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This is from a real Egyptian government web site, that of the State Information Service.
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President Obama is preparing a plan that would withdraw all American troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2014.
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Argument comes now on AE 199, a government motion seeking the court's permission to conduct DNA testing on four hair samples in an FBI lab without the presence of the defense's expert witness. (It's not...
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Marty Lederman has a long post picking apart the errors in last week’s AP story on last December’s drone strike in Yemen. Along the way he carefully parses the covert action statute, and has interesting...
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The estimable Benjamin Weiser of the excellent New York Times news staff wrote me this afternoon response to my post earlier today about the government's motion for pseudononymous testimony in the Sulaim...
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I'm not sure what, but I'm sure it stands for something important:
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Remember how I said Lawfare would return tomorrow, to cover further proceedings in the commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri? Well, we won't be doing so after all; it turns out today's closed s...
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Our wonderful intern, Yishai Schwartz, has to leave soon, and we're looking for someone to take his place this summer.
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I'm very pleased to announce the call for participants in the 7th Annual National Security Law Workshop, which will take place this year on May 15 and 16 in Charlottesville, Virginia.
As in the past, Ge...
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The security company RSA is hosting a conference this week in San Francisco, at which I'll be speaking tomorrow on a minor panel. This morning however is the big keynote set of speeches. And what is mo...
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The afternoon session kicks off with AE 171, a motion that would allow members of the defense team to visit the facility in which Al-Nashiri is housed, referred to as Camp 7, in order to assist the defen...
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Let's take a break today from Ukraine woes, the Russian role, the and possible Western response---though don't miss Putin's fake secret diary.
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Those who leak classified information violate their contracts, the public’s trust, and the law. As for those who publish the leaked information - it’s “complicated,” according to FBI Director James Comey...
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Pre-trial proceedings continue today down at Guantanamo---but on a closed basis. Lawfare thus won't be there, but will pick up with coverage of the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashir...
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David Sanger reports that the Pentagon and the NSA planned a sophisticated cyberattack aimed at “the Syrian military and President Bashar al-Assad’s command structure” that “would essentially turn the li...
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Speaking of the Sulaiman Abu Gayth case in Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom in New York, check out this briefing.
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For those interested in that order the other day by Judge Lewis Kaplan's giving defendant Sulaiman Abu Gayth access to KSM, here's the motion that led to it.
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The last matter for the court this morning is AE 187, a defense motion seeking to move the location of the military tribunal from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to Norfolk, Virginia.
Commander Mizer, for the defe...
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The next motion before the court is AE 181, a defense motion to dismiss the capital punishment referral for all the charges against Al-Nashiri on Due Process and Eighth Amendment grounds because he will ...