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A Lawfare debate ensued over an amicus brief filed in the Al-Bahlul D.C. Circuit appeal.
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The American Bar Association, Standing Committee on Law and National Security (of which, full disclosure here, I am a member) has released a new book: "The ABA Cybersecurity Handbook: A Res
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There is an interesting article in the New York Times this morning, from Mark Mazzetti and Mark Landler, the thrust of which is captured by the headline: "Despite Administration Promises, Few Signs of Ch...
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Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling. It was filed yesterday.
Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou...
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Lawfare readers likely noticed already: for much of the day, the site was inaccessible. It appears to be functioning now.
The outage was entirely a consequence of acknowledged but undefined "issues" en...
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As Paul noted, Timothy Edgar, former Deputy for Civil Liberties for the DNI, and Director of Privacy and Civil Liberties for the White House National Security Staff, authored this Wall Street Journal op-...
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Tim Edgar has a unique perspective on national security surveillance. He's an ACLU lawyer who went to work for the White House and did intelligence law from the inside. Now he is out again (at Brown) a...
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In breaking news, Edward Snowden is no longer holed up in an airport terminal---he has been granted asylum for one year in Russia. Several Latin American countries had granted Snowden's request for perm...
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Back when we founded Lawfare nearly three years ago, I got a call from a woman named Brooke Goldstein, who runs a group called The Lawfare Project based in New York. She was interested in possible collab...
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The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case. (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...
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Senate Intelligence Committee Chair Dianne Feinstein penned a Washington Post op-ed.
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Here's the "Primary Collection Order" authorizing the collection of telephone metadata, signed by FISC Judge Roger Vinson (signed April 25 and expiring on July 19th, 2013), declassified.
Also declassifi...
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A big hearing is taking place this morning at 9am before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Media report that the Verizon order will be declassified at this hearing.
Catch it live at the
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In light of yesterday's events in the Bradley Manning case, I really want to see this fascinating-looking documentary:
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Steve’s latest insightful and well-argued comments on Former Government Officials and Military Lawyers’ amicus brief in al Bahlul highlight one important difference between us, but obscure that issue wit...
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In one of the first lower court decisions since the Supreme Court's somewhat opaque decision in Kiobel in June, a court in the Northern District of Alabama last week dismissed a suit brought under the Al...