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Today's Headlines and Commentary
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... -
A New Judge In Al-Nashiri's Military Commission
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... -
Interesting New Habeas Argument in the D.C. Circuit
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... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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... -
DOJ Releases Three Redacted FISC Telephone Metadata Orders
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... -
Civil Liberties Groups Write to White House, Express Concerns Over Intercept Story on NSA & FBI Surveillance
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... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
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... -
DNI and DOJ on Today's Intercept Story
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... -
Snowden and Civil Liberties: A Brief Follow-Up
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... -
On Glenn Greenwald's Latest
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... -
Steptoe Cyberlaw Podcast, Episode #27: An Interview with David Heyman
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... -
Exporting the Preemptive Prosecution Model: AG Holder on Countering the Syrian Foreign Fighter Threat
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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