The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has a fascinating story about Guantanamo detainees violating the Ramadan fast rules: With the vast majority of the prisoners at Guantánamo now marking their 10th Ramada...

They stop mad scientists plotting evil.

Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting: The Justice Department is warning a federal appeals court not to disclose classified information about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program...

Back in June, I posted the appeal of Jose Padilla and his mother in a civil case against a group of current and former Defense Department officials.

Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source for...

I have only had a chance to skim this lengthy opinion by U.S. District Judge James Gwin allowing a suit against Don Rumsfeld and others to proceed  on some counts. But it appears to allege quite remarkab...

Over at the Long War Journal, Thomas Joscelyn--with whom Bobby and I have lately been sparring on Guantanamo transfers--has an interesting piece on the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Al Alwi.

The Washington Post's Ellen Nakashima is reporting: A leading computer security firm has used logs produced by a single server to trace the hacking of more than 70 corporations and government organizati...

Josh Gerstein at the Politico is reporting: The Obama administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to seek dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by Muslims who claim that the FBI conducted swe...

Yesterday's government win before Judge Kennedy and the D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in Al Alwi require an update to the habeas numbers, which are now as follows: Uighur cases in which detention was dee...

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick has posted excerpts from the Aspen Security Forum event to which I linked on Sunday.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). There is no unclassified opinion yet. We will post it as soon as it b...

Last Friday, a British appellate court -- the England and Wales High Court -- issued an unusual decision that creates a further chink in the immunity of foreign government officials from criminal prosecu...

Those who enjoyed this post on Benjamin Franklin or this one on Robert Jackson but who don't enjoy this photo, shot on Friday in Rock Creek Park in Washington DC, deserve none of them.

Nicholas Schmidle has a piece up at the New Yorker providing the most detailed account I've yet seen of the raid that killed bin Laden.  It's a gripping read, obviously very well informed by JSOC sources...

Check out the composition of this panel--which must of stressed all of Dahlia Lithwick's copious social skills to keep civil. I haven't watched it yet, but I thought I would flag it for interested reade...