Ben Fox of the Associated Press has a particularly good account of the situation at Guantanamo. Because it was posted on Friday, amid the late unpleasantness in Boston, most people undoubtedly missed it—so I thought I would flag it … Read more »
As Ben and Gregory McNeal posted earlier, the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Counterterrorism and Human Rights, Ben Emmerson, issued this statement on March 14 after a three-day visit to Pakistan, in which he concluded that U.S. drone strikes are, … Read more »
Filed March 14th in the U.S. District Court of Hawaii: a criminal complaint against a civilian defense contractor, Benjamin Bishop, for unlawfully leaking national security secrets to his girlfriend. The latter, a Chinese national, allegedly works for the People’s Republic … Read more »
Don’t look now, but a populous Muslim country in the Indian subcontinent is simmering with tension between its Islamist parties and its ruling civilian government. No, I’m not talking about Pakistan. I’m talking about Bangladesh, which has carried out a
Last June, a collection of advocacy and religious organizations, businesses, and individuals in New York City and New Jersey filed a federal lawsuit against the City of New York, alleging the New York City Police Department’s (NYPD) “illegal targeting of … Read more »
I am puzzled by two news reports on USG cyber policy in the last few days. This AP story from Friday surprised me for what it revealed about the lethargic U.S. reaction to the now-many-years-old problem of Chinese cyber exploitations … Read more »
Lots of news coverage this morning about this GAO report, released yesterday by Senator Dianne Feinstein, on housing Guantanamo detainees in the United States. Here’s Spencer Ackerman of Wired Danger Room. Here’s the Associated Press. Here’s the executive … Read more »
The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman’s Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency. The book is shaping up to be a must-read for the Lawfare … Read more »
This morning, Paul flagged a Washington Post op-ed by Senators Coats, Rubio and Burr. The trio’s piece concerns the improper revelation of national security secrets. As one example, the authors cite the recent disruption, by the CIA and a foreign … Read more »
Earlier this week, Kevin Jon Heller and I had an exchange over what the Pakistani doctor who helped the CIA, Akhil Afridi, was actually charged with and convicted of. Writing at Opinio Juris, Kevin dismissed suggestions by Secretary of … Read more »
In a conversation several years ago about what was then simply a hypothesized US military exit from Afghanistan, a friend told me, think of the CIA as the French Foreign Legion. My friend meant by that the long-standing tradition of … Read more »
I have written previously about the pros and cons of the military commission option for Ali Mussa Daqduq, a member of Hezbollah whom we have been holding in military custody in Iraq for some period based on his involvement in … Read more »
The AP’s Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman have a long story out today, focused on the NYPD’s Intelligence Division & Counter-Terrorism Bureau. The story paints NYPD as having developed an unchecked intelligence-collection capacity over the past decade, emphasizing (i) … Read more »
The Washington Post’s Ellen Nakashima is reporting:
A leading computer security firm has used logs produced by a single server to trace the hacking of more than 70 corporations and government organizations over many months, and experts familiar with
Hot on the heels of a National Security Council debate last Thursday concerning whether to reduce the pace or scope of CIA drone strikes in Pakistan (reported by the Wall Street Journal here; please do click through and read … Read more »
The Associated Press is reporting that U.S. forces are using armed Predator drones in Libya:
President Barack Obama has approved the use of armed Predator drone aircraft in Libya to improve the precision of low-level attacks on ground targets, Defense
I’d like to draw attention to a handful of Mexico-related items this afternoon. First, Tracy Wilkinson at the L.A. Times has a terrific piece discussing the degree of cartel control in Reynosa (across the border from McAllen, TX), describing the … Read more »
There are several reports circulating in the media concerning Monday’s drone strike in Pakistan, the one said to have killed a group of men from Germany linked to recent warnings of an impending attack in Europe. Interestingly, they are inconsistent … Read more »
Just a brief follow-up on my earlier complaints about the “scorecard” approach to detainee litigation coverage.
In this post from ten days back, I argued that–among its other problems–the press’s tendency simply to tally wins and losses in Guantanamo habeas … Read more »
In an earlier post I noted that the defense in the Ghailani prosecution (involving a former GTMO detainee now on trial in New York in connection with the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings) seeks to prevent the government from calling … Read more »
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released an interim report on the Department’s handling of “known or suspected” terrorists who have entered the government’s witness protection program. The report found, among other things, that information on some program participants had not been turned over to no-fly list authorities; and, that two such people could not be located—though one… Read more »
