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...

The indictment in United States v. Abdo, alleging a plot to bomb a restaurant in the Killeen area frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, is available here.

The UK Human Rights Blog has this analysis of the British government's detainee inquiry, which is just getting off the ground.

The Onion has the story: WASHINGTON—In a 30-minute video released Thursday, al- Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri criticized the mass transportation infrastructure of the United States, claiming significant...

Two weeks ago, I posted a short piece--which grew out of a paper I am writing on the relationship between liberty and security--concerning what Ben Franklin really meant when he said that “Those who woul...