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Slate magazine has a big scoop this week; it has published excerpts from a lengthy, 466-page memoir by Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, released by Slahi's lawyers. In the Slate package, Slahi d...
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While we are on the subject of Mark Mazzetti’s The Way of the Knife, and for that matter while we are speaking of Mali, check out this Washington Post report on U.S.
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What is happening in Mali to people who are captured rather than killed by French, Chadian, or Malian forces? I asked this in February, but so far as I know the question remains unanswered in the public...
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Speaking of a strange meeting of the minds over the President's press conference remarks, Dana Milbank and Maureen Dowd had basically the same reaction to President Obama’s tetchy
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Published by Penguin Press (2013)
Reviewed by Jack Goldsmith
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Developing Boston news: three additional suspects have been taken into custody in connection with the case, according to this tweet released by the Boston Police.
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On the Sunday talk shows, various members of Congress exhorted the United States to increase its assistance to the Syrian rebels, whether by providing them with additional (lethal) equipment, or by estab...
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I had an odd meeting of the minds today---with Glenn Greenwald.
After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama's Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwal...
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I confess myself mystified by President Obama's comments about Guantanamo this morning. Here is what the President said---with the parts I find confusing bolded:
QUESTION: Mr. President, as you're probab...
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Forty Navy medics arrived at GTMO on Monday as the GTMO hunger strike population exceeded 100 detainees.
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Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunge...
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Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security?