Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the scoop on the plea bargain, about which U.S.

Harold’s Koh’s grudging defense of the domestic legal basis for President’s Obama’s use of force against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria is important.  It adds little new to other defenses of the Pre...

I must confess that I don't fully understand Peter Margulies' response to my post from earlier today. My post argued that the bottom-side briefing in the D.C.

Steve’s post arguing that the military commission conviction of former bin Laden aide Ali Hamza al Bahlul for conspiracy to murder civilians violates Article III does not do justice to the Framers’ caref...

You read that right: Hong Kongers have found an app that allows users to communicate without using the Internet or mobile signals. Specifically, the Firechat app utilizes Bluetooth technology to allow u...

So reports the Associated Press this morning.

Jane already flagged the merits brief filed by the U.S. government on September 17 in al Bahlul v. United States, the major challenge to the power of the Guantánamo military commissions to try non-intern...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence recently released its 2014 Strategy Roadmap, which can be found here. From the ODNI press release: Director of National Intelligence James R.

In February, Karen DeYoung and Greg Miller wrote a story in the WP about how Al-Qaeda’s then-recent expulsion of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS, now Islamic State, or IS) raised questions abou...

You know that the political system has reached a moment of special paralysis when a standoff emerges out of agreement. Yet that is what appears to be happening with respect to the politics of authorizing...

In a post this weekend, to which both Jack and Ben have already written responses, Glenn Greenwald suggests the Khorasan group is a "wholesale concoction" that appeared "seemingly out of nowhere" in the ...

(Author's note: Apologies to Geoff and everyone else - I somehow managed to delete the last couple of paragraphs of this post when it went up.  I'll recover them--including the part of the post that actu...

Today's New York Times opened with an above-the-fold story entitled "Spy Agencies Urge Caution on Phone Deal."  The Wall Street Journal had a similar report, about "Security Concerns Arise with Phone Dat...

Jack is very generous to Glenn Greenwald in his post earlier today, in which he notes areas where he agrees with what he terms Greenwald's "skeptical takedown of the factual basis for the attacks on the ...

It's not.

Glenn Greenwald has a skeptical takedown of the factual basis for the attacks on the Khorasan Group (KG) in Syria, and the American Press’s complicity, based on anonymous USG sources, in spreading war-mo...

Apple has encrypted its iPhone6 for real, that is, removing the backdoor for government warrants. The FBI is erupting, claiming that that this will create problems for law enforcement, raising the specte...

Diane Webber, a British lawyer who recently did a lengthy study of detention law in a variety of countries, writes in with the following account of the European Court of Human Rights decision earlier thi...