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Wednesday on the Senate floor, three senators spoke about the Obama administration's decision to prosecute, in a federal court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Re...
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Pretty big decision by the D.C. Circuit this morning, reversing the district court's dismissal of the ACLU's drone-related FOIA suit against the CIA on the ground that the Agency's "Glomar response" was ...
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Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting:
A group has posted audio online of Bradley Manning’s speech to a military court in Fort Meade explaining his decision to release classified military information to...
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As Ritika notes below, the United States has captured a senior al Qaeda figure (Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden), and will be bringing him to the United States for prosecut...
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Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ...
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In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies se...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following comments on yesterday's Clapper decision:
The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International reads at fi...
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As Wells reported, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA this morning.
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I have posted previously about a criminal investigation in Poland targeting the former head of Poland's intelligence service, based on his alleged cooperation in establishing a CIA black site on Polish t...
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Here are two new studies coming from the Congressional Research Service (h/t Federation of American Scientists' Secrecy News) that may be of interest to Lawfare readers.
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I'm not a big fan of the law review article as a form. But every now and then, one comes along that is genuinely important, that sheds new and interesting light on an important issue, that cuts through t...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department national security official, writes in with the following thoughts on the FISA Court and its lessons for ...