Charlie Savage of the New York Times has posted the text of the FBI's new guidance on Miranda. I'll post thoughts after I've had a chance to digest it.

The other day, Bobby posted a link to the the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Amnesty International v.

A few thoughts worth bearing in mind in light of the FBI “guidance” memo Ben describes below and the considerable attention it is generating. There is a tendency in this debate to conflate rules of evid...

Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece reporting that "New rules allow investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warni...

The Washington Post has an interesting editorial today largely in support of Senator Lindsey Graham's new habeas bill. Like me, the Post expresses sympathy for Graham's basic project, and objects to the ...

As Scott Shane reported in today's New York Times, the panel of independent psychiatric experts who reviewed the behavioral health history of Dr. Bruce E. Ivins--the person believed to be responsible for...

I have now had the chance to go over a transcript of Thursday's House Armed Services Committee hearing on detention policy, at which Pentagon General Counsel Jeh Johnson and Deputy Defense Secretary Will...

Adam Serwer has a very thoughtful piece on yesterday's House Armed Services Committee hearing, which I could not attend. Like me, Adam has come to the conclusion that there is quite a bit of common groun...

(By Benjamin Wittes and Larkin Reynolds) This summary is going to be short--short and obscure. The reason is that Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson opened today's arguments by announcing that almost none of ...

In fulfillment of my promise last week to provide analysis of the various pieces of new Senate legislation, here are some thoughts on the new version of Senator Lindsey Graham's habeas reform bill. The b...