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Josh Gerstein at the Politico is reporting:
The Obama administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to seek dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by Muslims who claim that the FBI conducted swe...
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Slate's Dahlia Lithwick has posted excerpts from the Aspen Security Forum event to which I linked on Sunday.
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Nicholas Schmidle has a piece up at the New Yorker providing the most detailed account I've yet seen of the raid that killed bin Laden. It's a gripping read, obviously very well informed by JSOC sources...
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Check out the composition of this panel--which must of stressed all of Dahlia Lithwick's copious social skills to keep civil.
I haven't watched it yet, but I thought I would flag it for interested reade...
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Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood writes:
The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War ...
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The UK Human Rights Blog has this analysis of the British government's detainee inquiry, which is just getting off the ground.
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Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine has a lengthy profile on the magazine's web site of William Welch, who is the Justice Department's point man on leaks cases.
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Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama.
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The Washington Post is reporting:
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Guess what? Human Rights Watch still wants to prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture. You knew that already? Yeah, so did I.
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Well, this is timely. The Journal of National Security Law & Policy has just published this 104-page article from David Kris (who recently stepped down as the AAG for the National Security Division at D...
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As Bobby notes, the recently announced criminal prosecution of Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, captured overseas almost three months ago by U.S. military forces, could be an important test of an emerging hybri...
