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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...
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A big hearing is taking place this morning at 9am before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Media report that the Verizon order will be declassified at this hearing.
Catch it live at the
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In light of yesterday's events in the Bradley Manning case, I really want to see this fascinating-looking documentary:
