I had an odd meeting of the minds today—with Glenn Greenwald.
After I posted my bewildered comments on President Obama’s Guantanamo remarks this afternoon, I received the following email from Greenwald:
So glad you wrote this—it’s been driving
Kevin Jon Heller has responded to my earlier comments on his earlier post—which itself responded to my exchange with Glenn Greenwald. I’m not going to respond to Kevin’s latest piece, in large measure because I think it almost … Read more »
Benjamin Farley writes in with the following comments on my exchange with Kevin Jon Heller and Glenn Greenwald:
I just read your post responding to Kevin Jon Heller’s response to your conversation with Greenwald regarding the comparison of children
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a piece commenting on Glenn Greenwald’s and my recent discussion of the difference between the accidental killing of children with drones and the intentional killing of children at Newtown. It opens:… Read more »
Glenn Greenwald has this lengthy and passionate piece on why Americans respond so differently to the killings in Newtown from the way they respond to the deaths of children killed in drone strikes. “There’s just no denying that many of … Read more »
As I posted in my news roundup yesterday, a drone strike in South Waziristan killed two militants, according to the Express Tribune and Dawn. This seemed like an interesting real-time case study for media coverage of civilian casualty … Read more »
I am hereby ending my boycott of Glenn Greenwald.
I’m doing it not because his latest post about me refrained from personal attack or adopted the sort of civil tone to which I think the public debate should aspire. It … Read more »
This is a very weird column by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, acknowledging that the Times has broken important stories about the CIA’s drones program and has sought more information using FOIA on the drones program, nonetheless … Read more »
I was distressed this evening to receive a note from Ms. Tangerine Bolen, executive director of RevolutionTruth and one of the plaintiffs in the Hedges case, in response to this post from the other day. In that post, … Read more »
I received the following email just now–the first time in my life, and I suspect the last, that I ever been confused with a certain blogger over at Salon.com:
From: Lucas Vazquez
Subj: NDAA Lawsuit Q&A Invitation
Hello
Over at Opinio Juris, Kevin Jon Heller has a post complaining about Leon Panetta’s recent lament that “[i]t is so difficult to understand and it’s so disturbing that [Pakistan] would sentence this doctor to 33 years for helping in … Read more »
In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, and 83 percent (including 77 percent of liberal Democrats) said … Read more »
As Lawfare readers know only too well, I don’t engage with He Who Must Not Be Named on this Blog. I do, however, engage with Seema Saifee, who represents four Guantanamo Uighurs (three of whom are no longer detained … Read more »
Mark Erickson, who blogs under the most-unfortunate handle Norwegian Shooter, recently published some correspondence with me concerning his claim that the reported OLC memo reflects Lord Acton-style corruption on the part of its authors. Erickson–who, to be fair, he … Read more »
A senior administration lawyer involved in national security issues writes in with the following:
I read the commentary by He Who Must Not Be Named On This Blog on the killing of Aulaqi, and while I understand that you refuse
Over at Salon.com, He Who Must Not Be Named on This Blog is upset by the fact that what he terms the “the due process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality.”
…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
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
On Saturday, March 5 at 1:00 pm, I will be speaking about Detention and Denial at Politics and Prose in Washington D.C. The event announcement is available here. Readings at Politics and Prose have a special resonance for me. … 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 »
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 »
I’m a little bit grouchy that the argument I made in this speech I keep linking to isn’t more a part of the debate over continuity and change between the Bush and Obama administrations than it is. It’s not just … Read more »
Over at Mother Jones, Nick Baumann accuses me of arguing against straw terrorists. Quoting a Lawfare post from a little while back in which I posited that the alternative to reserving the option of lethal force against Anwar Al Aulaqi … Read more »
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 »
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 »
