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State Department Hackers?
The Associated Press is reporting that, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says U.S. cyber experts hacked al-Qaeda propaganda online in Yemen, changing ads that bragged about killing Americans int... -
Eugene Kontorovich on Prisoner Trades and the Case for GTMO
The following is a guest post from Professor Eugene Kontorovich (Northwestern Law; Institute for Advanced Studies) Prisoner trades and the case for Gitmo A recent revelation provides an important new pe... -
More on Clapper and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Exception
I've gotten lots of helpful feedback both on- and offline re: yesterday's post on Clapper v. Amnesty International, and wanted to write in a bit more detail about (my understanding of) the foreign intell... -
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.
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