Counsel for Ali Hamza Suliman al Bahlul have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court appealing the October 2016 ruling by the U.S. Circuit Court of the District of Columbia sitti...

A remarkable development:

Counsel for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri in the Guantanamo detainee's habeas case have filed a petition for a writ of certiorari with the Supreme Court appealing the decision made by the U.S. Court of Appeals...

Our roundup of documents in ongoing litigation related to Trump's executive order has now moved here. This post will no longer be updated.

Following the inauguration, WhiteHouse.gov updated with a series of "Briefing Issues" laying out priorities for the new administration. Three pledges in particular will be of interest to Lawfare readers:...

The New York Times reported this morning that the Obama administration has put into place new rules allowing the NSA to disseminate “raw signals intelligence information.” According to a 23-page, mostly ...

The House Intelligence Committee has made public its full 36-page report on Edward Snowden, which was previously classified. The Committee approved the report in September and previously released an unc...

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court may soon decide whether the First Amendment requires it to release its major opinions and orders dating back to the September 11 attacks.

Yesterday afternoon, President Barack Obama gave a final planned national security address at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida, one day after the White House released a comprehensive report on ...

Last year, Kenneth Anderson and I published a book entitled, Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration's Addresses on National Security Law, which is a detailed analysis of the Obama Administration's na...

The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has released a new version of its white paper on "Smartphone Encryption and Public Safety." The report updates the Office's November 2015 white paper on encryptio...

Today the GW Center for Cyber and Homeland Security released a report entitled, Into the Gray Zone: The Private Sector and Active Defense Against Cyber Threats.