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A couple of weeks ago I recapped the Tsarnaev mandamus oral argument. And on Friday, the First Circuit panel that heard the arguments---composed of Chief Judge Sandra Lynch, and Judges Juan Torruella and...
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Lunch hour concludes at Guantanamo and at Fort Meade.
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Today at 2:00 pm, Lawfare's Herb Lin, along with Richard Bejtlich and Gregory Shannon, will provide testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on "Understanding the Cyber Threat and Implica...
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Today, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivered a speech before a joint session of Congress on a potential U.S. nuclear treaty with Iran. During the address, he declared, “This is a bad deal -...
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We return from recess.
What will the way forward be? The military judge mentions pending motions AE319F and G, and AE333, and AE337. In his view, Judge Spath may be able to rule on some of these witho...
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Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the military judge, resumes proceedings. The question is what those proceedings will comprise, the docket having been winnowed greatly, both by yesterday’s unlawful influence...
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In his NSA Constitution Day speech, and in a follow-up post last week with Ashley Deeks, Ben offered this “tentative hypothesis” for why the intelligence community, and NSA in particular, engenders so mu...
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Litigation resumes in one of Guantanamo's two capital military commission cases today at 0900; likewise the CCTV broadcast of the pre-trial session, which we'll follow from our little perch here at Fort ...
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At 5:00 pm, General John Allen, Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL, will deliver a keynote address at the Atlantic Council on the future of the fight against the Islamic ...
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Jack gave a terrific rapid reaction to the DNI's 2015 annual threat assessment, delivered last Thursday. Here, I wanted to add a few more brief thoughts comparing this assessment to previous ones.
First,...
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Motion AE319J is next. In it, the defense asks to postpone the government’s bid to admit hearsay, pending the Court of Military Commission Review’s (“CMCR”) resolution of an interlocutory appeal concerni...
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Describing his actions as part of a “fateful, even historic, mission,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has arrived in the United States in preparation for his address to Congress on Iran’s nucl...
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The lunch hour comes to a close and we go back in the record in United States v. Al-Nashiri.
What’s the way forward? We wonder, given Judge Vance Spath’s prior ruling on unlawful influence, which exc...
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At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout...
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The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, ascends the bench. Our proceedings return to order.
And they begin with a bang: That is, with the court partially granting defense motion AE332, regardin...
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We today resume with Lawfare's almost-live coverage of pretrial proceedings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. Our two-week hearing's second week is set to commence today so...
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[Cross-posted at Just Security.]
A real consensus is developing on the contours of an appropriate AUMF---at least among academics and other commentators. It wasn’t always this way. For months, we, amon...
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It happened Friday. Here's the White House Statement:
In January 2014, President Obama directed an end to the Section 215 bulk telephony metadata program as it then existed, and called for the establishm...
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Event Announcements (More details on the Events Calendar)
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Last Friday's sessions in the Al Nashiri military commission case were quick. The first came quite early in the morning to resolve an outstanding issue from Thursday's closed session: whether the defense...
