Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood writes: The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War ...

Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine has a lengthy profile on the magazine's web site of William Welch, who is the Justice Department's point man on leaks cases.

A dramatic announcement just now from the Justice Department, concerning the outcome of the Durham Investigation into CIA interrogation practices.  It is unclear from the context whether that investigati...

The appellant's brief in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States is now public. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seeking to reverse the Judge Colleen Kollar Kotelly...

The appellant's reply brief is now available for Suleiman v. Obama. Petitioner Abdulrahman Suleiman challenges Judge Reggie Walton’s July 2010 decision denying him the writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant's brief in the case al-Zahrani et al. v. Donald Rumsfeld is now available. This case relates to the reported suicides at Guantanano in 2006, the conspiracy theories about which Ben wrote he...

No, it's not a Mel Brooks-Carl Reiner routine.

ABC News (among other sources) reports: In a new video message released on the internet Friday, American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man...

Last week I posted about the views of some in Congress who are upset that the government might not employ the military commission system to prosecute certain offenses committed in Iraq.  I noted that the...

The appellant's brief and government's brief are now available for Suleiman v. Obama, one of the Guantanamo habeas cases currently before the D.C. Circuit Court.

The public version of Shawali Khan’s reply brief in Khan v. Obama (No. 10-5306), a Guantanamo habeas case currently pending before the D.C. Circuit, is now available.

CNN has posted the English text of the Al Qaeda statement on Osama Bin Laden's death. It's worth a read. The Arabic original is available here.