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I've long been a huge fan of (Retired) Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, not least because his prized possessions include a scorecard from Game 3 of the 1932 World Series--better known to baseball...
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Published by Oxford UP (Paperback 2015)
Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson
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That's the news from the Pentagon this hour. Preston will step down from his position as General Counsel at the end of June to join the faculty at Yale Law School.
The Defense Department released the fo...
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A markup of the FY2016 defense bill---which includes, as per usual and among other things, provisions restricting transfers of Guantanamo detainees---will get underway at 10:00 a.m. at the House Armed Se...
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Senators Leahy and Lee introduced a new version of the USA Freedom Act today to scale back surveillance authorities, including limiting the use of Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act for bulk collection, ...
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This actually happened last week, but Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has introduced and fast-tracked a bill (S. 1035) to extend through the year 2019 three USA Patriot Act provisions set to expir...
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From my book Data and Goliath:
...when I was working with the Guardian on the Snowden documents, the one top-secret program the NSA desperately did not want us to expose
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Everyone should read Bobby's post from last night on the potential approach of an endgame for the 122 detainees still in custody at Guantánamo.
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The Washington Post has the latest here. Key points:
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It's getting hard to keep track of the U.S. intelligence community leakers without a scorecard.
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For the past couple of weeks, a Saudi-led coalition has been engaged in a substantial air campaign against Houthi forces in Yemen.
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Today, the House Homeland Security Committee marked up a cybersecurity information sharing bill that promised to be “the best of bunch” in terms of civil liberties protections among the cybersecurity inf...