As Wells already noted, the Supreme Court denied certiorari today without notation or dissent in all of the seven pending Guantanamo "merits" habeas cases (i.e., cases where the central issue goes to whe...

That's the outcome of orders from the Supreme Court today, an across-the-board denial of review in seven Guantanamo habeas cases: Latif, Al-Bihani, Uthman, Almerfedi, Al-Kandari, Al-Madhwani, and Al-Alwi...

Paul makes a good point that digital technology and data analytics make it easier for the government to track journalists’ movements and ascertain the persons in government with whom they communicate.  C...

Jack has already posted, while I was in transit, Dan Klaidman's account of the White House's sponsoring of leaks in connection with the Baitullah Mehsud drone strike. The full account reads as follows: W...

Andy McCarthy has an interesting post on the just-opened leak investigations.  He garners more reasons than I did to think that many of the recent high-profile leaks – not just on drones, but also on the...

This is kind of related to national security: Ben, who is a black belt in taekwondo and training for his second-degree test, breaks five boards: Ouch.

Memo to Eric Holder and President Obama: Next time you decide to break big news on a Friday afternoon, can you please check with me to make sure I'm not getting on a 24 hour flight first? It seemed like ...

One item in Jack's post on the upcoming leak investigations caught my eye -- he noted that "It is hard to discover leakers without access to journalists’ testimony or notes (which are hard to obtain)." ...

The scope of the leak investigations announced by Attorney General Holder yesterday remains unclear.  Holder appointed U.S.

Here is his statement: “Today, I assigned U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Ronald C. Machen Jr. and U.S. Attorney for the District of Maryland Rod J.

President Obama, today, on the possibility of leaks from the White House: The notion that the White House would purposely release classified national security information is offensive, it's wrong, and pe...

If you don't already follow Gregory Johnsen's Yemen-focused blog, you should.  His most recent post, which talks about the complexities associated with attributing AQAP membership to particular persons i...