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War or Crime? Figure it Out
In the Clinton Administration, I participated in vigorous debates about whether to treat transnational threats, such as terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, as law enforcement or intelligence and w... -
FBI Director James Comey's Remarks at International Conference on Cyber Security
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey delivered a speech entitled "Addressing the Cyber Security Threat" at the International Conference on Cyber Security at Fordham University. During the speech, Directo... -
FBI Director James Comey's Remarks Today
I have been unable to find video or audio of FBI Director James Comey's remarks today adding to his prior attribution of the Sony hack to North Korea. Nor has the FBI itself released the text. That said,... -
Help An Elementary School Find Its Lost Drone
It seems Chesterbrook Elementary, of Fairfax County, Virginia, has lost its drone---and now wishes to enlist the help of the community in locating it. Such is the gist of the below email, sent by a scho... -
Obstacles Loom for States' Proposed "Fourth Amendment Protection" Laws
Legislators in several states have proposed bills over the past year intended to hamper the NSA’s efforts to collect signals intelligence. In Utah, the site of a large NSA data center, a proposed bill w... -
Cliff Sloan on Closing Guantanamo
Worth flagging: yesterday's New York Times opinion piece, which was published in the wake of Sloan's departure from the State Department last month. -
Senator Feinstein on Anti-Torture Reforms
On December 30, the outgoing Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Dianne Feinstein, sent a letter to the White House. The document---which was released earlier today---overvi... -
Coverage of Al-Nashiri’s Arraignment: Motions Hearing Part 3
At last, you have reached the final post in Lawfare’s coverage of the motions hearing portion of Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri’s arraignment. -
Five More GTMO Transfers
The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan. The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the... -
Two Basic Problems With Abstention in <em>Nashiri</em>
Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C. -
DDC Won't Halt Al-Nashiri's Military Commission at GTMO
Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C. -
Recreating Old Loopholes: Thoughts on the Revised Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement
Earlier this month, the Justice Department issued revised Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Ide...
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