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In mid-March, I noted a speech by Home Secretary Theresa May, in which she advanced the idea that the UK should consider withdrawing from the European Convention on Human Rights. As I noted then, the Eu...
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The Hill reports:
The head of the House Intelligence panel is worried the Justice Department may have jeopardized the public’s safety by allowing a federal judge to read the Boston bombing suspect his Mi...
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Salam al-Marayati, President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, sent in this piece on the Boston attacks and extremism:
An unfortunate consequence of the Boston Marathon bombings has been this: the si...
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The Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald on June 3. The civil appeal challenges the power of the Military Commissions’ Convening Authority to prosecute Al-Nashiri before a mi...
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One of the hallmarks of a person steeped in national security law is their facility with the statutory designations in various parts of Title 50, especially the National Security Act of 1947 and the CIA ...
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So we learn from this order, handed down yesterday, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In a letter filed after the Hedges oral argument, attorneys for the government had cited...
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This report from today's Wall Street Journal is fascinating. It involves the decision of a Magistrate Judge to deny a government application for a search warrant in which the government proposed to inst...
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A very interesting post on the New York Times's FiveThirtyEight blog argues that, while Americans think future terrorist attacks are likely, they're also increasingly "skeptical about sacrificing persona...
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Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham held a press conference, in which he unsurprisingly lamented the White House's decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an "enemy combatant."
A transcript is below.
G...
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Among other things, the story describes the defendant's interrogation, Sunday, pursuant to Miranda's public safety exception:
BOSTON — Lying grievously wounded in a hospital bed, the surviving suspect i...
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I suppose this was inevitable: A Twitter hashtag has developed devoted to the proposition that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent: #Freejahar, for those curious to check it out. Spencer Ackerman describes it ...
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Lawfare's crack team of contributors has been busy invading The Huffington Post. Hot on the heels of Susan and Ritika's excellent backgrounder on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan, I've posted an article arguing t...
