Circuit judge Raymond Lohier has granted the Justice Department's request for an interim stay of the permanent injunction in Hedges, pending the Second Circuit's consideration of the government's motion ...

Obaydullah, a Guantanamo detainee, today asked the D.C. Circuit to take up his case once more. A three judge panel of that court earlier affirmed the denial of Obaydullah's petition for a writ of habeas...

Here is the letter sent today from the White House (courtesy of John Brennan) to Senator Rockefeller.  It begins: The executive branch national security team - including civilian, military and intelligen...

More on the government's ongoing effort to stay the district court's entry of permanent injunctive relief in Hedges v. Obama: it appears that the government's initial motion before Judge Forrest was for ...

On September 7, the Justice Department filed a Suggestion of Immunity on behalf of former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo in a suit against Zedillo under the Alien Tort Statute and Torture Victim Prote...

Several weeks ago I noted that Iran had announced its intention to sue the developers of the Stuxnet virus.  As I said, it was an almost perfect Lawfare type question -- in what court? under what theorie...

This piece on Foreign Policy's website highlights a topic that is growing increasingly significant, yet gets little attention:  private sector entities conducting retaliatory or even anticipatory hacks a...

That's the read out from yesterday, in the Hedges case. Here's the government's interim request to Judge Forrest, to stay her permanent injunction during the government's appeal to the Second Circuit.

Last week, Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts described the leaked draft Executive Order on Cybersecurity (which he had not seen) as "focused."  Maybe so, but at 19 pages it seems rather less so to me.  ...