The ODNI Tumblr site today posted April 2013 e-mail correspondence between Edward Snowden and the NSA's Office of General Counsel---the only such correspondence NSA says it has found.

Today promises only closed argument on the government's motion to have the military judge reconsider his order for extensive discovery into the CIA's RDI program.  (Open argument was held yesterday.)  We...

We return from a recess-ette.  The parties quickly handle AE272, in which the defense asks the commission to replicate, in this case, a ruling entered in the 9/11 case.  Recall that in the latter, the FB...

Not a lot in President Obama's West Point speech that is new on Lawfare-related matters.

In AE13N, the defense seeks relief from the case’s protective order regarding national security information---in particular, permission for defense counsel in this commission case to draw on classified e...

Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of the indispensable Necessary Secrets, has a new essay in Hoover’s Emerging Threats series entitled “Secrecy, Leaks, and Selective Prosecution.”  He offers this description of...

It’s on---the open part of our proceedings, anyway.  Recall that court and counsel began their day already, some time earlier this morning, in a Role 505(h) session that has concluded.  The parties there...

Two interesting items today: Shane Harris has a look inside the FBI's efforts to track the Chinese hackers.  Here's the intro: "SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German...

Michael Kinsley, in his review of Glenn Greenwald’s book, made the following claims about leaks of national security secrets: The question is who decides.

The Chief Prosecutor at Guantanamo, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, had this to say on the eve of a pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri---which commences tomorrow, and which Lawfare will co...

Scooping his own speech tomorrow at West Point, President Obama today announced his decision on future US force levels in Afghanistan.  Assuming that the winner of the Afghan presidential election will i...