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Move Over Wikileaks: Pakistani Lawyer Outs the CIA Chief of Station
[updated to remove/fix typos...] Mark Mazzetti and Salman Masood for the New York Times report an immensely disturbing development in Pakistan. A Pakistani lawyer named Mirza Shahzad Akbar has filed a ... -
The Newest Iteration of the GTMO Transfer Ban: Absent Court Order, No Transfer to State Where There Has Been Any "Recidivism"
The shape of the pending GTMO transfer ban has morphed yet again. Again Adam Serwer has the update. The long and short of it is that the pending National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2011 ... -
More Response from David Cole
David Cole offers the following in response to Jack's and my latest posts on continuity and change in counterterrorism policy between the Bush and Obama administrations: I’ve now had the chance to read J... -
How Ideas Get Inverted
Here's a little cautionary tale about life in the information anarchy in which we all exist today. It is, I suspect, a metaphor for something, though I'm not sure what. I pass it on as it may amuse some ... -
David Cole Responds
David Cole sent in the following response to my post of the other day on his earlier New Republic article: My piece took issue with the claim so often made by all sides of the debate that Obama has conti... -
Continuity and Change: Towards A Synthesis
I'm a little bit grouchy that the argument I made in this speech I keep linking to isn't more a part of the debate over continuity and change between the Bush and Obama administrations than it is. It's n... -
David Cole on Obama v. Bush
Ben has already commented on David Cole’s TNR essay (subscription needed) about how the Obama approach to counterterrorism differs from the Bush approach. But since David uses my own TNR essay on the su... -
Espionage Act: Hearing at the House, Witness Testimony
Today the full Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives held a hearing on the Espionage Act and the Legal and Constitutional Issues Raised by WikiLeaks. Below are links to the prepared witnes... -
Transfers from GTMO to the United States: Not Banned Outright After All?
Adam Serwer has a goodcatch on this one. As we've noted before, the pending omnibus spending package contains a wholesale prohibition on transfers of detainees from GTMO to United States territory. Or ... -
Al Harbi (Mingazov) Appellant's Brief Released
Last week (and our apologies for the belated update), the D.C. Circuit released the public version of the appellant's brief in another habeas merits appeal, Al Harbi v. Obama. -
The Implications of Charging Assange for Conspiracy to Leak [Updated]
Charlie Savage reports in the New York Times that DOJ is considering charging Julian Assange as a conspirator to Bradley Manning’s undoubtedly illegal leak of classified information: Justice Department o... -
Public Appellant Brief Available in Al Madhwani
Today, the D.C. Circuit released the public version of the appellant's brief in Al Madhwani v.
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