The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg has the scoop; apparently the five men are headed for Kazakhstan. The Pentagon freed five Guantánamo prisoners to resettlement in Kazakhstan on Tuesday, a day after the...

Wells already flagged yesterday's D.D.C.

Such is the gist of Judge Richard Roberts' order, issued yesterday in the context of the high-value Guantanamo detainee's habeas case in D.C.

Earlier this month, the Justice Department issued revised Guidance for Federal Law Enforcement Agencies on the Use of Race, Ethnicity, Gender, National Origin, Religion, Sexual Orientation, or Gender Ide...

The New York Times reports: WASHINGTON — The State Department envoy who negotiates detainee transfers from the military prison at

Following President Obama’s announcement that the US would begin normalizing relations with Cuba, questions immediately arose on the possible extradition of Joanne Deborah Chesimard, also known as Assata...

The New York Times is reporting that the entire North Korean network is off line as of right now.  No information at all on the cause.  Here is the opening from the article: North Korea’s already tenuou...

Now that the United States has concluded that North Korea was responsible for the hack into Sony’s computers, it has begun to make noises about responding to that hack in some way.

I've written two essays on the Sony hack, one for the Wall Street Journal, and the other for Vice Motherboard. The former opens: Earlier this month, a mysterious group that calls itself Guardians of Pea...

Polarization surrounding the SSCI Report (see here for Lawfare’s coverage) has been most pronounced on the efficacy of enhanced interrogation techniques (EITs). The Report and its supporters have proclai...

I have now spent enough quality time with the SSCI interrogation report---and with minority views and the CIA response---that I am ready to begin commenting upon it. This is not to say I have finished re...

We are told there is a privacy crisis.  The Snowden revelation and other such things have given the sense that we are in a crisis.  I think what we have is a privacy panic.  What I would call the Snowden...