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FOIA Action Seeking List of GTMO Detainees
In case you missed it: on March 15, attorneys for the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg filed this FOIA action against the Department of Defense (h/t Legal Times). Rosenberg's complaint begins as follows: 1. -
Thoughts on Possible End to CIA Targeted Killing
As Jack mentioned, Dan Klaidman of the Daily Beast reported today that “the White House is poised to sign off on a plan to shift the CIA’s lethal targeting program to the Defense Department." Over at Fo... -
Espionage in the Aloha State? <em>U.S. v. Bishop</em>
Filed March 14th in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii: a criminal complaint against a civilian defense contractor, Benjamin Bishop, for unlawfully leaking national security secrets to his girlfriend. Th... -
California District Court Enjoins Issuance of National Security Letters
This could be a very big deal... Judge Susan Illston of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California has issued a 24-page opinion striking down 18 U.S.C. -
Should Abu Ghaith Have Been Sent to GTMO? Senators Ayotte and Graham (Still) Think So
Wednesday on the Senate floor, three senators spoke about the Obama administration's decision to prosecute, in a federal court, Osama bin Laden's son-in-law and Al Qaeda spokesman Sulaiman Abu Ghaith. Re... -
D.C. Circuit Rejects <em>Glomar</em> Response in ACLU/CIA Drone FOIA Suit
Pretty big decision by the D.C. Circuit this morning, reversing the district court's dismissal of the ACLU's drone-related FOIA suit against the CIA on the ground that the Agency's "Glomar response" was ... -
Audio of Bradley Manning In Court Statement Now Public---But Not on Lawfare
Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting: A group has posted audio online of Bradley Manning’s speech to a military court in Fort Meade explaining his decision to release classified military information to... -
Why No Period of Detention and Interrogation for Abu Ghaith, ala the Warsame Model?
As Ritika notes below, the United States has captured a senior al Qaeda figure (Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, who was the son-in-law of Osama bin Laden), and will be bringing him to the United States for prosecut... -
Why I Don't Mind the Rand Paul Filibuster
Jack is certainly right that Senator Paul "is painting a misleadingly very unattractive picture of the circumstances in which the United States uses drones abroad in words that will now be played around ... -
Google's Transparency Report on NSLs
In its latest transparency report published this week, Google began sharing very general data about the number of National Security Letters (NSLs) it receives from the FBI or other government agencies se... -
Peter Margulies on Clapper
Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law writes in with the following comments on yesterday's Clapper decision: The Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday in Clapper v. Amnesty International reads at fi... -
Clapper Opinion Recap: Supreme Court Denies Standing to Challenge NSA Warantless Wiretapping
As Wells reported, the Supreme Court issued its opinion in Clapper v. Amnesty International USA this morning.
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