Voice of America is reporting that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (like the U.S.

United States privacy law traditionally has only protected the privacy of those in the United States and U.S. citizens abroad. Over at Just Security, David Cole argues that this should change. Privacy is...

We noted Sunday that the Justice Department filed a letter in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama last week informing the D.C. Circuit that the four detainees are no longer designated hunger-strikers.

The hearing, entitled "Potential Changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA)" is happening now. Watch the video below, and check out the prepared statements:

The Justice Department recently changed its policy on notice to criminal defendants about the use of evidence derived from surveillance under Section 702 of FISA.

The "NSA Affair" still commands German headlines. Over the weekend, the news was dominated by the fit-for-a-spy-novel revelations that the top floor of the U.S. Embassy on Pariser Platz (overlooking the ...

I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico:

Odds and ends are batted around, as some motions are deemed moot, and others are put off until the case’s December sitting.  The whittling down takes us eventually to AE158, and to Ruiz’s bid to prevent ...

Next is AE175.  It is perhaps the prosecution’s most hotly anticipated item, and for good reason.  The motion asks the military judge to enter the prosecution’s proposed trial scheduling order.  Among ot...