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Let’s start this week with famous American expatriate, Edward Snowden, whose interview with NBC’s Brian Williams aired on Wednesday. Ben was "unmoved" by it, pointing to Snowden’s unwillingness to submit...
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No open session today, either; only an ex parte, in camera session between the court and prosecutors.
Which is to say: this week's hearing has come to a close, so far as Lawfare's coverage is concerned....
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As Ritika mentioned in yesterday’s news coverage of the Williams-Snowden interview, the latter claimed that he initially sought to alert NSA officials to his concerns---among other things by emailing the...
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Let’s give Edward Snowden his due: He did himself a lot of good in his interview with NBC’s Brian Williams, which aired last night. He presents well, coming across as earnest, thoughtful and intelligent....
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The ODNI Tumblr site today posted April 2013 e-mail correspondence between Edward Snowden and the NSA's Office of General Counsel---the only such correspondence NSA says it has found.
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We begin with coverage and analysis of President Obama’s speech at West Point yesterday.
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Did you know that we have not carried out drone strikes in Pakistan since 2013? A story from Ken Dilanian (now at AP) today does a nice job of laying out the many reasons why:
1. Fewer targets ("Many ...
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Today promises only closed argument on the government's motion to have the military judge reconsider his order for extensive discovery into the CIA's RDI program. (Open argument was held yesterday.) We...
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One of the nice things about major presidential speeches is that they often are occasions during which reporters separately get to grill unnamed "senior administration officials" for clarification. So i...
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We return from a recess-ette. The parties quickly handle AE272, in which the defense asks the commission to replicate, in this case, a ruling entered in the 9/11 case. Recall that in the latter, the FB...
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We will hold an event at the Brookings Institution a week from tomorrow, which marks the anniversary of the first Snowden disclosures. Lawfare readers will be familiar with the all the participants and t...
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Action resumes at the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two. Army Col. James Pohl, the military judge, calls the proceedings once more to order.
The defense, in AE267B, makes a due process argumen...
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Not a lot in President Obama's West Point speech that is new on Lawfare-related matters.
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In AE13N, the defense seeks relief from the case’s protective order regarding national security information---in particular, permission for defense counsel in this commission case to draw on classified e...
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Gabriel Schoenfeld, author of the indispensable Necessary Secrets, has a new essay in Hoover’s Emerging Threats series entitled “Secrecy, Leaks, and Selective Prosecution.” He offers this description of...
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It’s on---the open part of our proceedings, anyway. Recall that court and counsel began their day already, some time earlier this morning, in a Role 505(h) session that has concluded. The parties there...
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Two interesting items today:
Shane Harris has a look inside the FBI's efforts to track the Chinese hackers. Here's the intro: "SolarWorld was fighting a losing battle. The U.S. subsidiary of the German...
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Down at Guantanamo, pre-trial proceedings will resume this morning in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, courtroom discussion will be piped to a closed-circuit viewi...
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President Obama has outlined his plan for a future American military presence in Afghanistan: he plans to withdraw all but 9,800 troops by the end of the year. Reuters reports that by the end of 2016, th...