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Sabin Willett and David Remes on Adnan Latif
I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going ... -
Judge Forrest Issues Permanent Injunction in <em>Hedges</em>
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The Constitution Project's New Report on Fusion Centers
The Constitution Project today released a new report titled Recommendations for Fusion Centers: Preserving Privacy & Civil Liberties While Protecting Against Crime & Terrorism. In the wake of the 9/11 a... -
The Government’s Conundrum in Responding to "No Easy Day"
“How the hell can we run sensitive operations here that go after enemies if people are allowed to do that?,” asked Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta, on CBS, in response to the revelations about the Bin ... -
Matthew Bissonnette’s Duties Concerning Classified Information
Tom Ricks has an uncharacteristically uninformed post about the No Easy Day kerfuffle, in which he claims that it “would be a bad thing if people came to expect some sort of right of the military to revi... -
STOCK Act Threatens Safety and Privacy Not Only of National Security Officials but of All Senior Federal Executives and Their Families
Here’s a challenge: Can either President Obama or any member of Congress explain why it makes good sense to require 28,000 senior executive officials to post their financial disclosure forms (containing... -
Judge Lamberth Corrects His Error; the <em>New York Times</em> Repeats It
I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb... -
The Haqqani Network to Be Designated, at Last, as an FTO
The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence... -
Detainees Prevail in Counsel Access Dispute
Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here. -
Open Society Report on “Remaking Bagram”
Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P... -
Upcoming Habeas Arguments
To the list of upcoming habeas cases in the court of appeals, add these: first, Khairkhwa v. Obama, which is set for argument on October 5th; and second, Hussain v. -
NYT on Continuing Effort to Transfer Afghanistan Detention Ops
The New York Times has this piece about continuing U.S.
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