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Published by Oxford University Press (2012)
Reviewed by Rick Wilson
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The American and Libyan investigators can't seem to agree about the source of the attack that killed Ambassador Stevens in Libya. Dina Temple-Raston of NPR writes that the U.S. says that it was a spontan...
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Per Ben's and Bobby's responses to my post from earlier this week, I think one point needs to be made crystal clear: If Ben and Bobby are correct, then the phrase "substantial support" in the March 13 br...
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Today the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument concerning the ACLU’s FOIA request to the CIA for records related to the government’s program of targeted killing via “drones.” Cutting through the statuto...
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I'd like to expand on Ben's post below in relation to Hedges and the First Amendment, focusing on the "material support"/"substantial support" issue. (I'm having to write quickly, so please excuse any t...
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OK. I admit it. I made up the quote that is the title of this post. Senator Rockefeller never said any such thing. But he did almost as much by demonstrating (probably by accident) why industry fear ...
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The other day, in response to Raha Wala’s comments on Hedges, I promised to address the First Amendment question at the heart of Judge Forrest’s ruling---a promise that seems to have excited David Remes....
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Harold Koh, Legal Adviser to the State Department, delivered an important speech yesterday, September 18, at the U.S. Cyber Command Inter-Agency Legal Conference on the applicability of international law...
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Rajiv Chandrasekaran of The Washington Post reports that the Taliban is increasingly focusing on “conducting audacious attacks against prominent targets across the country, including the U.S.
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I attended a conference yesterday at Ft.
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Remember Nashiri v. MacDonald?
That's the civil lawsuit that Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Al-Nashiri, a defendant in a military commission case at Guantanamo, brought against Bruce MacDonald, the commi...
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Based on the voluminous media and blog coverage of last week's decision in Hedges v. Obama, in which Judge Forrest permanently enjoined at least part of the detention provision of the FY2012 NDAA [sectio...
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Chris Hedges yesterday put out this op-ed about the case bearing his name---in which, as doubtless you know by now, a district judge recently enjoined the enforcement of Section 1021(b)(2) of the NDAA. ...
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All American government employees except emergency U.S. government personnel were evacuated from Tunisia and Sudan over the weekend, writes the Washington Post. The Post also says that negotiations on U.S.
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Circuit judge Raymond Lohier has granted the Justice Department's request for an interim stay of the permanent injunction in Hedges, pending the Second Circuit's consideration of the government's motion ...
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Obaydullah, a Guantanamo detainee, today asked the D.C. Circuit to take up his case once more.
A three judge panel of that court earlier affirmed the denial of Obaydullah's petition for a writ of habeas...
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Here is the letter sent today from the White House (courtesy of John Brennan) to Senator Rockefeller. It begins:
The executive branch national security team - including civilian, military and intelligen...
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More on the government's ongoing effort to stay the district court's entry of permanent injunctive relief in Hedges v. Obama: it appears that the government's initial motion before Judge Forrest was for ...
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Lots going on in our favorite region of the world.
The Taliban launched an attack on a NATO base in Helmand Province in Afghanistan over the weekend, destroying eight fighter jets and killing two Marine...
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On September 7, the Justice Department filed a Suggestion of Immunity on behalf of former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo in a suit against Zedillo under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Prote...
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