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A new filing yesterday, in parallel FOIA actions regarding the targeted killing program: the government's "Combined Opposition to Plaintiffs' Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment and Reply in Further Supp...
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A big win for the government today in the Ninth Circuit, in a case exploring the impact of FISA's civil liability provision (50 USC 1810) on sovereign immunity. In a panel opinion written by Judge McKeo...
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I've been less than on the ball about covering the Senate Intelligence Committee's new anti-leak legislation. Here's the bill text. Here's a good summary by Steve Aftergood over at Secrecy News.
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Over at the Cato Institute's Cato@Liberty blog, Julian Sanchez responds to the recent guest post by former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero on FISA Amendments Act reauthorization. Writes Sanche...
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Over at the Emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has this response to former Justice Department official Carrie Cordero's guest post of this morning. She notes that Senator Wyden responded at y...
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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown's Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with the following account of a recent Cato Institute event (which, ahem, would have...
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I received the following response from Richard Klingler to my ACSblog post on Monday re: the Al-Aulaqi suit and Bivens, and thought I'd post it in its entirety (below the fold) before replying (also belo...
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This Friday, I'll be joining Benjamin Powell from WilmerHale (and formerly, inter alia, the General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence) for a Federalist Society teleforum on C...
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Over at the ACSblog, I have a guest post up on Al-Aulaqi v. Panetta and Ben's suspicion that the lawsuit will go the way of Arar, Lebron, Doe, and Rasul--with courts holding that there should be no Biven...
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This morning, U.S.
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Last week, security officials unsealed John Kiriakou's consolidated reply - in which the defendant takes on the government's opposition to his motion for a bill of particulars, and his motion to dismiss ...
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There seem to be many things habeas counsel might dislike about the proposed Memorandum of Understanding that DOJ has asked David Remes to sign. But like Ben, I’ll wait until I see the government’s resp...
