Several weeks ago I noted that Iran had announced its intention to sue the developers of the Stuxnet virus.  As I said, it was an almost perfect Lawfare type question -- in what court? under what theorie...

That's the read out from yesterday, in the Hedges case. Here's the government's interim request to Judge Forrest, to stay her permanent injunction during the government's appeal to the Second Circuit.

Last week, Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts described the leaked draft Executive Order on Cybersecurity (which he had not seen) as "focused."  Maybe so, but at 19 pages it seems rather less so to me.  ...

David Remes---who, in addition to representing several Guantanamo detainees, is a member of the plaintiffs' legal team in Hedges v. Obama---sent in this note yesterday: The debate on this blog about Jud...

Lawfare reader Col. Fritz Barth USMCR (ret.) writes in with this comment on the SCI nondisclosure obligations of Matthew Bissonnette, author of No Easy Day: There is one additional element of Bissonette'...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following response to my comments on Hedges. My thoughts follow his critique and very-cautious defense of Judge Forrest: Ben’s post on Judge Forrest’s o...

Well that sure didn't take long [h/t: emptywheel].

An attorney who was deeply involved in the Al Bihani litigation sent me the following note about my post on the Hedges decision:

There are a lot of questions one could ask about yesterday’s order in Hedges, to put it mildly.  I’ll limit myself to this one: exactly what is the scope of Judge Forrest’s permanent injunction?  (Steve ...

I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.

I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts. The opinion...

I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...