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Live: Herb Lin Testifies Before House Energy and Commerce Committee
Today at 2:00 pm, Lawfare's Herb Lin, along with Richard Bejtlich and Gregory Shannon, will provide testimony before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on "Understanding the Cyber Threat and Implica... -
3/3 Session #2: Housekeeping
We return from recess. What will the way forward be? The military judge mentions pending motions AE319F and G, and AE333, and AE337. In his view, Judge Spath may be able to rule on some of these witho... -
3/3 Session #1: Suppression, and SSCI Matters
Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the military judge, resumes proceedings. The question is what those proceedings will comprise, the docket having been winnowed greatly, both by yesterday’s unlawful influence... -
Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: March 3 Session
Litigation resumes in one of Guantanamo's two capital military commission cases today at 0900; likewise the CCTV broadcast of the pre-trial session, which we'll follow from our little perch here at Fort ... -
3/2 Session #3: Odds and Ends
Motion AE319J is next. In it, the defense asks to postpone the government’s bid to admit hearsay, pending the Court of Military Commission Review’s (“CMCR”) resolution of an interlocutory appeal concerni... -
3/2 Session #2: How to Do Hearsay
The lunch hour comes to a close and we go back in the record in United States v. Al-Nashiri. What’s the way forward? We wonder, given Judge Vance Spath’s prior ruling on unlawful influence, which exc... -
Happening Now: DNI James Clapper Speaks at the Council on Foreign Relations
At the top of the hour, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper, Jr. will discuss the state of the intelligence community, and outline the major challenges and successes experienced throughout... -
3/2 Session #1: Unlawful Influence
The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, ascends the bench. Our proceedings return to order. And they begin with a bang: That is, with the court partially granting defense motion AE332, regardin... -
The End of the United States' War in Afghanistan Requires Detainee's Release From GTMO
Such is this gist of this quite important Motion to Grant Petition For Writ of Habeas Corpus, filed last night by attorneys for Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi. His filing opens as foll... -
Yesterday's Abatement Order in the 9/11 Case
Yesterday, after determining Deputy Defense Secretary Robert Work's requirement that military commission judges live at Guantanamo Bay may improperly interfered with the case, Col. James Pohl halted pret... -
The U.S. Intelligence Community and Non-Neutral Principles
Last week, Ben’s NSA Constitution Day speech emerged after a long “declassification” process. One puzzle Ben grapples with in this speech is why reasonable, educated Americans have--and will continue to... -
The Moral Vacuity of The Intercept
In our new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media, my co-editors and I talk at some length about what we characterize as the "fundamental tension" that lies at the heart of news reporting today involv...
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