I. Surveillance and Data Collection
- Thomas Earnest, Lost in the Bulk Collection Debate — Fifth Circuit Affirms Life Sentence of Khalid Ali-M Aldawsari (Friday, Jan 24)
- Barry Friedman, Guest Post: Section 215 Telephone Metadata Collection: The Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board Trashes Pretty Much Everyone (Thursday, Jan. 23)
- Jameel Jaffer, Privacy Board Debunks Purported Justification for NSA’s Phone-Records Dragnet (Thursday, Jan. 23)
- Thomas Earnest, PCLOB Releases Report, Recommends Government End §215 Program (Thursday, Jan. 23)
- Steve Vladeck, Does “Espionage Porn” Make Us Stronger? (Thursday, Jan. 23)
- Thomas Earnest, Balancing the Public Interest in Disclosures (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
- Marty Lederman, Jack Goldsmith on the “Front-Page Rule” (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
- Steve Vladeck, Which Congressional NSA Reform Proposals Will the Obama Administration Now Support? (Saturday, Jan. 18)
- David Cole, The Disconnect between Theory and Practice in Obama’s NSA Speech (Saturday, Jan 18)
II. Targeted Killings and Drones
- Ryan Goodman, General Stanley McChrystal Discusses the Downsides of Drones (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
- Harold Hongju Koh, POTUS’ view on who counts as Al Qaeda (Monday, Jan. 20)
- Ryan Goodman, UK Court Rules against Alleged Pakistani Drone Victim (Noor Khan) (Monday, Jan. 20)
III. Detention and Treatment
- Amrit Singh, Guest Post: A $15 Million Dollar Torture Partnership (Friday, Jan. 24)
- Derek Jinks, An Inauspicious Anniversary: It’s Time to Release the Report of the Special Interagency Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies (Thursday, Jan. 23)
- Marty Lederman, Understanding What it Means to be “Approved for Transfer”: A Response to Lawrence Rosenthal (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
- Lawrence Rosenthal, Guest Post: The Constitutional Case for Judicial Authority To Order the Transfer and Release of Guantánamo Detainees Cleared for Release (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
IV. Trials
- Beth Van Schaack, Trials in Absentia Under International & Domestic Law (Saturday, Jan. 18)
V. Afghanistan, Syria, and Yemen
- Ryan Goodman, Gates v. Biden on Afghanistan: What the Media Coverage Doesn’t Tell You (Saturday, Jan. 18)
- Beth Van Schaack, Horrific New Evidence of Syrian War Crimes Emerges (Tuesday, Jan. 21)
- Beth Van Schaack, Yemen Immunity in Jeopardy? (Monday, Jan. 20)
VI. Gender and Counterterrorism
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Reflections on Russia’s Hunt for “Black Widows” (Wednesday, Jan. 22)
VII. Miscellaneous
- Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, A “Right to be Forgotten” (Monday, Jan. 20)
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