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The New York Times is reporting that the CIA has demanded "extensive cuts from the memoir of a former F.B.I. agent who spent years near the center of the battle against Al Qaeda." Ali Soufan has been a v...
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Thomas Drake, the former NSA employee who was charged with leaking classified information, in a case that collapsed last month, has this oped in the Washington Post today. Money quote:
From 2001 through ...
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The New York Time's Charlie Savage has obtained a copy of former Vice President Cheney's forthcoming memoir. Not a lot in his story about the book that will surprise on matters of interest to readers of ...
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In November 2009, the ACLU brought a suit on behalf of an American citizen--Amir Meshal--against two FBI agents and two unnamed officials, alleging the following: that he went to Somalia in 2006, that he...
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The Congressional Research Service's Charles Doyle reviews proposals in the 112th Congress to amend National Security Letter authority in this report.
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...and guess what? This post is not about any gross factual errors in either of them concerning the legality of detention. Perhaps that's because neither editorial really deals with the legality of deten...
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This case may have almost nothing to do with national security law. But it has infuriated me ever since, as a Post editorial writer some years back, I spent a lot of time writing about criminal justice i...
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I was trying to formulate my mixed feelings about the Vance and Doe decisions when I received the following email from a Lawfare reader.
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Josh Gerstein at the Politico beat me to the punch with a point I have been meaning to make since looking at the Seventh Circuit's Vance decision yesterday: The viability of civil cases against former of...
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Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...
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Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting:
The Justice Department is warning a federal appeals court not to disclose classified information about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program...
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Back in June, I posted the appeal of Jose Padilla and his mother in a civil case against a group of current and former Defense Department officials.