The in-court audio gadgets having been satisfactorily adjusted, the hearing picks up again.  Some more odds and ends noted for the record: the court raises the recent Rule 706 examination requested by th...

The proverbial gavel sounds; the military judge, resplendent as ever in his robes, returns; Al-Nashiri’s case resumes.  He is in the courtroom, seated at the far left of counsel table.

Many, of course, will doubt the power of data mining, geolocation and other cyber techniques to resolve ambiguities.  One would have thought, however, that Edwards Snowden the (in)famous NSA leaker would...

Pardon the interruption from all-things-surveillance, but pursuant to our back and forth with Bobby, Jack, Matt, and Ben on the merits of a new AUMF, Representative Adam Schiff, a senior member of the Ho...

You can't make this stuff up.  The Guardian has revealed its source to be NSA contractor Edward Snowden, who (not surprisingly) appears to be a fierce advocate of online freedom and privacy and who (perh...

Last week, the inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) approved Japanese telecommunications firm SoftBank's purchase of a 70% interest in Sprint-Nextel.

[Editor's Note: Carrie Cordero is a frequent Lawfare guest poster, a former Justice Department official, and currently Director of National Security Studies at Georgetown University Law Center]  As some...

Four comments on today's Washington Post story (and the Verizon story on domestic and foreign data collection): First, today's Post story reminded me of this very interesting 2008 post from David Kris. ...

This story from Glenn Greenwald is pretty alarming--but it pales in comparison to the FISA Court's order itself, a copy of which is posted on the Guardian's website.

President Obama and his team pledged in 2009 to work hard with Congress to close GTMO.  There appeared to be little White House follow-up for the next four years, however.  And indeed, the administration...