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Earlier in the week, I wondered aloud about the future of a temporary restraining order, entered by Judge Gladys Kessler and temporarily banning the force feeding of Guantanamo detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab. ...
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As expected, the House passed an NSA reform bill yesterday. The Los Angeles Times explains that the USA Freedom Act is designed to increase privacy and rollback some forms of government surveillance.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for those outside the Intelligence Community to make a fair assessment of how much harm the Snowden leaks did to national security. And, perhaps, for those inside the...
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I've never heard of Fedscoop before, but it seems to have done a video interview with John DeLong, NSA's compliance chief.
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Watch the event with Assistant Attorney General John Carlin here:
And here are his remarks as prepared for delivery:
Defending Our Nation by Prosecuting State-Sponsored Cyber Theft
Thanks for that ki...
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This marks the most significant among many dates set by the Second Amended Scheduling Order, in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. The ruling was issued on May 9 (and in respon...
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President Obama has sent 80 U.S. troops to Chad to help the Nigerian government locate the 200 kidnapped schoolgirls.
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Wednesday’s AUMF hearing underscored a point that I develop at some length in my paper Postwar: repeal of the AUMF would not require, as a legal matter, that the government forgo the use of lethal force ...
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A friend who is familiar with Obama administration thinking responds to my post on yesterday’s AUMF hearing:
The administration’s focus is not on ending the war, but on ensuring that future presidents do...
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The revised COIN Field manual is available here. I have not read it but Small Wars Journal has critical commentary by Charles Dunlap, Bing West, Adam Elkus, and
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Published by Random House (2014)
Reviewed by Ali Wyne
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There is much to say about today’s hearing on the AUMF, and I am sure my colleagues will weigh in with much more. But I have two quick reactions for now.
First, I suggest reading two recent Eli Lake ar...
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For the first time, we begin the podcast not with NSA on the defensive, but with breaking news of an American counterattack on Chinese cyberspying---the indictment of several PLA members for breaking int...
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Last week, U.S. District Judge Gladys Kessler entered a temporary restraining order in a habeas case filed by Guantanamo detainee Jihad Dhiab. Among other things, and most interestingly, her ruling tempo...
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Over at the New York Times, Charlie Savage has a good story about civil libertarian irritation over the latest version of the "USA FREEDOM Act," H.R. 3361---which he has also posted.
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As Bobby noted earlier, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee is holding a hearing entitled: "Authorization For Use Of Military Force After Iraq And Afghanistan."
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In response to “extensive” pressure on the administration, the Department of Justice will release a 2011 memo that provided the legal justification for the killing of American terrorist suspects overseas...
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The Senate Foreign Relations Committee has a hearing this morning concerning the future of the AUMF, featuring DOD General Counsel Stephen Preston, State Department Principle Deputy Legal Adviser Mary Ma...
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David Sanger’s piece in this morning’s NYT explores the USG’s attempts to justify cracking down on cyber-theft of intellectual property of U.S. firms while at the same time continuing to spy on non-U.S. ...
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For those who haven’t been following super-closely, the Manager’s Amendment to H.R. 3361—the USA FREEDOM Act—is now slated to be considered by the full House of Representatives in the coming days.