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Over at USA Today, Kevin Johnson writes on the details coming to light about Amine El Khalifi, who was arrested last Friday for plotting to bomb the Capitol.
A U.S. District Court Judge in the Northern ...
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Ben's two questions in response to my post yesterday on the D.C.
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Steve is quite right that yesterday's decision in Al Zahrani is no surprise.
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Apologies for the delay on this post today. It was in every sense Ben's fault.
Protests have erupted at Bagram over NATO personnel who disposed of Korans by burning them.
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Here is your moment of Not-Zen for the day (with thanks to my student Daniel). (With apologies to the senior editors of Lawfare for momentarily lowering the tone.)
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With the Supreme Court scheduled to hear arguments over corporate liability in the Alien Tort Statute later this month, this short book chapter makes for a good, useful read. Dr. Eric De Brabandere is a...
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Given Ben's report on the oral argument, today's fairly cryptic D.C. Circuit opinion in al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, throwing out a damages suit arising out of the deaths of several inmates at Guantanamo, is...
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Joel Brenner, who served as inspector general of the National Security Agency and as the national counterintelligence executive in the DNI's office, joined Jack the other day to discuss his new book, Ame...
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In his NYT column today, Bill Keller argues that Wikileaks “was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transpar...
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Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration filed a cert. petition in Clapper v.
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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...
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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...
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Two days ago, I posted video and audio of a Brookings Campaign 2012 event on policy towards Afghanistan and Pakistan in the next administration. The event featured a paper entitled, “Maximizing Chances f...
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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...
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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...
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[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...
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In breaking news, the Washington Post reports that authorities have arrested a Moroccan gentleman by the name of Amine el-Khalifi for planning a suicide bombing on the U.S. Capitol. Undercover FBI agents...
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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...
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The Senate is currently holding hearings on the upcoming cybersecurity bill. You can watch the live feed here.
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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...
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