Over at the Weekly Standard, Thomas Joscelyn has a response to Bobby and my earlier response to his response to our responses (here and here) to his piece on Matthew Olsen.

United States v. Mohamed (D.Minn. July 18, 2011) is the latest in a series of convictions federal prosecutors have obtained in response to the recruitment of young Somali-American men in the Minneapolis ...

On Wednesday, the UK Supreme Court handed down its decision in Al-Rawi v.

( A joint response from Benjamin Wittes and Bobby Chesney) On Thursday we criticized a piece by Thomas Joscelyn at The Weekly Standard concerning Matt Olsen and the GTMO Review Task Force, in which Josc...

Marty Lederman has a terrific post exploring in more detail the First Amendment issues raised by the Begolly indictment.  It's a must-read if you are interested in the prospects for prosecuting those who...

A while back Ben posted about the pressing need for “radical transparency” in the military commissions process. It’s time to say it again:  The Pentagon must make it much easier for outsiders to follow t...

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I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen.  Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...

An important and interesting indictment issued today (see here for the pdf), in the Eastern District of Virginia. Emerson Begolly, an American citizen from Pennsyvlania (who already was under arrest aft...

I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.

In response to my post yesterday about looming habeas litigation alleging that the U.S.