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To our more devoted readers: blogging will be on the lighter side today because Ben and Bobby are speaking at the Defense Department's 8th Annual Worldwide Detainee Conference. Do not fear though--things...
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...was, of course, Guy Fawkes, who entered in 1605 with the intention of blowing the place up, along with King James I.
Today, November 5, is Guy Fawkes Day--a holiday we don't celebrate in the United S...
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Lots of stuff before the weekend.
Kimberly Dozier of the Associated Press reports that the CIA is following "Facebook, newspapers, TV news channels, local radio stations, Internet chat rooms--anything o...
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As Bobby notes, Charlie Savage reports that the Obama administration disregarded a congressional statute that banned (through a spending condition) certain activities of the Office of Science and Technol...
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Charlie Savage reported yesterday that OLC has issued an opinion (available here) concluding that Congress exercised its spending power in an unconstitutional manner when it purported to bar the White Ho...
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Yesterday the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive of the DNI released a Report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace. The Report explained in general terms w...
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Following up on my last post regarding section 1031 of the NDAA FY 12 and the future of detention authority, I want to draw attention to what strikes me as a huge and looming issue--but one that is getti...
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On his new blog, The Loyal Opposition, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal has this post arguing that "One particularly compelling reason [not to use military commissions] is that tribu...
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In a post on the American Constitution Society's blog, Steve Vladeck takes aim at section 1031 of the Senate version of the NDAA FY '12, which concerns detention authority under the 9/18/01 AUMF. If you'...
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My old friend Alejandro Manevich, now an attorney in Toronto, writes in with the following on today's development in the extradition case of Abdullah Khadr:
I thought your readers may be interested in th...
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According to Noah Rosenberg of the New York Times, Viktor Bout, a high-profile Russian terrorist who became known as the "Merchant of Death," was found guilty in NY federal district court of a raft of cr...
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A while back I posted on the fact that the State Department has not formally designated the Haqqani Network as a whole to be a foreign terrorist organization, which among other things precludes applicati...
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Nine lawyers representing high-value Guantanamo Bay detainees set to be tried in military commissions are objecting to a new policy monitoring all correspondence between them and their clients on the gro...
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From the invaluable Steven Aftergood over at Secrecy News:
For the first time in more than a decade, the total U.S.
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Last week I noted that al-Nashiri has moved for an order compelling the government to state whether it would remand him to military detention for the duration of hostilities in the event of an acquittal....
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The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions of several members of the group referred to in the media variously as the “Miami 7,” the “Liberty City 7,” or the “Seas of David.” The men were convicte...
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Dramatic news out of Atlanta yesterday, as federal prosecutors announced the arrest of members of a "fringe militia group" charged with conspiring to carry out an array of terrorist attacks on government...
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The full Seventh Circuit has granted the government’s motion to rehear en banc Vance v. Rumsfeld, a suit by two U.S. citizens alleging that they were detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has released Judge Royce Lamberth's opinion on remand in Warafi. Judge Lamberth first denied Makhtar Al-Warafi’s habeas petition some time back, but t...
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Be careful what you tweet, all you political dissidents. The Department of Homeland Security has begun "developing guidelines for culling intelligence from social media networks" after the events of the...
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