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President Obama, in his NDU speech last year, stated: “[T]his war, like all wars, must end. That’s what history advises. That’s what our democracy demands.”
Attorney General Holder, in a conversation ...
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Editor's Note: The United States has been at war since 9/11, but the nature of the enemy remains unclear. Some would say the war is against terrorists of all stripes, while others focus more narrowly on ...
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As the election crisis in Afghanistan comes to a head, all eyes---or some of them, anyway---are once again on the future of Afghan democracy. But the United States's history in the region extends back mu...
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Two articles based on the cache of documents leaked by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden were published this week. On Sunday, Barton Gellman, Julie Tate, and Ashkan Soltani of the Washington Post reve...
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I'm hearing that the Senate Judiciary Committee is getting ready to consider S.2520, which contains a series of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act. I haven't studied the bill yet, but it appear...
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We begin with Israel. The Associated Press reports that its military has “dramatically escalated its aerial assault targeting hundreds of Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip.” Per Al Jazeera, the death toll no...
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According to a detailing memorandum issued yesterday (and this piece in the Miami Herald) the new military judge for Al-Nashiri's military commission will be Air Force Col. Vance Spath.
The prior milita...
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This case has been kicking around the district court for a while, but has now made it to the D.C. Circuit. Ahmed Adnan Ajam is basically arguing that the executive branch wants to release him and the tra...
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The conflict between Israelis and Palestinians continues. Members of the U.N. Security Council meet today to discuss the ongoing situation. Reuters has details.
Yesterday, Hamas began launching newer, m...
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From the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's Tumblr site, we learn today that on Tuesday, the Department of Justice released three redacted primary orders of the Foreign Intelligence Survei...
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In response to today's Intercept story on NSA and FBI surveillance of Muslim Americans, a large coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups have written to the White House---and, among other thi...
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In the Intercept today, Glenn Greenwald and Murtaza Hussein published a long-awaited piece on the surveillance of Muslim Americans by the NSA and FBI. In response, the Department of Justice and the Offic...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Justice Department together said this today, apparently in response to an earlier Intercept story on FBI and NSA surveillance of Muslim America...
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Yesterday, I posted a short piece saying that we should think about Edward Snowden's leak of large volumes of personal communications to the Washington Post as a significant civil liberties violation. In...
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After a huge amount of pre-publication hype, Glenn Greenwald's new capstone NSA story is out, and I find myself with little to say about it.
Greenwald has gotten his hands on a spreadsheet listing the e...
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Our guest this week is David Heyman, who recently completed a tour as DHS’s Assistant Secretary for Policy (my old job). David has had a long and productive career in homeland security, in government, a...
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Attorney General Holder gave an important speech in Oslo today, highlighting the threat posed by "foreign fighters" in Syria who may one day return to Europe or the United States. He advocated a four-pr...
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At today’s brief status hearing for Ahmed Abu Khattala, U.S. District Court Judge Christopher Cooper set September 9 as the date for the case's next status hearing, and ruled to exclude the time until th...
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Yesterday, Jane caught us up on the tensions between Israel and Palestine, in the wake of the brutal killing of a Palestinian teenager. Today, the New York Times reports that Israel "began an intensive a...
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China hacks DC Think Tanks. "Middle East experts at major U.S.
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