An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A...

A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re...

On Friday the government filed its response and reply brief in Klayman v.

Last month Guantanamo detainee Ali al Bahlul filed his opening brief in Al Bahlul v. United States, in a bid to overturn his conviction for conspiracy to commit war crimes, the single military commission...

Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) will introduce an authorization for the use of military force against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) today. The proposal comes as no surprise.

Representative Adam Schiff (D-CA), a member of the House Intelligence Committee, introduced an authorization for the use of military force against ISIS yesterday. According to a press release from Rep.

Last week appellees in Klayman v. Obama filed a motion for the court's leave to televise the oral argument, scheduled for November 4, 2014. The D.C.

Recently circulated by the United States in New York, in conjunction with the larger campaign against ISIS: a United Nations Security Council (UNSC) draft resolution aiming to reduce the rising threat po...

The Department of Justice recently released two Office of Legal Counsel opinions by Lawfare's own Jack Goldsmith from 2004. The first memo provides a lengthy and at times heavily-redacted justification f...

In a summary order yesterday, a panel of the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal by EDNY Judge Dora Irizarry of an Alien Tort Statute suit against two former directors of the Pakistani Inter-Services I...

There are two new NSA email metadata collection program documents on the DNI's Tumblr site, IContheRecord. From the site: Following a declassification review by the Executive Branch, the Department of ...