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This is one of the coolest half hours of national security radio I have heard in a long time. The excellent public radio show Radiolab---and reporter Julia Barton---have put together the story of where t...
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President Obama on Tuesday affirmatively stated that the United States does not have any “no spy” agreements with other countries. Many journalists, scholars, and foreign officials have been laboring un...
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At one level, the D.C. Circuit's decision this week in Aamer v. Obama on Guantanamo hunger strikes probably surprised nobody. As expected, the D.C. Circuit upheld the two district court decision to deny ...
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Last September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center (in conjunction with the Aspen Institute) released a Task Force report on Streamlining and Consolidating Congressional Oversight of the US Department of...
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The panel's decision in the closely-watched case of Aamer v. Obama was handed down this morning. The majority opinion opens:
TATEL, Circuit Judge: Petitioners Ahmed Belbacha, Abu Dhiab, and Shaker Aame...
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Over at Politico, Josh Gerstein has an interesting piece on the Ali piracy case, and its potential implications for terrorism cases. The article---which quotes Jen Daskal and Cully Stimson, among others...
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Released today: this quite significant order, containing the district court's findings of fact and conclusions of law in Ibrahim v. Department of Homeland Security---or the "No-Fly List Case" [h/t Wired]...
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That's the word from Guantanamo. We hope to have an updated schedule for the case soon; it looks like the next pre-trial session will be convened in April.
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Ordinarily, on a day like today, yours truly would remind the Interwebs’ military commission-watchers of a pretrial hearing, next week, in the 9/11 case. Usually I would make a plug for Lawfare’s covera...
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Yesterday afternoon, I was privileged to participate in a fascinating event at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society up in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Entitled "Defending an Unowned Internet: Opportuni...
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In the midst of the hubbub over the PRG and PCLOB reports and the President's speech, one of January's more interesting developments in the FISA reform conversation has largely gone unaddressed (albeit n...
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Today at 10am, there will be a number of hearings that may be of interest to Lawfare readers:
House Judiciary Committee hearing on "Examining Recommendations to Reform FISA Authorities." Link is here. T...
