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When President Obama signed the NDAA of 2014 yesterday, the Act did not include the amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act, about which I posted earlier this month that would have allowed suits by non-US na...
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President Obama signed the Bipartisan Budget Act and the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act yesterday. The Budget Act restores billions in discretionary funding to the Defense Department and include...
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In response to the government's brief, counsel for the Plaintiffs in Al Laithi v. Rumsfeld et. al. filed a reply brief on Dec. 18th. (The Plaintiffs---all former Guantanamo detainees---allege various a...
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Evgeny Morosov has an interesting piece in the FT that asks about the broader and mostly ignored implications of Snowden’s revelations about the scope of NSA surveillance. He argues that controlling the...
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The second day of Christmas has brought glad tidings for two defendants in the longest-running of all major ATS cases: earlier today, Judge Scheindlin dismissed the last two foreign corporate defendants ...
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The president's statement today upon signing the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act focuses almost exclusively on the provisions related to the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.
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We're back! Although we took a short holiday break, the national security world certainly did not, so we begin with the week's international news:
The United States is sending drones and equipment to Ir...
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With the release of the Report and Recommendations of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies reporters and commentators have scrambled to make sense of the 308 pages...
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After suggesting general reforms to both 215 collection and national security letters, the Review Group then turns to the subject of bulk metadata.
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The report of the President’s Review Group on NSA matters has already received widespread attention, some of it high altitude, some of it more granular. It’s an ambitious document, both conceptually and ...
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Published by W.W. Norton (2014)
Reviewed by Bruce Riedel
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From the Financial Times:
Apology to His Excellency Sheikh Khalid bin Ahmed al Khalifa
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The President Review Group's ("PRG") Report, released last week, makes nearly four-dozen individual recommendations related to foreign intelligence surveillance, privacy, civil liberties oversight respon...
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This Christmas Eve opinion, authored by Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson for a three-judge panel composed of Judge Thomas B. Griffith and Senior Circuit Judge Stephen F. Williams, affirms the distri...
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...will be taking the day off today and tomorrow for Christmas. Happy holidays to all!
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On December 19, a panel of the Ninth Circuit issued a brief order in the long-running Doe v. Nestle case, vacating a September 2010 district court decision dismissing ATS and TVPA claims brought by natio...
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Marty Lederman has a good summary of the highlights of the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies at Just Security. And he and David Cole have a lengthy post on what th...
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On Saturday, I posted this piece in response to a particularly slimy blog post on The Nation's web site. The post dealt with Lawfare's relationship with the New Republic and the sponsorship of our joint ...
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At the heart of this month's NSA Mini-Trove are the government's most recent explanations of its now narrower claims of secrecy in two long-pending lawsuits---Jewel v. NSA and Shubert v. Obama---the narr...
