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Federal Public Defender to Represent Boston Marathon Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The Federal Public Defender Office for the Districts of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island has said it expects to represent Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, according to Mir... -
Four Reasons Sens. Graham and McCain are Wrong
Sens. Lindsey Graham and John McCain were quick out of the box last night in declaring that the Obama administration should hold Dzhokar Tsarnaev in military detention: Now that the suspect is in custody... -
Interrogating Tsarnaev: No Need for Military Detention Here
Unless there is good reason to believe that the Tsarnaev brothers were acting as agents of al Qaeda or some other AUMF-covered group, talk of putting Dzhokar Tsarnaev into military custody as an enemy co... -
Good Twitter Sources and News Links on the Ongoing Boston Marathon Bombing Manhunt
We're reposting our Twitter feed of reliable sources on the manhunt that's ongoing in Boston right now. As with last time: "This does not mean that everything they are saying will turn out to be correct.... -
A Crash Course on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan
It has been widely reported that the two prime suspects in the Boston marathon bombings---one who was killed in a shootout early this morning---are ethnic Chechens. -
One Quick Thought on the Unfolding Situation in the Boston Suburbs . . .
. . . where one of the Boston Marathon suspects is dead and the other is on murderous rampage: It is very important that the remaining suspect be taken alive. The New York Times has identified the two s... -
CAAF Rejects Jurisdiction Over Bradley Manning Court-Martial Public Access Claims
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AG Holder's Statement on the Terrorist Attack in Boston
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District Court: No Jurisdiction Over Emergency GTMO Motion on Water, Cold
That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein: A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s... -
A Typology for Evaluating Active Cyber Defenses
As readers of this blog know, many in the US have begun to debate the legal and policy questions surrounding private sector “hack back,” also sometimes known as “active defenses.” Of course to some of u... -
Redacted USG and Defense Briefs in Ghailani Appeal
Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz... -
Newsflash: Al Nashiri Hearings Postponed
Just a few days ago, the counsel for military commission defendant Abd al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad al Nashiri filed a motion for a continuance, requesting that the four days of hearings slated for next wee...
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