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You've probable already heard the news. But here's the video:
From NBS News:
The X-47B drone made history Wednesday as the first robot to land itself on the moving flight deck of an aircraft carrier at...
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It already had been quite a week in the GTMO habeas world.
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A friend of mine at the Homeland Security Institute recently called my attention to this fascinating article in the Atlantic. The article reveals nascent plans by CBP and the Border Patrol to equip dome...
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Speaking of military commissions, when was the last time you looked at the Office of Military Commissions court calendar?
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We interrupt our regularly scheduled Snowden coverage, and commence instead with some important legislative activity that might otherwise have gone under the radar: the Senate Committee on Agriculture, N...
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Get it here. My personal prediction: The only chance the government has of prevailing before the court is if the judges conclude that Ali Hamza Al Bahlul has not willingly filed an appeal. The government...
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I've been waiting for a while for a detainee to make this argument: The transfer provisions of the NDAA violate the Commander in Chief clause.
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An Irish court rules on the subject---in response to U.S. requests for extradition help. The opinion is actually an interesting window into U.S. efforts to get countries to impede Snowden's travel. Botto...
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This strikes me as a big deal---a big shift in public attitudes on civil liberties and counter-terrorism. A new Quinnipiac poll shows a majority of Americans describing Edward Snowden as a whistle-blower...
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On Tuesday, Saudi Arabia and the UAE showed their support for the ouster of Muslim Brotherhood President Mohamed Morsi, and the army's new grip on power, by presenting Egypt with eight billion dollars in...
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The Boston Bombing suspect, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, pleaded not guilty today. Here's the Boston Globe.
Yesterday President Obama's FBI Director nominee James Comey testified before the Senate Judiciary Commi...
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Wells blogged on Monday about EPIC's new original filing in the Supreme Court, seeking mandamus, prohibition, or certiorari from the Justices to review Judge Vinson's now-leaked FISA Court order with reg...
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It's the first morning of Ramadan---a little after 5:30. For the first time I can remember, I hear birds in Cairo, loud chattering ones that persist despite the city's inhospitality to wildlife.
I am se...
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Last night, President Obama nominated Tom Malinowski, the director of Human Rights Watch's Washington office, to be Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy Human Rights and Labor, succeeding Michael P...
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Let’s begin with news of Edward Snowden, because you don’t hear enough about him. Glenn Greenwald and Laura Poitras of the Guardian have a two part interview with him about his motives and about his thou...
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Earlier today I linked to Walter Pincus' assessment of the Snowden affair. I now have Glenn Greenwald's response. Here's some of what he had to say:
Apparently, some establishment journalists have de...
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It was a terrible day by 6 am Monday morning, and it has been getting worse all day. What we know: 51 people died from gunshot wounds that they sustained outside the Republican guard facility, and 435 ot...
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Walter Pincus of the Washington Post has an excellent analysis today in is "Fine Print" column. Though he has been portrayed as a classic "Lone Wolf, it appears likely that Snowden actually had support ...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Professor Orin Kerr has a thought-provoking post on one route to reform of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court: have Congress give an adversarial role to the Oversi...
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The Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC"), an advocacy and litigation group, today petitioned for a writ of mandamus or prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, in the Supreme Court. The filing's ...
