Yesterday the Office of the National Counterintelligence Executive of the DNI released a Report entitled Foreign Spies Stealing US Economic Secrets in Cyberspace.  The Report explained in general terms w...

Following up on my last post regarding section 1031 of the NDAA FY 12 and the future of detention authority, I want to draw attention to what strikes me as a huge and looming issue--but one that is getti...

On his new blog, The Loyal Opposition, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal has this post arguing that "One particularly compelling reason [not to use military commissions] is that tribu...

A response to Steve Vladeck's post on Section 1031 of the Senate version of the NDAA FY '12, which concerns detention authority under the 9/18/01 AUMF. 

My old friend Alejandro Manevich, now an attorney in Toronto, writes in with the following on today's development in the extradition case of Abdullah Khadr: I thought your readers may be interested in th...

A while back I posted on the fact that the State Department has not formally designated the Haqqani Network as a whole to be a foreign terrorist organization, which among other things precludes applicati...

From the invaluable Steven Aftergood over at Secrecy News: For the first time in more than a decade, the total U.S.

Last week I noted that al-Nashiri has moved for an order compelling the government to state whether it would remand him to military detention for the duration of hostilities in the event of an acquittal....

The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions of several members of the group referred to in the media variously as the “Miami 7,” the “Liberty City 7,” or the “Seas of David.”  The men were convicte...

Dramatic news out of Atlanta yesterday, as federal prosecutors announced the arrest of members of a "fringe militia group" charged with conspiring to carry out an array of terrorist attacks on government...