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Peter Margulies writes in with this response to my request for examples of NGOs moving the goalposts in their demands about counterterrorism legal policy.
Administration critics “moved the goal posts” in...
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Back in March, the Convening Authority dismissed the charges against Guantanamo detainee Tarek Mahmoud El Sawah of conspiracy to commit acts attacking civilians, attacking civilian objects, murder in vio...
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Following up on his post yesterday on secret evidence in civil cases in Britain, Hugo Rosemont writes in this morning with a brief update:
In other recent developments....
i. The Secretary of State fo...
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John Kiriakou was previously arrested, and charged via criminal complaint, on grounds relating to disclosure of classified information. He has now been indicted (here). I believe the charges are the sa...
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In Today's Headlines and Commentaries, Raffaela notes the controversy in Britain that has erupted over the possibility of using secret evidence in certain civil cases. Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Ad...
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Yesterday we mentioned that a suit had been filed in the Southern District of New York by a number of commentators and public figures, arguing that the NDAA's detention provisions will apply to them in t...
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So reports the Washington Post . . .
UPDATE [5:17 p.m]: the referred charges in the capital case against KSM and his co-defendants include, among other things, conspiracy and attacking civilians. The c...
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Transfer of the Detention Facility in Parwan (DFIP) from American to Afghan control has begun. The first step? Appointment of Maj. Gen.
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Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members? Probably so. It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...
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The 28-page opinion in United States v. Stone, (E.D. Mich. Mar.
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The former counterterrorism czar reaches this conclusion because the operation had lawyers’ fingerprints on it. From an interview with Ron Rosenbaum in Smithsonian Magazine:
“I think it’s pretty clear t...
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An interesting development in the military commission case against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four alleged September 11 co-conspirators: The government has added charges of intentionally causing seri...
