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Still leading the news: the story of Edward Snowden, his leaks of classified information about U.S.
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Last Thursday, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted motions to dismiss the suit of a former Guantánamo detainee in Ameur v. Gates for lack of sub...
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A new development in the FISA/FAA world yesterday evening: Google and Microsoft have filed motions with the FISC (posted here on the FISC's public site) asking for permission to disclose to the public ho...
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Speaking of Laura Dean, she also sent me this morning the following account of ongoing and planned protests in Cairo:
It’s a hot muggy day in the restless Egyptian capital. A white haze of pollution brin...
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Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...
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Intelligence officials say that Al Qaeda is altering its M.O. so to avoid letting communications get caught by the NSA surveillance programs. Read this piece by Kimberly Dozier of the AP. She writes:
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A few weeks ago, Brookings hosted a talk by Rached Ghannouchi, the head of Tunisia's ruling---and moderately Islamist---El Nahdha party, gave a talk at the Brookings Institution, a talk we ran as the mos...
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It's a big week at the Supreme Court, but Guantanamo habeas heads will not want to miss this development: the cert denial in Obaydullah on Monday. Steve wrote about this cert petition here, and coverage ...
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This, from the estimable Josh Gerstein of Politico, is disspiriting:
Following a complaint from two senators, the National Security Agency has removed from its website two fact sheets designed to shed li...
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This afternoon, the American Bar Association's Standing Committee on Law and National Security will present a panel discussion entitled "NSA Surveillance Leaks: Facts and Fiction."
The event will be hos...
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Edward Snowden is still in Moscow, since he did not board the flight to Havana yesterday.
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Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.
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For those who are living in a cave and only getting news through Lawfare, we’ll start with an Edward Snowden update: As Wells noted over the weekend, the Justice Department filed charges against Edward S...
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We are pleased to announce that over the last few weeks, Lawfare---which began as a collaborative project of its three founders with no formal organizational structure---has become a non-profit corporati...
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We are very pleased to announce Lawfare's first e-book, Lawfare on the National Defense Authorization Acts, which is now available in Kindle format on Amazon for $4.99.
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Philip Bobbitt (Columbia Law School, and the author of, among many other things, Terror and Consent) writes in:
Three thoughts on the Snowden matter.
First, Snowden's strongest point: how can the govern...
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Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take.