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Over at The National Interest, I just published a short piece about the military balance in East Asia.
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The Washington Post reports comments by Attorney General Eric Holder on the pace of military commissions at a news conference yesterday:
“I think that had we gone along the path that I announced at that ...
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As promised by petitioners in their filing last week, and in response to the government's letter to the court suggesting that their case is moot: Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan today moved to i...
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Edward Snowden's disclosures and subsequent government declassifications have prompted a wave of proposals to retool the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (“FISA”). Some of these proposed revisions a...
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The CIA's efforts to deny the ACLU's FOIA requests for records about the Agency's involvement in drone-based targeted killings continue apace in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. The ...
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Voice of America is reporting that the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta (like the U.S.
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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...
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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.
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Last Monday, the government filed its response to accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's motion to vacate the special administrative measures (SAMs) imposed on him and his attorneys.
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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:
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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.
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I have not read these yet but will do so over the next few days and offer thoughts and summaries as I do.