The Smallwood theater at Fort Meade is unusually crowded with press today, but not with the usual suspects--who are all down at Guantanamo itself for the big event. Wells and I are joined by Swedish pres...

A gentle reminder - not that you really needed one, being a devoted Lawfare reader and all  - Ben and I will be live-blogging tomorrow's much-anticipated arraignment in United States v. KSM et al.  Accor...

Well, the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act passed the House last week.  Now that the dust has cleared (and before we move on to the coming Senate battles) it’s probably worthwhile looking at...

Below is a recap of yesterday’s oral argument before the D.C. Circuit in Hamdan v. United States.  As for key takeaways, you’ll find Steve’s breakdown here, and my two cents' worth here. Again, it is an...

As I noted on Tuesday, Adis Medunjanin was convicted this week in connection with the NYC subway bombing plot.  Previously, he had moved to suppress inculpatory statements he’d made after his arrest, and...

Based on a longer article I’d written on this topic, the Hoover Institution published today my essay “Policing Terrorism”, in its institutional journal, Defining Ideas. Here’s how it begins: In recent mo...

Having disgraced myself by missing the argument in Alsabri, I figured I should at least read the opinion. It is a mark of how far the D.C. Circuit has come in establishing the contours of the law of dete...

Both because of my own biases and because Wells is going to be posting more of a blow-by-blow at some point (on top of his initial reaction, which I basically share), I'll spare readers from a comprehens...

We’ll have a full recap of today’s oral argument in Hamdan v. United States up shortly.

Susan Landau is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard's Computer Science Department, formerly a Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, and the author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed b...