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An Exculpatory Footnote to the <i>Kiriakou</i> Indictment
I just wanted to add one point to Bobby's thorough post on the Kiriakou indictment from earlier today. As Bobby quoted from the DOJ press release: According to the complaint affidavit, the investigation ... -
Fourth Circuit Throws Out Jose Padilla's <i>Bivens</i> Suit
Jack just flagged the Fourth Circuit's unanimous 39-page opinion throwing out Lebron v. -
Fourth Circuit Affirms Dismissal in Rumsfeld v. Padilla
Opinion here. Commentary later, hopefully. -
Email Surveillance Leads to Material Support Arrest in Chicago
Jamshid Muhtorov is under arrest, facing material support charges predicated on the claim that he swore allegiance to an Uzbekistan group known as the Islamic Jihad Union, and that he attempted to travel... -
CIA Officer Prosecuted for Leaking Classified Info to Journalist in Connection with GTMO Interrogations
Oh boy. Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been arrested and charged with leaking classified to a journalist concerning interrogation at GTMO, including the identity of persons involved in interrogati... -
Human Rights Watch's Laura Pitter on Military Commissions--A Response
Writing in Salon magazine, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch declares that "fundamental procedural protections afforded defendants in federal courts simply do not exist in military commissions. And with... -
Readings: Shane Harris, The Human-Free Future of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
Journalist Shane Harris (senior writer for Washingtonian magazine and author of the well-received 2010 book, The Watchers) has written a briefing paper for the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National... -
No Preliminary Injunction for Al Hawsawi
The D.C. Circuit has batted back Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the new mail search policy at Guantanamo Bay. A per curiam order by a panel consisting of Judges M... -
Latif Public Cert Petition Released
Here it is--redactions and all. Enjoy! -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Lots to report on Afghanistan today: According to a classified coalition report given to the New York Times, NATO-trained Afghan soldiers are killing the very people who trained them at an rising rate. ... -
More Al-Nashiri Transcripts
The last of the transcripts from the second day of the Al-Nashiri proceedings are available here and here. -
My Review of William Shawcross’s “Justice and the Enemy”
It can be found here (and Wells’s review for Lawfare can be found here.) I liked the book, which uses the dilemmas and compromises of Nuremburg as a lens for Shawcross's empathetic and fair-minded accou...
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