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Yesterday's Washington Post editorial discussed the pernicious effects of the shutdown on U.S. national security, and quoted John's post from last Sunday in it. The editorial opens:
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On Monday, Judge Dora Irizarry of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a suit brought under the Alien Tort Statute and the Antiterrorism Act against two former Directors of Pakistan's Inter-Service...
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The oral arguments in Monday’s D.C. Circuit en banc review of Ali Hamza al Bahlul’s military commission conspiracy conviction essentially came down to competing views of history. The government concedes ...
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I'm sick of talking about the government shutdown---and it's nowhere near over yet.
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Two pieces in the news worth noting on the issue of secrecy v. transparency in the U.S. intelligence world.
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As far as legal remedies go for software vulnerabilities, code might as well be crack cocaine. So I suggest in my piece today over at Lawfare's new feed at the New Republic: Security States. This is the ...
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I write often about the power of cyberspace and the threats that arise from it -- most recently in discussing how the Syrian Electronic Army is an important contingency to plan for during military operat...
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That is the gist of this quite important filing, made today by the Justice Department, in the case of Idris v. Obama. It begins:
Respondents respectfully submit this response to Petitioner’s Motion...
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It isn't strictly a national security law topic, but I thought I would share my experience in renewing my passport this past week. I returned home from Abu Dhabi on September 21, with a passport that wa...
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The Chairman of the Intelligence Committee, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), made a lengthy floor statement yesterday on the ongoing government shutdown. Her remarks dedicated a section to the fiasco's ...
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Ideologically extreme members of Congress, 1; federal government employees, veterans,
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Today, I have a piece over at Security States, a joint project of Lawfare and The New Republic which just got underway this week.
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Despite the government shutdown, the Senate Judiciary Committee is moving forward with its planned hearing on FISA.
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Here's a new addition to the Lawfare Wiki Document Library: A set of resources on this year's FISA leaks and declassifications. Our amazing intern, Nicholas Basciano, is still working it---so please emai...
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Tuesday’s oral argument in the New York Times and American Civil Liberties Union’s Freedom of Information Act cases before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals spent as much time clarifying the basic issu...
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That apparently is the gist of AE155, an order handed down today down at Guantanamo---but still not yet available on the military commissions' website. (We've covered this litigation in detail, most rec...
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Just as performers sometimes single out one member of the audience to reach, advocates in an en banc rehearing at a federal appeals court don’t always expect to win over a majority. The government showe...