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Last week, two defense motions were released in United States v.
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Here is the Government’s brief in support of its summary judgment motion in response to requests by the NYT and ACLU for records on targeted killings, especially with regard to U.S. citizens. This is t...
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Today's report includes the boilerplate-for-such-documents "consistent with the War Powers Resolution" phrase. It also includes the excerpt below regarding counterterrorism efforts in Yemen and Somalia:...
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Craig Whitlock has a very interesting piece in the Washington Post today, the main thrust of which is to describe the military's efforts to establish aerial surveillance capacity across wide swaths of Af...
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A few final thoughts on the topic of DC Circuit fidelity to Hamdi and Boumediene, for the three people still paying attention to us (hi Mom!).
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At the risk of boring readers who have long-since grown tired of this exchange, let me just offer three quick responses to Bobby's thoughtful intervention in the back-and-forth between Ben and me on whet...
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Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc...
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Ben asks: "What are the specific 'requirements' the Supreme Court laid out in Boumediene or Hamdi that the D.C. Circuit has refused to honor such that habeas review is not 'meaningful' within the meaning...
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That's the outcome of orders from the Supreme Court today, an across-the-board denial of review in seven Guantanamo habeas cases: Latif, Al-Bihani, Uthman, Almerfedi, Al-Kandari, Al-Madhwani, and Al-Alwi...
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Paul makes a good point that digital technology and data analytics make it easier for the government to track journalists’ movements and ascertain the persons in government with whom they communicate. C...
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Jack has already posted, while I was in transit, Dan Klaidman's account of the White House's sponsoring of leaks in connection with the Baitullah Mehsud drone strike. The full account reads as follows:
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Andy McCarthy has an interesting post on the just-opened leak investigations. He garners more reasons than I did to think that many of the recent high-profile leaks – not just on drones, but also on the...