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On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a group of journalists. The sessions were focused on national security legal issues and the work of H...
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On Monday, accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev filed his reply to the government's response to his motion to vacate special administrative measures (SAMs) imposed on him and his attorneys.
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I was on the same panel as Orin at Monday's day-long hearing before the Privacy & Civil Liberties Oversight Board, and think there's a lot to commend his proposal for a statutory rule of lenity as a tool...
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The Russian Foreign Ministry announced this morning that the main Syrian opposition group has refused to participate in talks with the Syrian government that would have taken place in Moscow.
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As Raff noted earlier this week, the Supreme Court heard oral argument on Tuesday in the strange case of Bond v United States, in which a Pennsylvania woman, Carol Anne Bond, was convicted under a federa...
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In Hatim v. Obama, a.k.a. the Guantanamo "counsel access case," the government's reply brief has been submitted, and the D.C. Circuit has slated the case for oral argument on Monday, December 9.
We've c...
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The President has just nominated Caroline Krass to be General Counsel of the CIA, to succeed Stephen Preston.
Although late in coming, this is an excellent appointment. Caroline is currently the Princ...
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Today David Miranda, partner of Glenn Greenwald, was back at the Royal Courts of Justice to continue his suit against the home secretary and the Metropolitan police commissioner for his eight-hour, 55-mi...
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The NSA isn't the only organization interested in metadata. The CIA pays AT&T more than $10 million per year to access its vast database of phone records---which the phone company has voluntarily agreed ...
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Today, the Federal Aviation Administration released two key documents bearing on the coming integration, on a broad scale, of drones into our national airspace.
One is the so-called "Roadmap," a forward...
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As I’ve discussed previously, I am finishing a forthcoming paper on constitutional war powers and “The Power to Threaten War.” In the meantime, the Yale Law Journal Online has published my essay, drawin...
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In August 2012, thanks to YouGov, I launched my first national survey to probe more deeply about what Americans know about intelligence agencies, what they think about controversial intelligence programs...
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The legislation, which the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday approved by a 13-2 vote, can be found here. The Committee's press release sums up the bill and can be found here.
There's al...
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Charles "Cully" Stimson of the Heritage Foundation writes in with these thoughts on a report Heritage has released on sexual assault in the military:
In the spirit of keeping national security law devote...
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Again, we learn of a key commissions ruling in the 9/11 case, without having the ruling itself. And again, we learn of it from 9/11 defense lawyer James Connell III. Here is his second statement (whic...
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So we learn from James Connell III, an attorney for 9/11 accused Ammar al-Baluchi.
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On October 25, the Hoover Institution held a day-long media colloquium out at Stanford University for a first-rate group of journalists focused on national security legal issues and the work of Hoover’s ...
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Despite talks in the White House, in Congress and abroad about reining in the NSA data collection program, the Times reports that the Obama administration, for now, has “concluded that there is no workab...
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Okay, guys, I know that Guy Fawkes tried to blow up King James I, but launching fireworks at Buckingham Palace to celebrate Guy Fawkes Day? Very uncool.
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It’s no accident that ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s trial happened in a place called the Fifth Settlement, which was, until ten years ago, in the middle of the desert. Parts of it fit that description...
