As Raffaela posted earlier, the government has won a substantial victory in the FOIA litigation in which the Times and the ACLU sought disclosure of information about CIA drone strikes, including the leg...

Judge Colleen McMahon of the District Court of the Southern District of New York has granted summary judgment to the government in the consolidated FOIA cases brought by the New York Times and the ACLU. ...

Steve has already noted (and critiqued) this Washington Post story about continued “renditions” by the United States government.

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Under the snazzy headline "Renditions continue under Obama, despite due-process concerns," today's Washington Post has a long article on the overseas arrest, detention, and subsequent criminal indictment...

Kevin Jon Heller has responded to my earlier comments on his earlier post---which itself responded to my exchange with

Benjamin Farley writes in with the following comments on my exchange with Kevin Jon Heller and Glenn Greenwald: I just read your post responding to Kevin Jon Heller's response to your conversation with G...

Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a piece commenting on Glenn Greenwald's and my recent discussion of the difference between the accidental killing of children with drones and the intentional ki...

From the vanguard of the revolution, reports Forbes, comes this very important effort to prevent our robot overlords from spying on us: The city of Berkeley, Calif., this week took the first steps toward...

Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---who jointly filed an amicus brief in the Hedges appeal---are asking for argument time in the coming Second Circuit oral argument.

The Washington Post has an excellent article by Sudarsan Raghavan on civilian casualties in drone strikes in Yemen and the ways in which the Yemeni government tries to mask the U.S. role in these strikes...