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Let's begin with news of that well-dressed albatross around President Obama's neck: you know, Hamid Karzai. He met with Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, who told him to, in a phrase, knock it off a...
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Obviously, there's a lot to say about Monday's decision by Judge Leon granting a preliminary injunction against the NSA's telephone metadata program and then staying that decision pending appeal.
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Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings. The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.
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Game on. The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench. Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi. That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." His point was that only small-minded men refused to re...
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It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case.
Sam...
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Caroline Krass had her confirmation hearings today before SSCI to become General Counsel of CIA. Krass is, in my opinion, wildly qualified for the job, and I hope her confirmation process goes smoothly ...
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They say that the lack of information sharing is one of the major exacerbating factors behind cyber-insecurity. So I've decided that Lawfare is going to be entirely transparent about the attacks against ...
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It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two. Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...
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The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008. After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...
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The Senate voted 67-33 to end debate on the budget this morning. Half of the sequester cuts, which were scheduled to resume in January 2014, have been reversed. The NDAA will also likely get through the ...
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We’ve returned from a lunch recess. So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ...
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Well, that will teach us to post podcast interviews with NSA officials!
We have been experiencing intermittent outages this morning. They appear to be the result of cyberattacks coming from IP addresses...
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46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008.
In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery. She de...
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Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?
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It’s go time down at Guantanamo.
Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones. Capt. Tod...
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Today begins the open portion of a week-long slate of hearings in the 9/11 military commission case, United States v. Mohammed et al. Your Lawfare correspondent is caffeinated, rested, and ready to provi...
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It's Day 2 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—a special series of podcast interviews with senior NSA officials that we conducted last week.
In today's episode, we sit...