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I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event:
The Penta...
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"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.
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The other day, Jack posted an excerpt from a Foreign Policy article by Professor Bruce Ackerman, advocating for Senator Wyden to take advantage of the Speech and Debate Clause and disclose classified inf...
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Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...
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Two developments in Hatim et al. v. Obama et al., the D.C. Circuit case regarding JTF-GTMO's detainee access procedures for defense counsel: one, the filing of additional briefing regarding the stay of a...
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With the current controversies over the NSA's surveillance programs, I want to return to broader issues about how to think about the role of courts in the national-security area.
In this area, governme...
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An article in the Washington Post today draws attention, once more (see here, for example), to the lingering question of what will become of the lingering population of detainees (all non-Afghans) remain...
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Bruce Ackerman has a piece in the FP arguing that Senator Wyden, who has been disappointed in the quantity and quality of Executive branch disclosures related to surveillance, should “let Americans know ...
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Here's the New York Times reporter's petition for rehearing en banc in the case of United States v. Sterling. It was filed yesterday.
Readers will recall that last month a three-judge panel of the Fou...
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The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case. (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...
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Here's the "Primary Collection Order" authorizing the collection of telephone metadata, signed by FISC Judge Roger Vinson (signed April 25 and expiring on July 19th, 2013), declassified.
Also declassifi...
