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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 ...
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A pretty strong signal from Judge Gladys Kessler, who today rejected GTMO detainee Jihad Dhiab's motion for a preliminary injunction to stop force feeding.
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I’m back! I missed you terribly, dear readers, while I was busy eating home-cooked food. And fear not, I won't be going anywhere for some time. A big round of applause goes to Raffaela for steering the ...
