The privacy- and oversight-relevant news comes to us via this Associated Press story.

I confess that I don't have a lot of patience for all of the very serious discussion people seem to be having about the case of Elonis v. U.S., which was argued today in the Supreme Court. The question b...

Last week, a British court allowed civil tort claims against the British government to proceed. In Rahmatullah v. Ministry of Defence, the High Court (Queen’s Bench Division) held that a former Pakistani...

Rumor has it, that Jeh Johnson, the current Secretary of DHS, is being considered for appointment as the next Secretary of Defense.  Don't do it Mr.

Thousands of westerners, including at least 100 Americans and more than 500 Britons, are known to have joined ISIS or the Al Nusra Front in Syria and Iraq.

Earlier this week Ben posted his own thoughts on the President's exercise of prosecutorial discretion in the enforcement of our immigration laws.  Now, we have the DOJ OLC opinion justifying the Presiden...

At the Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg reports that the Pentagon today transferred 5 inmates at Guantanamo Bay to two countries in Europe. According to Rosenberg, three of the detainees were sent to Georg...

A while back I noted certain 9/11 defense counsel's objections to a proposed change to the CIA's policy, regarding the destruction of CIA e-mails. In August, a federal bureaucracy charged with appraising...

The D.C. Circuit has just issued a per curiam order denying six Guantanamo detainees' petition for rehearing en banc in Allaithi v. Rumsfeld. The detainees sought review of the D.C.

The prosecutor, Lt. Col. David Long, finishes his arguments regarding whether to push back argument on motion AE21, Al Hadi's challenge to physical touching by female Guantanamo guards.   Long says no. ...

Judge Waits ascends the bench and the hearing once more comes to order.  It seems Al-Hadi is here, along with attorneys for both sides. Housekeeping: The military judge explains that yesterday and this m...

In AE18, Lt. Col. Tom Jasper seeks, on behalf of Al-Hadi, to compel discovery into certain communications---those between the Convening Authority and Defense Department brass, regarding the release of Pr...