Excellent recent posts by Ben and Marty draw attention to the impact that the drawdown in Afghanistan likely will have on GTMO habeas litigation.

Very interesting and thoughtful comments over at Just Security by Marty Lederman on Justice Breyer's brief opinion in the Hussain cert denial the other day. Marty writes: As Justice Breyer notes . .

I begin with a paragraph from Wikipedia: Self-organized criticality is one of a number of important discoveries made in statistical physics and related fields over the latter half of the 20th century, di...

James Lewis of CSIS has an excellent post on the reality of the Russian surveillance system, a reality that is quite different from the impression created by Vladimir Putin during his recent televised ex...

I have maintained a certain agnosticism about Edward Snowden's relationship with the Russian intelligence services up until now. I noted with interest, but unconvinced, statements by congressional intell...

I know it is rude and churlish to offer anything but warm congratulations when former colleagues win a major prize—much less journalism's most prestigious award.

As Ben notes, the USG denied a Bloomberg News report that the “U.S.

The other day, walking out of Aikido class, I was chatting with a friend about Heartbleed. I joked that the latest revelation reminded me of a scene from the classic Martin Scorsese movie, After Hours. I...

In another round of “privacy versus security” in the European Union, the Court of Justice of the European Union (ECJ) on April 8, 2014 struck down the European Union’s Data Retention Directive 2006/24/EC.