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Carrie Cordero, Georgetown’s Director of National Security Studies and a former Justice Department official, writes in with this piece on the Boston attacks and possible improvements to our approach to c...
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The Hill reports:
The head of the House Intelligence panel is worried the Justice Department may have jeopardized the public’s safety by allowing a federal judge to read the Boston bombing suspect his Mi...
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Salam al-Marayati, President of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, sent in this piece on the Boston attacks and extremism:
An unfortunate consequence of the Boston Marathon bombings has been this: the si...
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The Ninth Circuit will hear oral argument in Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald on June 3. The civil appeal challenges the power of the Military Commissions’ Convening Authority to prosecute Al-Nashiri before a mi...
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So we learn from this order, handed down yesterday, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.
In a letter filed after the Hedges oral argument, attorneys for the government had cited...
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A very interesting post on the New York Times's FiveThirtyEight blog argues that, while Americans think future terrorist attacks are likely, they're also increasingly "skeptical about sacrificing persona...
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Yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham held a press conference, in which he unsurprisingly lamented the White House's decision not to treat Dzhokhar Tsarnaev as an "enemy combatant."
A transcript is below.
G...
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Among other things, the story describes the defendant's interrogation, Sunday, pursuant to Miranda's public safety exception:
BOSTON — Lying grievously wounded in a hospital bed, the surviving suspect i...
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I suppose this was inevitable: A Twitter hashtag has developed devoted to the proposition that Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is innocent: #Freejahar, for those curious to check it out. Spencer Ackerman describes it ...
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Lawfare's crack team of contributors has been busy invading The Huffington Post. Hot on the heels of Susan and Ritika's excellent backgrounder on Chechnya and Kyrgyzstan, I've posted an article arguing t...
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While the manhunt for one of the Boston bombing suspects was underway Friday, Susan and I wrote up this short annotated bibliography linking to pertinent resources about the conflicts in Chechnya and Kyr...
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The Miranda issue is over. As Wells noted earlier, Tsarnaev made his initial appearance before a magistrate judge, at the hospital, and at that time the judge informed Tsarnaev of his right to remain si...