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Letter from the Petitioner in Suleiman
On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The letter replies to an ear... -
Massachusetts Man Arrested in Connection with Pentagon Plot
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European Parliament Study on Intelligence Oversight
The European Parliament's Civil Liberties, Justice and Home Affairs Committee released this lengthy study today of oversight of national security and intelligence agencies by member states. Entitled "Pa... -
Military Commission Charges Referred Against Al-Nashiri
Charges have just been referred in the al-Nashiri case. Next step: arraignment. Thanks to the very-slick new commissions website (www.mc.mil), the charges are available here. They include some but not... -
Geneva Convention Argument Rejected in Prosecution of Alleged Iraqi Insurgent
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Today's Headlines and Commentary
Jeanette Catsoulis at the New York Times has this film review of "You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days Inside Guantanamo," which presents excerpts of the interrogation of Omar Khadr, who was 16 at the time o... -
More from Tom Ricks on JAGs and the Civ-Mil Relationship
Over at Best Defense, Tom Ricks has another post on the role of JAGs in the civ-mil relationship. I'd given him some recommendations previously in response to his first post and my call to readers for s... -
More Transparency Improvements for the Military Commission System: The New Website
As we have emphasized on this site quite often, the legitimacy of the military commission system has been hobbled in the past by a lack of transparency in its proceedings. There was very good news on th... -
FBI Watch List Rules
Interesting Charlie Savage story this morning about a newly released FBI document detailing rules for inclusion of terrorist suspects on watch lists. Of particular interest to Savage is the fact that tho... -
A Comparative Look at Preventive Criminal Charges in the US and UK: The Latest Homegrown-but-Trained-Abroad Case
This past Sunday, police in Birmingham, England, made a series of arrests in connection with a "homegrown-but-trained-abroad" terrorism plot. Irfan Nasser and Irfan Khalid allegedly traveled to Pakistan... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
In the federal case brought by Judicial Watch in May to release photos depicting Osama bin Laden's death, the federal government has filed several documents in support of its argument against release. Jo... -
A Move Toward Military Commissions Transparency--And a Promise
Raffaela linked earlier today to the Weekly Standard article in which the new military commissions chief prosecutor, Brig. General Mark Martins, announced some important new steps towards transparency in...
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