A few weeks ago, I received an email from a producer inviting me to participate in a “debate+discussion with Glenn [Greenwald] about the legality of the Predator strikes.” I responded, “I would be happy ...

That is the title of an informative post by Marcy Wheeler about recent examples of ineffective congressional oversight (to put it mildly) of DOD’s growing cyber operations.

Believe it or not, this blog does have a higher purpose than to send Glenn Greenwald into paroxysms of rage--though I confess that such paroxysms are great fun when we happen to provoke them, and they se...

I am trying to collect major examples of the various roles that inspectors general play in national security.  Below I have broken down their roles into three categories, and listed examples of each.  (I...

For those who haven't yet heard, DOJ announced earlier today that David Kris is stepping down as Assistant Attorney General for the National Security Division.

The Obama administration does badly on each of the final three elements of the Human Rights First report card. On the first of these, the group writes, Grade: C Accountability and Oversight of U.S. Priv...

Steve Vladeck has a good post up noting that Justice Kagan has to recuse from most if not all the GTMO-related cases that are percolating up, and that as a result there's relatively little prospect of ge...

A few months ago, Bobby wrote a post about one of the Guantanamo habeas petitions currently pending at the Supreme Court, Al Odah v. Obama.  Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah, who lost his district cou...

I am perplexed by this category and grade: Grade: Incomplete Due Process in Afghanistan. Following recommendations from Human Rights First, the Obama administration in 2009 made important improvements to...

Yesterday the D.C. Circuit denied a petition for initial hearing en banc in Abdah v. Obama (No. 05-5224), a case involving the same type of pre-transfer notice orders as those at issue in Kiyemba II.

I'm very glad that President Obama has acted in a fashion that has won him a failing grade from Human Rights First in this category: Grade: F Accountability for Torture. Torture and conspiracy to commit...

Today Judge Leon released his brief unclassified opinion in Razak Ali v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas merits case.  In the order Judge Leon denies the petition of Abdul Razak Ali, an Algerian who also goes...