Available here. This report is Attorney General Eric Holder's response to President Obama's order of a review of departmental policies with respect to the media.

Readers will recall Monday's order by District Court Judge Gladys Kessler dismissing, on jurisdictional grounds, one of four GTMO detainees' motions for an injunction to stop force feeding.

CNN is reporting that Janet Napolitano has announced that she will leave the Department of Homeland Security in September to become President of the University of California system.  My speculation on re...

I've been waiting for a while for a detainee to make this argument: The transfer provisions of the NDAA violate the Commander in Chief clause.

An Irish court rules on the subject---in response to U.S. requests for extradition help. The opinion is actually an interesting window into U.S. efforts to get countries to impede Snowden's travel. Botto...

Wells blogged on Monday about EPIC's new original filing in the Supreme Court, seeking mandamus, prohibition, or certiorari from the Justices to review Judge Vinson's now-leaked FISA Court order with reg...

The Electronic Privacy Information Center ("EPIC"), an advocacy and litigation group, today petitioned for a writ of mandamus or prohibition, or a writ of certiorari, in the Supreme Court.  The filing's ...

This will be a remarkable and interesting event, to say the least.  The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (for a quick overview of the slow process by which the PCLOB has (sort of) gotten off t...

That's the sum and substance of this Reuters piece (run here in the New York Times).  It begins as follows: CARACAS — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro offered asylum to former U.S. intelligence contra...

Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi is seeking en banc review of his habeas petition from the D.C. Circuit. Best of luck with that. A panel of the court affirmed Al Warafi's detention back in May. Lots of cove...