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Marty Lederman has a terrific post exploring in more detail the First Amendment issues raised by the Begolly indictment. It's a must-read if you are interested in the prospects for prosecuting those who...
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A while back Ben posted about the pressing need for “radical transparency” in the military commissions process. It’s time to say it again: The Pentagon must make it much easier for outsiders to follow t...
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The Washington Post is reporting:
The U.S.
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I want to pile on to Ben's post in defense of NCTC nominee Matt Olsen. Ben notes that some are intimating that Matt somehow is soft on terrorism because the GTMO Review Task Force concluded that some ex...
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An important and interesting indictment issued today (see here for the pdf), in the Eastern District of Virginia.
Emerson Begolly, an American citizen from Pennsyvlania (who already was under arrest aft...
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I was afraid that the nomination of Matthew Olsen to head NCTC would head in this direction.
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In response to my post yesterday about looming habeas litigation alleging that the U.S.
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The last time we covered the progress of the case that I’ll call Al Maqaleh v.
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An article today in The Nation, by Jeremy Scahill, alleges that the CIA operates a proxy detention facility in Mogadishu (the article also alleges a CIA-sponsored training operation for Somali government...
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The European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") yesterday released two judgments regarding the British military's alleged violation, in Iraq, of international human rights law.
In the first case, Al-Skeini ...
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Isn't this interesting.... In a case titled United States v. Kaziu (E.D.N.Y.
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Well, this is timely. The Journal of National Security Law & Policy has just published this 104-page article from David Kris (who recently stepped down as the AAG for the National Security Division at D...