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Results tagged “national security”
Nov 10 2009, 1:14PM
Justice Department's GTMO Decision: What To Expect
Ahead of a November 16 deadline, the Justice Department is readying a decision on how to bring some of Guantanamo's most infamous detainees to trial.Officials insist that as of last...
Sep 30 2009, 4:07PM
Supreme Court To Hear Major National Security Case
The Supreme Court has decided to take a bundle of cases that could change the way the Justice Department prosecutes terrorism suspects and could well change the way current prosecutions...
Apr 28 2009, 2:22PM
Appeals Court Limits State Secrets Privilege To "Evidence" Not Immunity
A federal appeals court, ruling unanimously, told the federal government today that it could not assert the long-standing "state secrets privilege" to throw out entire civil cases before the discovery...
Apr 24 2009, 1:16PM
Air Condition 1 Over Washington...
We just had one of those airspace violations in DC, resulting in breathless cable news coverage and brief lockdowns at the White House and Capitol. I happened to be listening...
Apr 24 2009, 11:53AM
Why Obama Doesn't Care About Yoo
The Atlantic's coverage of the first 100 days of the Obama presidency begins next week, assuming the geeks don't rise. But this blog will focus on the second 100 days....
Apr 22 2009, 10:57AM
Why Won't The Administration Use "Torture"?
The word, not the practice. Greg Sargent's White House sources tell him that there was no "intentional" shift in language -- that there's no rhyme or reason for using "enhanced...
Apr 20 2009, 1:47PM
The Intelligence Wars
Step into the wilderness of mirrors here, for a moment. Let's try to put three headline stories together.Item 1: the New York Times reports on an NSA gone wild --...
Apr 13 2009, 12:35PM
Obama's Coming Clash With Congress On "State Secrets"
They no-commented me last week, and they're stonewalling Greg Sargent this week: the White House refuses to say whether the President supports the State Secrets Protection Act in Congress. As...
Apr 7 2009, 12:35PM
Shut Up: It's Still A Secret
The Obama Administration still wants to keep its secrets. Yesterday, the Justice Department embraced the argument that the state secrets privilege - a fancy phrase denoting the executive branch's common...
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