Last week I noted that the House Judiciary Committee was  circulating a proposal to reform the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act that was mostly a wish list for the Department of Justice.  Yesterday a diverse...

Last Monday, I flagged Chief Judge Lamberth's important new decision in a Guantánamo habeas case--Barre v. Obama--in which, among other things, he excoriated the government for how long it has taken them...

Now this is a strange and interesting case.  You may have seen an interesting post recently at Foreign Policy describing a US citizen (and former soldier in the US Army) named Eric Harroun, who appeared ...

Wells blogged previously about the efforts of various media groups and the ACLU to seek mandamus review before the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), challenging the scope of the protective orde...

The House Judiciary Committee has released a draft cyber bill that would modify the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.  The bill is on a fast track as the House hopes to have a week of "cyber" legislation in ...

In case you missed it: on March 15, attorneys for the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg filed this FOIA action against the Department of Defense (h/t Legal Times).  Rosenberg's complaint begins as follows: 1.

Stewart Baker points to a provision in Congress’s continuing resolution that is the first serious attempt I have seen to punish (as opposed to rail against) China for its cybersecurity practices.    Sect...

Philip Carter and Deborah Pearlstein have posted a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that emphasizes the utility of civilian criminal prosecution as a counterterrorism option.  I very much agree with th...

The Ahmed Warsame case (Warsame is the al Shabaab member captured by US forces while attempting to return to Somalia after a period of training with AQAP in Yemen, who was then held for two months in mil...

Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S.