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It’s the final episode of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—our special series of podcast interviews we've been running this week with senior NSA officials.
In the fift...
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While the Report of the President’s Review Group (see Ritika’s post here and Ben’s here) has already generated classic Washington-style buzz because of its criticism of the NSA’s bulk collection of metad...
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This latest pair of repatriations brings the total number of detainees transferred to eight in 2013. Noor Uthman Muhammed pleaded guilty in a military commission in 2011, and has since completed his sent...
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The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation issued a report yesterday on the data broker industry. The Committee looked into nine of the biggest brokers, and took testimony from various ...
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Earlier this week, Military Judge James Pohl, the presiding judge at the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al, issued three orders that relate to secrecy in the military commissions. ...
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The military judge ascends the bench at Guantanamo; our proceedings resume, with Walid Bin Attash and Mustafa Al-Hawsawi having absented themselves. Did they do so voluntarily? Yes, according to the pr...
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It's Thursday here at Fort Meade's little CCTV hovel---from which a skeleton crew will observe, remotely and in nearly real time, pre-trial motions proceedings in the 9/11 case.
Look for dispatches thro...
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It’s Day 4 of “Inside NSA: We Brought in a Recording Device So You Don’t Have To”—the special series of podcast interviews we've been running this week with senior NSA officials.
In our penultimate epis...
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The Washington Post had an important story yesterday involving the future of the 53 military detainees who remain in U.S.
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The appellants in Aamer v. Obama have spent the last month battling the government for a complete copy of recently revised Guantanamo force-feeding protocols, according to a motion filed by the detainees...
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We’re back. What’s next?
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In the coming days, I am certain we will see a lot of substantive commentary on the just-released report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Liberty and Secur...
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The Report and Recommendations of the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies has been released. The panel consists of the following members:
Richard A. Clarke
Michael J...
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The curtain is raised once more. Applause surges rapidly at the Smallwood CCTV hovel and then dies down just as rapidly, as lunch comes to an end. Counsel is Mustafa Al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, Walter Ruiz. H...
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Last night Jack highlighted certain parts of Caroline Krass's answers to the Additional Prehearing Questions that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence posed to her.
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Let's begin with news of that well-dressed albatross around President Obama's neck: you know, Hamid Karzai. He met with Iraqi foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari, who told him to, in a phrase, knock it off a...
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Obviously, there's a lot to say about Monday's decision by Judge Leon granting a preliminary injunction against the NSA's telephone metadata program and then staying that decision pending appeal.
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Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings. The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.
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Game on. The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench. Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi. That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...
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Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote: “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines." His point was that only small-minded men refused to re...
