John Kiriakou was previously arrested, and charged via criminal complaint, on grounds relating to disclosure of classified information.  He has now been indicted (here).  I believe the charges are the sa...

In Today's Headlines and Commentaries, Raffaela notes the controversy in Britain that has erupted over the possibility of using secret evidence in certain civil cases. Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Ad...

Just about every player in connection with the President’s remarks about the Supreme Court seem to me to be acting oddly or imprudently. What a terrible idea for the President to charge the Supreme Cour...

Jack was on the Daily Show with Jon Stewart last night. Here's the video:

From over at Volokh. Kerr also links to this piece in the Washington Post by Charles Lane.

Yes, yes, I know: Jack was on the Daily Show last night--and I wasn't. We'll have video up as soon as it's available. In the meantime, here's an interview Jack did with my old colleague Dan Klaidman, wit...

So reports the Washington Post . . . UPDATE [5:17 p.m]: the referred charges in the capital case against KSM and his co-defendants include, among other things, conspiracy and attacking civilians.  The c...

I've gotten a number of interesting responses to my post from earlier today on Virginia's proposed law forbidding state cooperation with NDAA-related detention activity that might impact citizens.

For months everyone watching as cyber legislation moved on Capitol Hill has been sure of only one thing -- that the main action was in the Senate where the basic outlines of any legislative deal would be...

I've been doing my best to ignore to the hysterical, paranoid, delusional howls of rage on both the Right and the Left about the NDAA, but they are starting to reach critical mass in a way that one ignor...

Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, writes in about the continued need for control orders in the UK and why the criminal justice system will never be entirely satisfac...

Prosecutors at the ICC have determined that they lack jurisdiction to investigate crimes allegedly committed in Gaza, reasoning that Palestine does not constitute a "state" for purposes of Article 12 of ...

Transfer of the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP) from American to Afghan control has begun.  The first step?  Appointment of Maj. Gen.