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Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source for...
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I have only had a chance to skim this lengthy opinion by U.S. District Judge James Gwin allowing a suit against Don Rumsfeld and others to proceed on some counts. But it appears to allege quite remarkab...
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Josh Gerstein at the Politico is reporting:
The Obama administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to seek dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by Muslims who claim that the FBI conducted swe...
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Slate's Dahlia Lithwick has posted excerpts from the Aspen Security Forum event to which I linked on Sunday.
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Nicholas Schmidle has a piece up at the New Yorker providing the most detailed account I've yet seen of the raid that killed bin Laden. It's a gripping read, obviously very well informed by JSOC sources...
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Check out the composition of this panel--which must of stressed all of Dahlia Lithwick's copious social skills to keep civil.
I haven't watched it yet, but I thought I would flag it for interested reade...
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Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood writes:
The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War ...
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The UK Human Rights Blog has this analysis of the British government's detainee inquiry, which is just getting off the ground.
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Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine has a lengthy profile on the magazine's web site of William Welch, who is the Justice Department's point man on leaks cases.
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Several House committee chairs have sent this letter regarding the Warsame case to President Obama.
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The Washington Post is reporting:
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Guess what? Human Rights Watch still wants to prosecute former President George W. Bush for torture. You knew that already? Yeah, so did I.