Apropos of our discussion last week about "Taming the Cyber Dragon" today's New York Times has an extensive report on how China's army is directly linked to hacking inside the United States.  For those w...

Over at the emptywheel blog, Ms. Wheel (aka Marcy Wheeler) has done a handy side-by-side of Attorney General Holder's Northwestern speech and the leaked White Paper.

Further to Jack's post yesterday on the politics of drones versus enhanced interrogation, and my post earlier in the week about Peter Baker's article about the mounting criticism of the Obama Administrat...

While Ben has often mocked the New York Times for its opinions, the Washington Post has mostly escaped our attention.  To a large degree this reflects the level-headedness of its opinions.  So when it sl...

They are available here.  Lots of interesting stuff on a first quick read, but two thing stand out.  First, in response to the question “Could the Administration carry out drone strikes inside the United...

I'm not sure if this is by accident or on purpose, but the New York Times yesterday proposed advanced judicial review of a huge swath of targeting in warfare against terrorist groups. Consider the first...

We return from an hour’s break, with some GTMO press refreshed by milkshakes purchased from Fort Meade’s Burger King.  A video teleconference with CDR Jennifer Strazza, our next witness, awaits.  Some nu...

Nine minutes past the hour, and the session resumes with some bickering about delays.  Recess was supposed to last until 1300, but, alas, we’ve reconvened a bit after that.   Judge Pohl wants an explanat...

“The commission is called to order,” Judge Pohl says.  Back to CDR Walter Ruiz, and his witness: the Convening Authority, with a visage grainy in the video-teleconference monitor (itself piped to us here...

The Convening Authority, Ret. Adm. Bruce MacDonald, is sworn. CDR Walter Ruiz, lawyer for accused Mustafa al-Hawsawi, rises to question him.  It will be a quick-ish examination, evidently, as Judge Pohl...

Romance is in the air---and waves of the purest judicial authority---as Judge Pohl calls our session to order.  The five men accused of planning 9/11 are present in the courtroom, along with lawyers for ...