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Comments on the Arrested Doctor in Pakistan
A senior government lawyer writes in with the following thought on the Pakistani sentencing of Dr. Shakil Afridi, the doctor who helped the CIA locate Osama Bin Laden: -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
A U.S. Airways flight from Paris to North Carolina was diverted to Bangor, Maine, after a French passenger gave a flight attendant a note saying that she had a surgically implanted device. The whole affa... -
Federal Court Evidence in the 9/11 Defendants' Military Commission?
Something to mull, while Judge Pohl ponders severance in the 9/11 case: whether the government’s evidence in the still-far-off-in-the-future military commission trial (or trials) also could be admitted i... -
Show Cause Order In the 9/11 Case Now Available
We reported last Friday on an order in United States v. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
More news from the NATO summit: Alliance leaders have formally agreed to a withdrawal from Afghanistan by 2014, reports the New York Times. -
Results of Our Reader Survey I
Thanks to everyone who took the time to fill out our readership survey. Nearly 300 people did so, and the result is a rich dataset of feedback, suggestions, concerns, criticism and gratifyingly, a great ... -
Why Clapper Matters: The Future of Programmatic Surveillance
In light of the Supreme Court's grant of certiorari yesterday to review the Second Circuit's decision in Clapper v. Amnesty International, I thought I'd put together a background post trying to explain w... -
Appellee Brief Filed in ACLU v. CIA
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Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lots of coverage of the NATO summit in the Windy City this weekend. -
The Doubtful Constitutionality of ACTA as an Ex Ante Congressional-Executive Agreement
Dozens of scholars have written a letter to complain about the constitutional basis for President Obama to ratify the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA). ACTA, for those who don’t know, is a con... -
Response to Paul on Cyber-Regulation for Critical Infrastructure
Last week Paul outlined his case against regulation of cybersecurity for Critical Infrastructure (CI). He promises more analysis to come, but I wanted to post a few responses now, for while I don’t love... -
Cert. Granted in <i>Clapper v. Amnesty International</i>
Ben noted the non-action on the cert. petitions in the Guantanamo cases (which probably means either that the Justices aren't sure what to do, or that someone is publishing a dissent from the decision to...
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