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Here is the statement by Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell and Ambassador Dan Fried, Special Envoy for Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Facility in response to the New York Times story to which I just ...
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I can't fathom right now who should be most upset--the government or the detainee bar--by this story in the New York Times:
WASHINGTON — A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides ne...
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It isn't every day that a representative of the National Security Agency gives a public speech on the agency's understanding of "Protecting Civil Liberties in a Cyber Age." So I thought I would take good...
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Steve Aftergood is reporting at Secrecy News:
The Senate Intelligence Committee is proposing to punish leaks of classified information by authorizing intelligence agencies to seize the pension benefits o...
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As part of my blood oath to spend the next few years writing on subjects other than detention, I have just released this paper on the inadequacy of privacy as a conceptual framework for regulating person...
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Josh Rogin has an intriguing post up over at the Cable, detailing an interview with HPSCI Chairman Mike Rogers (R-MI) concerning the ongoing debate regarding whether to arm the Libyan rebels. There is m...
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The major significance of the FBI's Miranda memo, in my view, having now read it, is two-fold. First, it essentially states a policy of exploiting fully the Quarles public safety exception to Miranda in ...
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Charlie Savage of the New York Times has posted the text of the FBI's new guidance on Miranda. I'll post thoughts after I've had a chance to digest it.
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The other day, Bobby posted a link to the the Second Circuit’s recent decision in Amnesty International v.
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A few thoughts worth bearing in mind in light of the FBI “guidance” memo Ben describes below and the considerable attention it is generating.
There is a tendency in this debate to conflate rules of evid...
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Evan Perez of the Wall Street Journal has this very interesting piece reporting that "New rules allow investigators to hold domestic-terror suspects longer than others without giving them a Miranda warni...
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This is the final installment in my series of posts on the post-Executive Order spree of legislation emerging from Capitol Hill. It concerns the interrogation bill introduced by Sen.