…sent this in from Huffington Post:

SHODDY RAT REMOVAL IN DIRKSEN CAFETERIA: WHERE’S THE HOPE AND CHANGE?Amanda Terkel was on the Hill today for, you know, reporting and stuff. While there, she witnessed just what has become of pest

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Two quick comments on today’s New York Times editorial:

First, the Times begins with a remarkable normative assertion: “In bringing justice to those accused of plotting the Sept. 11 attacks, it will never be possible to have military trials … Read more »

Yesterday, I wondered how the New York Times would treat Attorney General Holder’s announcement of a military commission trial for the September 11 conspirators: “Will the Times praise Holder for respecting the rule of law by holding the 9/11 conspirators … Read more »

The New York Times editorial today contains a notable omission: It does not say that the long-term detention of people at Guantanamo Bay is illegal. For those who have followed my quixotic campaign (here and here and here, … Read more »

My friend Steve Walt weighs in against media patriotism.  But he gives the game away, I think, when he says: “There are undoubtedly some narrow circumstances when a patriotic journalist should decline to publish something they have learned, such … Read more »

Glenn Greenwald has an interesting response to my post on the patriotism of American media, but he exaggerates the significance of the media’s patriotic bent, and he misses some important points.

To begin with the obvious, American journalists regularly publish … Read more »

In its story last week about the ties between the CIA and Raymond Davis, the American recently arrested in Pakistan, the New York Times offered this explanation for why it sat on the story:

The New York Times had agreed

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Eugene Volokh agrees with me that the New York Times editorial page is being less than candid about the legality of non-criminal detention. He writes:

the Times is not simply saying that particular detentions might be illegal, for instance because

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Lawfare readers who have followed my mini-crusade (here, here, and here, for example) to get the New York Times to stop willfully misrepresenting the legality of military detention in its editorials will be amused by this … Read more »

A few weeks ago, I received an email from a producer inviting me to participate in a “debate+discussion with Glenn [Greenwald] about the legality of the Predator strikes.” I responded, “I would be happy to discuss the subject . . … Read more »

Believe it or not, this blog does have a higher purpose than to send Glenn Greenwald into paroxysms of rage–though I confess that such paroxysms are great fun when we happen to provoke them, and they seem to be … Read more »

The New York Times editorial page has really outdone itself this time. I’m afraid I can no longer hedge my account of the way it is treating the subject of the legality of  detention. The Times editorial writers are knowingly … Read more »

Bobby is quite right to link yesterday’s New York Times editorial to the one about which I complained back in October. But Bobby is a more generous soul than I am, and I am disinclined to give the Times’ editorial … Read more »

In an editorial that ran on Monday, the Times took up the laudable task of defending the administration’s plans to substantially enhance the procedural safeguards associated with the annual review board process for GTMO detainees.  All to the good if … Read more »

Here’s a little cautionary tale about life in the information anarchy in which we all exist today. It is, I suspect, a metaphor for something, though I’m not sure what. I pass it on as it may amuse some readers … Read more »

“Follow the Money” reads the headline of today’s New York Times editorial, which–along with the news story that inspired it–rank among the most hypocritical journalism I have read in a while. The editorial laments that,

Nine years

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I have a lot of regard for Jeffrey Goldberg, and partly for that reason, I’m a little taken aback by these comments made to Mother Jones concerning Anwar Al-Aulaqi. Goldberg has been on overdrive recently about new airport security … Read more »

General Michael Hayden, former Director of the CIA and the NSA, gave an interesting speech on the media and national security last Friday at the Newseum’s conference last Friday on Criminal Law, National Security, and the First Amendment.  (Hayden’s … Read more »

I was amused, in reading Judge Bates’ Khan opinion just now, to run across the judge’s account of the scope of the government’s detention authority–amused because the New York Times this morning editorialized that holding people in prolonged military detention … Read more »

When I wrote my post this morning on the debate over the Shahzad sentence, I hadn’t yet read the New York Times’s editorial insisting that “Supporters of the tribunals at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who insist military justice, not the federal … Read more »

The New York Times editorial page today notes that the Faizal Shahzad prosecution culimatined in a life sentence within less than six months of his attempt to bomb Times Square, and points out the rather sharp contrast this makes in … Read more »

This morning, I had a bit of correspondence with an administration lawyer in response to my critique of the New York Times’s state secrets editorial. This lawyer agreed with my argument, but made an additional one concerning the integrity … Read more »

As a former editorial writer of almost a decade, I find my sense of craft offended by this editorial on the state secrets privilege in the New York Times the other day. Put simply, it bugs me that the paper … Read more »