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USG Filing in NYT/ACLU SDNY FOIA Suit Re Targeted Killings
Here is the Government’s brief in support of its summary judgment motion in response to requests by the NYT and ACLU for records on targeted killings, especially with regard to U.S. citizens. This is t... -
White House Releases 2012 6-Month War Powers Resolution Supplemental Report
Today's report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:... -
The Shadow War Is Not Very Shadowy
Craig Whitlock has a very interesting piece in the Washington Post today, the main thrust of which is to describe the military's efforts to establish aerial surveillance capacity across wide swaths of Af... -
Final Thoughts on DC Circuit Fidelity to Hamdi/Boumediene
A few final thoughts on the topic of DC Circuit fidelity to Hamdi and Boumediene, for the three people still paying attention to us (hi Mom!). -
My Last Word (for Now) on the D.C. Circuit and Boumediene
At the risk of boring readers who have long-since grown tired of this exchange, let me just offer three quick responses to Bobby's thoughtful intervention in the back-and-forth between Ben and me on whet... -
Is DC Circuit Habeas Caselaw Inconsistent with Hamdi and Boumediene?
Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc... -
A Reply for Ben...
Ben asks: "What are the specific 'requirements' the Supreme Court laid out in Boumediene or Hamdi that the D.C. Circuit has refused to honor such that habeas review is not 'meaningful' within the meaning... -
SCOTUS Denies Cert in Seven GTMO Habeas Cases, and Lebron Too
That's the outcome of orders from the Supreme Court today, an across-the-board denial of review in seven Guantanamo habeas cases: Latif, Al-Bihani, Uthman, Almerfedi, Al-Kandari, Al-Madhwani, and Al-Alwi... -
Leak Investigations in the Digital Era
Paul makes a good point that digital technology and data analytics make it easier for the government to track journalists’ movements and ascertain the persons in government with whom they communicate. C... -
Klaidman Post #2: On Leaks and Officialdom
Jack has already posted, while I was in transit, Dan Klaidman's account of the White House's sponsoring of leaks in connection with the Baitullah Mehsud drone strike. The full account reads as follows: W... -
Andy McCarthy on Leak Investigations
Andy McCarthy has an interesting post on the just-opened leak investigations. He garners more reasons than I did to think that many of the recent high-profile leaks – not just on drones, but also on the... -
Thoughts on Leak Investigations in the Modern Era
One item in Jack's post on the upcoming leak investigations caught my eye -- he noted that "It is hard to discover leakers without access to journalists’ testimony or notes (which are hard to obtain)." ...
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