In response to my post earlier today on Senator McConnell's call for the defendants in the Kentucky-Iraq case to be transferred to GTMO, the  spokesman for DOJ's National Security Division (Dean Boyd) sh...

The invaluable Steve Aftergood, over at Secrecy News, is reporting: Attorneys for New York Times reporter James Risen yesterday asked a court to quash a subpoena requiring him to testify in the case of f...

I noted recently that federal prosecutors have indicted a pair of men in Kentucky in connection with the insurgency in Iraq, noting that the situation might raise questions regarding the extent to which ...

Back in April, I posted this motion by habeas attorney David Remes in Paracha v. Obama, asking for the ability to access Wikileaked material like everyone else can. I had not noticed this response yester...

Signs of activity from special prosecutor John Durham,

I join Ben in welcoming Marty Lederman back to blogging.  His initial post--parsing both international and domestic legal issues relating to the UBL operation--is typically thorough and insightful (not t...

The Supreme Court today issued a unanimous opinion in General Dynamics Corp. v.

The Supreme Court denied cert this morning in Mohamed v. Jeppesen Dataplan, leaving in place the Ninth Circuit’s en banc opinion affirming dismissal of a civil suit (relating to rendition) on state secre...

Over at Opinio Juris, Deborah Pearlstein says that "it’s disheartening to see conversation already turning to old, old debates about interrogation." Pearlstein is upset because certain people (including ...

David Ignatius, who typically has great sources in the CIA, writes: The trail that led to bin Laden’s hideout in the town of Abbottabad, about 75 miles north of Islamabad, began between 2002 and 2004 wit...

...albeit less directly than the AP, that some of the key the initial strands of intelligence came out of the CIA system. The Times reports: Last night, an official said that “detainees” had identified a...