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Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case. He has asked us to share the followi...
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Orin Kerr is always worth reading, above all on Fourth Amendment issues. He has a very interesting piece up tonight on a recent decision by a magistrate judge weighing in on the question of whether the ...
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Paul Starobin, whose New York Times piece this weekend was the subject of these earlier thoughts, writes in with the following response:
I agree with Benjamin Wittes that there is an important, even a vi...
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Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...
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As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...
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Sneek Peak: The New York Times this weekend published this adaptation of Eric Schmitt's and Thom Shanker's forthcoming book, "Counterstrike: The Untold Story of America's Secret Campaign Against Al Qaeda...
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U.S. involvement in Mexico's struggle against violent drug-trafficking organizations has deepened recently, according to Ginger Thompson's piece in the New York Times today:
When violence spiked last yea...
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Paul Starobin has a piece in the New York Times pondering the flip-flop of Harold Koh on war powers:
During the Bush administration, he was legendary for his piercing criticisms of “executive muscle flex...
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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...
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They stop mad scientists plotting evil.
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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...
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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.
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News has been light the last few days.
Lawyers for Guantanamo detainees as well as British activists are boycotting the British government's inquiry into alleged torture.
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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...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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While the compromise on the debt ceiling has dominated the news over the last few days, there has been a lot of coverage of interest too.
As Ben noted here, the Obama administration invoked the state se...
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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...
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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...
