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Benjamin Weiser of the New York Times has the story:
Sulaiman Abu Ghaith, the most senior adviser to Osama bin Laden to be tried in a civilian United States court since the Sept. 11 attacks, was convict...
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Andrew Beaujon at Poynter reports that at last week’s Sources and Secrets conference, NYT reporter James Risen, who is fighting a subpoena for information in the Jeffrey Sterling trial, made these remark...
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I’ve already written at some length about the D.C. Circuit’s decision last month in Aamer v.
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Another belated post: last week, a district court in Maryland dismissed a ATS and TVPA lawsuit filed in 2011 by members of the Chinese Falun Gong a group of Chinese dissidents against Cisco Systems, the ...
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I am late in reporting that last month the Second Circuit affirmed the dismissal of the ATS and TVPA suit against former President Zedillo of Mexico, based on the Suggestion of Immunity signed by my succ...
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Ken Dilanian has a story on Acting CIA General Counsel Robert Eatinger (whom Caroline Krass, just confirmed, will succeed.) Eatinger is at the center of the fracas between CIA and SCCI because he sent a...
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You can find the Senator's statement here.
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Right now, Senator Dianne Feinstein, the Senate Intelligence Committee's Chairman, is speaking out, on the Senate floor, about a well-publicized dispute between the CIA and the SSCI---regarding the latte...
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When last we debated the Government’s legal authority to kill an American terrorist overseas, some big-ticket questions had to do with proof: exactly how much evidence would be required before executive ...
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Another tidbit from the NYT story Ben just flagged:
It is unclear what Mr. Obama’s position is on whether Mr. Shami should be targeted. American officials said that as part of the new rules ordered by Mr.
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The estimable Benjamin Weiser of the excellent New York Times news staff wrote me this afternoon response to my post earlier today about the government's motion for pseudononymous testimony in the Sulaim...
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Speaking of the Sulaiman Abu Gayth case in Judge Lewis Kaplan's courtroom in New York, check out this briefing.