Over at Attackerman, Spencer Ackerman has written two posts (here and here) posing challenging question about the legality of the Al Aulaqi strike; in the second post, he also critiques my earlier due process analysis of when a … Read more »
Largely overlooked in Judge Kaplan’s Ghailani Order is his statement that Ghailani’s “status as an ‘enemy combatant’ probably would permit his detention as something akin to prisoner of war until hostilities between the United States and Al Qaeda and the … 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 »
Ben points out that one can easily overstate the lessons to be learned from yesterday’s life sentence for Faizal Shahzad, it terms of the debate concerning civilian prosecution/military prosecution/military detention. Much the same no doubt can be said about today’s … 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 »
Josh Gerstein of the Politico has an excellent story on the dumb debate going on over how to read the life sentence Faisal Shahzad received yesterday.
Here’s the White House:
“We are pleased that this terrorist has been sentenced to
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy. They write:
While neither we nor the critics know the circumstances behind the prosecutors’ decision to issue this subpoena, we do know from the government’s public disclosures that the prosecutors were right to investigate this leak
