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Congratulations to the Harvard National Security Journal for a fruitful conference yesterday on the covert action and the law. It was an intensive seminar all day long on the domestic and international ...
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Peter Margulies writes in with this response to my request for examples of NGOs moving the goalposts in their demands about counterterrorism legal policy.
Administration critics “moved the goal posts” in...
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Following up on his post yesterday on secret evidence in civil cases in Britain, Hugo Rosemont writes in this morning with a brief update:
In other recent developments....
i. The Secretary of State fo...
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John Kiriakou was previously arrested, and charged via criminal complaint, on grounds relating to disclosure of classified information. He has now been indicted (here). I believe the charges are the sa...
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In Today's Headlines and Commentaries, Raffaela notes the controversy in Britain that has erupted over the possibility of using secret evidence in certain civil cases. Hugo Rosemont, a Security Policy Ad...
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Ritika and I have received many thoughtful responses to our post the other day about the War of 1812, James Madison, executive power, and civil liberties. The most eye-opening--to me, at least--was a not...
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Will Polish judges have the occasion to weigh in on the legality of non-criminal detention of asserted al Qaeda members? Probably so. It appears that Polish prosecutors have brought charges against the...
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The former counterterrorism czar reaches this conclusion because the operation had lawyers’ fingerprints on it. From an interview with Ron Rosenbaum in Smithsonian Magazine:
“I think it’s pretty clear t...
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The D.C. Circuit heard oral argument yesterday in Doe v. Rumsfeld (11-5209), a Bivens case brought by a U.S. citizen working as a military contractor in Iraq who alleged detention and interrogation abuse...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams School of Law has this article on proposed amendments to the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
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In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill. Today I want to begin drilling down in comparing the two...
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The American Civil Liberties Union has filed its opening brief in its appeal of the District Court of the District of Columbia's granting of a motion for summary judgment for the Central Intelligence Age...
