Eric Holder, Preet Bhrara, and Ray Kelly Planning Civilian Terror Trial in Manhattan

By: emptywheel Tuesday July 5, 2011 3:12 pm

Was it just a year ago when we were told it was impossible to hold a civilian terrorist trial in NY? Because that seems to be what DOJ and the NYPD have in mind with alleged -Shabaab leader, Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame, who is accused of multiple counts of material support for terrorism. Our government’s refound [...]

Bin Laden Found By Trolling The Weeds, Not By Torture

By: bmaz Tuesday July 5, 2011 10:15 am

Goldman and Apuzzo have done good work on their story about the analyst who caught bin Laden, but the story is also an instructive primer on what didn’t work, to wit: torture.

Rupert Murdoch’s Hacks

By: emptywheel Tuesday July 5, 2011 5:06 am

How interesting that Rupert Murdoch’s empire was the subject of not one, but two, hacking stories this weekend. You probably heard how, in the US, someone hacked Fox News’ Twitter account in the middle of the night leading into Fourth of July. Shortly thereafter, that thread posted a series of three tweets reporting that Obama [...]

The Drone War on Westphalia

By: emptywheel Monday July 4, 2011 8:48 am

I wrote a snippy post yesterday attacking Benjamin Wittes’ claim that we’ve had a public debate about drones. But I wanted to do a more substantive post about something missing from the drone debate. I believe that drones are a tool that presents a heightened threat to the concept of sovereignty, for better or worse. [...]

Our “Public Debate” about Drones Is a State Secret

By: emptywheel Sunday July 3, 2011 2:32 pm

While I often disagree with Benjamin Wittes, I rarely think the stuff he writes is sheer nonsense. This post, which attempts to rebut Eugene Robinson’s column on Assassination by Robot, is an exception. I disagree, respectfully, with most of his post. But this bit I find just mindboggling. My former colleague Eugene Robinson has a [...]

The WikiLeaks Suit against Visa and MasterCard

By: emptywheel Sunday July 3, 2011 7:07 am

You may have heard that WikiLeaks is suing Visa and MasterCard for refusing to process donations to it. That’s not actually the case. Forbes has gotten a copy of the complaint, and as it lays out, an Icelandic company called DataCell is suing, and it’s suing in Europe, not the US. DataCell is basically a [...]

DSK Case Collapse: Lawyers, Phone Calls & Money the Shit Hits The Fan

By: bmaz Saturday July 2, 2011 3:54 am

The criminal case against Dominique Strauss-Kahn is over, at least in anything but the most technical of senses; now the focus shifts to the underlying dynamics and lawyering on the case.

Obama’s “Evolution” Accelerates: DOJ Formally Declares DOMA Unconstitutional

By: bmaz Friday July 1, 2011 10:32 pm

In a late filing in the Northern District of California (NDCA) case of Golinski v. US Department of Personnel Management, the Department of Justice has formally stated that the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) is unconstitutional.

Whither Stephen Kappes?

By: emptywheel Friday July 1, 2011 10:01 am

As I suggested yesterday, the investigation into Gul Rahman’s death means there’s a chance–teeny, presumably, but a chance nevertheless–that the investigation might move beyond the formerly-low level people implicated in the death (remember, both the guy who headed the Salt Pit and the station chief have gone onto bigger and better things at the CIA, [...]

Michael Mukasey’s Torture Apologies

By: emptywheel Friday July 1, 2011 6:20 am

After the Osama bin Laden killing, Michael Mukasey rather shamelessly took the lead in claiming torture had some role in finding OBL. I thought then that the sheer volume of the torture apologists’ wails suggested that John Durham’s torture investigation might actually move forward in some way. But I was particularly struck by Mukasey’s prominence. [...]

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