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Here is the letter sent today from the White House (courtesy of John Brennan) to Senator Rockefeller. It begins:
The executive branch national security team - including civilian, military and intelligen...
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Last week, Stewart Baker at Skating on Stilts described the leaked draft Executive Order on Cybersecurity (which he had not seen) as "focused." Maybe so, but at 19 pages it seems rather less so to me. ...
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David Remes---who, in addition to representing several Guantanamo detainees, is a member of the plaintiffs' legal team in Hedges v. Obama---sent in this note yesterday:
The debate on this blog about Jud...
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Senators McCain, Hutchinson and Chambliss have an op ed in the Wall St.
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Raha Wala of Human Rights First writes in with the following response to my comments on Hedges. My thoughts follow his critique and very-cautious defense of Judge Forrest:
Ben’s post on Judge Forrest’s o...
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I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.
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I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts.
The opinion...
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I haven't read it yet, but here it is.
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Details available from Skating on Stilts -- HT: Stewart Baker. I'll have some analysis and thoughts later this weekend.
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I'm happy to report that I've recently completed drafting an article that has been much on my mind for the past few years. Beyond the Battlefield, Beyond al Qaeda: The Destabilizing Legal Architecture o...
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From Courthouse New Service:
Invoking the mass detention of Japanese-Americans during World War II, a federal judge on Tuesday appeared ready to uphold her injunction against the law that lets the U.S. ...
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I am on vacation, and blogging only minimally, so I missed this week's hearing before Judge Katherine Forrest on the plaintiff's request for a permanent injunction in Hedges. Seeing as how the argument t...