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The Law and Policy of Ebola Interdiction
A few days ago President Obama announced his intention to do greater screening of passengers arriving in the United States, as a way of interdicting the spread of the Ebola virus. -
Dhiab Preliminary Injunction Hearing Read-Out, Part Two
We continue with our coverage of a preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Guantanamo detainee and intermittent hunger-striker Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab. As before, we recount the prior day’s procee... -
Petitioner Files Reply in Bahlul v. United States
Petitioner Ali al-Bahlul filed his reply brief yesterday in Bahlul v. United States, the D.C. -
Dhiab Preliminary Injunction Hearing Read-Out: Part One
Below you’ll find a read-out on the first of a three-day, preliminary injunction hearing in the case of Guantanamo detainee and intermittent hunger-striker Abu Wa’El (Jihad) Dhiab. The Syrian national’s... -
Supreme Court Denies Cert in Mehanna and Ali Cases
It's not just the same-sex marriage cases. The Supreme Court today also denied petitions for certiorari in a pair of cases we've been following. The first petition was from Tarek Mehanna, a Massachusetts... -
Judge Kessler’s Videotape Order and the Costs of Crying Wolf
The First Amendment question in Judge Kessler’s opinion in support of her Order directing the videotapes of Abu Wa'el Dhiab's forced feedings to be unsealed (see Jane’s summary) is whether the public’s p... -
Judge Kessler Orders Release of Guantanamo Force-Feeding Videos
An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A... -
So How <em>Does</em> Vladimir Putin Feel About Cyber, Anyway?
Two days ago, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave a significant cybersecurity speech to Russia’s Security Council. For all you Russian speakers, the original text and video can be found on the Kremlin’... -
<em>Lawfare's</em> Digest of Declassified Documents from CIA's In-House Intelligence Journal
A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re... -
Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security
Permit me a small amount of self-promotion, with apologies. But ABA Publishing has, today, released a new book, Whistleblowers, Leaks and the Media: The First Amendment and National Security, of which I... -
Confusing the Issues in <em>al Bahlul</em>
For the two people still following the exchange between me and Peter Margulies over the bottom-side briefing in the al Bahlul D.C. -
Judge Kaplan Accepts Adel Abdul Bary Guilty Plea
Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the scoop on the plea bargain, about which U.S.
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