Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration filed a cert. petition in Clapper v.

When I was younger, I didn’t like to eat my peas.  So I always put them off for last, but eventually, I’d realize that it was something I had to do and … just do it. I feel a little like that in writing...

Late last week, seven senior Republican Senators sent a letter to Majority Leader Harry Reid, complaining that the Cybersecurity Act of 2012 was being rushed through and that they had not been adequately...

The New York Times is reporting that a group of flu and public health experts at a WHO-convened meeting in Geneva have decided that the full research details will be released regarding the highly contagi...

The complaint against Amine El Khalifi is posted here.  What follows is the description from DOJ’s press release: WASHINGTON – A 29 year-old man residing in Alexandria, Va., was arrested today for all...

[Update: Mary replies to this post here.] Ben's commentary on Mary Dudziak's NYT piece has generated this reply from Mary, in which she raises several interesting questions.  As a general proposition, I...

Ritika linked yesterday to this New York Times oped by USC law professor Mary Dudziak, which opens: THE defense secretary, Leon E. Panetta, recently announced that America hoped to end its combat mission...

It's nice to know that someone is reading these posts.  I had a pleasant email from one of the Senior Democratic Aides who I spoke of in my last post.  He offered the following, which I quote with his pe...

Two days ago, I wrote about the “great cybersecurity carve out.”  My point was that the definition of critical cyber infrastructure in the newly-introduced Senate cybersecurity bill seemed to have an imp...

I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...

In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...

Over at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox of the CUNY Law School has this very interesting post on redactions in the Alsabri Guantanamo habeas case--which was decided at the District Court leve...