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The administration issued this statement yesterday on NSA collection under Sections 702 and 215. The entire statement---which describes controls on the programs, their broad parameters, and their value i...
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The Washington Post this morning has another big NSA story, this one historical in nature. I'm still digesting it, so for now, I'll just flag key aspects of it.
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It is dated this Friday, and begins as follows:
Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:)
I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Po...
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The following is a guest post from Professor Kathleen Clark of Washington University Law.
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Like most people accessing the Internet this week, we at Lawfare were a bit focused on everything related to the Edward Snowden leaks. We had some other valuable commentary, though, including a rather in...
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Over the last 24 hours, the House debated and voted on nearly 200 amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 1960). Many of these amendments were approved via "voice vote" (there ...
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You'll find Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's six-page statement here. The opening paragraphs are as follows:
Good afternoon. This week, the Military Commission convened to try the charges against Abd Al-Rahim ...
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Senator Rand Paul has said he is "reserving judgment" about Edward Snowden, but nevertheless characterized Snowden's conduct as "civil disobedience." Is that right?
From Socrates through Thoreau, Gandh...
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Three weeks ago yesterday, in his NDU speech, President Obama announced:
I’m appointing a new senior envoy at the State Department and Defense Department whose sole responsibility will be to achieve the ...
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Ritika has withdrawn to an undisclosed location for a few weeks of well-deserved R&R. You're stuck with me for a while.First, to non-Edward Snowden/NSA stories:The United States has concluded that the Sy...
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Over at Forbes, John Villasenor has this interesting piece arguing that the NSA revelations will tend to increase economic espionage against U.S.
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This is pretty interesting.
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Recess is done. Does Richard Kammen want to be heard further on monitoring? You bet he does.
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The second of our two monitoring witnesses is Army Col. John Bogdan. He’s the joint detention group commander at GTMO. And, like Welsh’s testimony, his remarks will inform the resolution of AE149, the ...
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The commission is once more called to order. Witness testimony on AE149C, and monitoring, beckons---in particular, testimony by Navy CAPT Thomas Welsh. He’s the Staff Judge Advocate for JTF-GTMO, and s...
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This week, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) filed two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 (H.R. 1960). The first, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and James Moran (D-VA), provi...
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AE114 is next. It involves RMC 703(c), and commission procedures for the production of witnesses. Do these violate the Military Commissions Act, and Al-Nashiri’s constitutional and statutory due proces...
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Yesterday's Senate Appropriations Committee hearing attracted quite a lot of attention, unsurprisingly, as General Keith Alexander, the head of the NSA, testified regarding the PRISM program.
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The hearing resumes, with all parties present including the accused.
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Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade' Burba Cottage---our usual CCTV venue, Smallwood Hall, being unavailable---to take in another day of piped-in-from-Guantanamo hearings in United States v. Al-Nash...