9/11 Accused Now Agnostic About Severance
Reviewing the docket in United States v. -
FOIA Request Reveals National Security Letter Templates
The Wall Street Journal and Ars Technica report on some very intersting results of a FOIA request for information on the "national security letters" that the FBI sends to tech companies to get informatio... -
Homeland Security in 2025
Last week, Brookings published an interesting paper "A Vision for Homeland Security in the Year 2025," by Darrell West. The paper is the result of a rather large session conducted at Brookings last Nove... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
The Treasury Department has imposed sanctions on a number of informal money-exchange networks in Afghanistan and Pakistan. -
The Serious Side of Lawfare’s Drone Smackdown
I’m not too surprised by the negative reaction provoked by my post over the weekend about my coming drone duel with Alice Beauheim. It was a cheeky, flip post on a very serious subject—as several people ... -
Two More Jurisdictional Challenges Rejected in Al-Nashiri
Judge James Pohl has denied two motions to dismiss for lack of personal jurisdiction in United States v. -
Gabriella Blum on Spiders and "Invisible Threats"
Gabriella Blum has a new essay out entitled, "Invisible Threats." Part of the Emerging Threats series of the Hoover Institution's Koret-Taube Task Force on National Security and Law (of which Jack, Ken, ... -
The First Lawfare Drone Smackdown
I have been challenged to a dogfight. The other day, over lunch, Alice Beauheim--occasional Lawfare book review writer, godmother of the Lawfare license plate, and an employee, if you catch my meaning, ... -
Negotiations Ongoing For The Transfer of Kuwaiti GTMO Detainees
That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan... -
ACLU Opposition to CIA Motion to Remand in DC Circuit FOIA Case
From the Blog of the Legal Times, we learn that the ACLU has filed its opposition to the CIA's motion to remand, in the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") appeal now awaiting oral argument before the D.C.
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