-
Attorney General Eric Holder will apparently give a public address on Monday that will provide a fuller explanation and justification for the government's policies on targeted killings, including for the...
-
Never fear, Ben! While the Times may have disappointed you today, NPR has stepped into the breach this morning with its Guantanamo anniversary story.
To be frank, I'm more than a little surprised by th...
-
...that Brookings is "conservative leaning"--at least according to MSNBC.
-
The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...
-
Last week Charlie Savage had an interesting follow-up to his well-known 2007 questions to the presidential candidates about their views on executive power. The most important line in Savage’s story is t...
-
At least, Adam Liptak does in a well-worth-reading column about Latif. Take that, editorial staff!
On a more serious note, here's the money quote:
Latif is the next great Guantánamo case--whether the Su...
-
-
A bunch of readers have written to me since I posted this little item questioning whether New York Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal got it wrong when he wrote that:
When President Obama came in...
-
New York Times editorial page editor Andy Rosenthal, in his Loyal Opposition blog, opens a post this morning on the NDAA by saying,
When President Obama came into office in 2009 he promised to shut down ...
-
The Republican presidential candidates debated national security and foreign policy issues last night in Washington. Ritika teed up the debate here with links to the Post’s preview of issues to watch and...
-
The eight Republican candidates for president will gather tonight for their trillionth twelfth debate at 8 PM tonight, in an event that will focus on national security and foreign policy.
-
What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...