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Now available on the military commissions docket: this motion, filed earlier this week by a coalition of media organizations as "press intervenors." In the just-unsealed filing, the group--which includ...
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A few weeks ago I posed the following questions in relation to the Constitution Project's report on state and major urban area intelligence Fusion Centers, which DHS set up and funded after 9/11:
One rea...
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Earlier today I argued that a Romney administration would not pursue significantly different counterterrorism policies than a second Obama administration. Below I note three caveats to this claim, and I...
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Further to Bobby's and my posts on news reports of US government discussions around ways to address groups such as AQIM taking root in Africa - including discussion of US military and intelligence advise...
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Today marks the five-month anniversary of the oral arguments before the D.C. Circuit in United States v.
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Last week Ben argued that, despite the Romney Team memo on interrogation and Romney’s promise to use “enhanced” interrogation techniques, a President Romney would not change the Obama interrogation polic...
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I am keenly aware, as I acknowledged Monday, that I still owe Gabor Rona a response to his legal arguments. My initial response to his post took on only those aspects of his argument that imagined an Ame...
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This is a big deal.
The district court (in the person of Judge Edward Lodge of the District of Idaho) has entered partial summary judgment for the plaintiffs in Al-Kidd v.
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H/T to Charlie Savage for sharing the latest---doubtless unofficial---Obama bumper sticker:
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Bobby posted a day ago about an important Wall Street Journal news story talking about the US government considering options for pursuing an increasing active and dangerous branch-franchise-affiliate of ...
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The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has has just stayed Judge Katherine Forrest's decision in Hedges:
For the following reasons, we conclude that the public interest weighs in favor of granting the gover...
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Last Friday, in an interview, Secretary Janet Napolitano admitted that she never, ever used email. The Internet cognoscenti are shocked. They think it either means that she knows that the Internet is n...
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The D.C. Circuit has handed down procedural orders in two Guantanamo detention cases.
The first grants a joint motion regarding Friday's oral argument in Khairkhwa v. Obama. The argument session will b...
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Now this is interesting: an amicus brief by retired military admirals and generals, on behalf of the appellant in Nashiri v.
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Anyone following these issues closely or interested in Harold Koh's address last month on international law and cyberattacks should read Adam Segal's commentary on China's view of the issues. Adam discu...
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The Kiobel v.
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The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Kiobel yesterday, and here is SCOTUSblog's roundup of coverage:
In Kiobel, the Justices considered whether corporations can be sued under the Alien Tort Statute ...
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Beware shoppers: All illegal to fly in the Washington Flight Restricted Zone, says the FAA.
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This article in the Wall Street Journal, by Julian Barnes and Siobhan Gorman, draws attention to US government plans to ramp up counterterrorism efforts in Libya, including in particular efforts targetin...
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Earlier this week, Judge James Pohl issued a new docketing order in U.S. v. Mohammed et al. Some twenty-five motions will be under consideration at the commission's next session, which will commence o...
