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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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A government contractor steals tens of thousands of highly-sensitive communications intercepts. The communications have national security implications, yes, but put that aside for now. They also involve ...
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Today, counsel for the United States asked the Court of Military Commission Review ("CMCR") to bat away Omar Khadr's recent effort to lift the stay of his appeal to that court, and to have his guilty ple...
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The Associated Press reported yesterday that Israel arrested six Jewish suspects on Sunday for the murder of Mohammed Abu Khdeir, a Palestinian teenager who was burned alive last week. The horrific atta...
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Have a look at this emergency motion for a temporary restraining order, filed Thursday by attorneys for Guantanamo detainee Imad Hassan.
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The Washington Post has a dramatic new NSA story today, one that is qualitatively different from any of the previous Edward Snowden revelations.
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Editor’s Note: The conquest of Mosul and other cities in Iraq by the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) has alarmed the United States and its allies and electrified the Sunni jihadist community. On M...
