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The following is an independent assessment by British barrister David Anderson of nine internal reviews of British intelligence in connection with four terrorist attacks in the spring and summer of 2017.
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The U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York has charged Akayed Ullah, the suspect in Monday's attempted suicide attack in New York, on five counts. They are:
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President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 2018. Read the conference report here and Lawfare's previous coverage highlighting parts of the bill here. The pre...
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The White House Press Office has released the following letter, dated Dec. 11, 2017, informing Congress of current military operations consistent with the 2001 and 2002 authorizations for the use of mili...
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The chief prosecutor of the Guantanamo Bay military commissions, Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, has brought new charges against Riduan bin Isomuddin (also known as Hambali), an al-Qaida affiliate alleged ...
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Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly denied the government's request for a partial stay of the court's Oct. 30 injunction, which required the military to allow prospective transgender enlistees by Jan. 1. The fu...
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The Supreme Court issued orders in Trump v. Hawaii and Trump v. IRAP, allowing the White House's revised travel ban to take effect while litigation proceeds in the Fourth and Ninth circuits. The full ord...
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Former NSA Tailored Access Operations (TAO) developer Nghia Hoang Pho pleaded guilty on Friday to willful retention of national defense information. Pho faces a maximum of ten years in prison for removin...
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On Nov. 30, the Justice Department responded to D.C. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan's order in ACLU v. Mattis for the government to say whether the unnamed American citizen detainee being held as an ...
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The House Permament Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI) has released its version of the FISA Amendements Reauthorization Act of 2017.
You can find the document here:
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The Office of Military Commissions Convening Authority (CA) upheld U.S. Air Force Colonel Judge Vance Spath's contempt finding against Brigadier General John Baker. However, the CA has exempted him from ...