US Assassinates Saif Qaddafi and Three Qaddafi Grandsons
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bmazA Nato air strike in the Libyan capital, Tripoli, has killed the son and three grandsons of the Libyan leader, Colonel Gaddafi, a government spokesman has said
Two WMD Terrorists, the President's Daily Briefing, and Lone Wolves
This Time article is designed to be a swan song to Robert Mueller's career; it builds over almost 6,500 words to the conclusion that, "Most people inside the bureau believe that the blown opportunities to head off 9/11 would not recur today."…
Bradley Manning Protest: White House Bans Journalist for Doing Journalism
To a degree, this reminds me of the Joshua Claus moment, when DOD banned reporters like Carol Rosenberg and Michelle Shephard because they uttered the name "Joshua Claus" in their coverage of his testimony in Omar Khadr's trial. (Shephard had…
The Blowjob that Shall Not Be Named
Politico has a festival of stupidity on yesterday's release by Obama of his long form birth certificate. The varieties of stupid in the article include:
Ignoring the real precedent of the blowjob that shall not be named
Blaming birtherism…
Saifullah Paracha's Gitmo File Contains Suspect Details, but His Defense Attorney Can't Point Them Out
I'm going to be in transit for another half day yet, but I wanted to comment on this motion David Remes, Gitmo detainee Saifullah Paracha's attorney, filed to request emergency access to the Detainee Assessment Brief on his client released by…
Tom Brady et. al v. The National Football League Stay Decision
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bmazJudge Susan Nelson of Minnesota District Court has denied the stay of her decision on Monday lifting the lockout imposed by the owners collectively acting as the National Football League. Here is the hard hitting order denying the say and granting the players a temporary victory.
Roberts Court Sticks Another Dagger In the Back Of Consumers
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bmazThe Supreme Court has given big business a huge gift with its decision today in AT&T v. Concepcion.
The Cover Story that Serves as a Cover Story
Check out this sentence, which appears at the end of the Executive Summary of a document purporting to debunk the "cover stories" of detainees who claimed to have traveled to Afghanistan to teach the Koran.
Mujahideen that traveled to Afghanistan…
The Drone "Debate" and Friendly Fire
Last week, Spencer reported on an Air Force contract for software to move towards self-piloted drones.
The Air Force recently gave Stottler Henke Associates $100,000 to deliver a software package that can keep drones from colliding into human-piloted…
Tortured Confessions and the Gitmo Protection Orders
An unfortunate side effect of the NYT and NPR's attempt to preempt WikiLeaks' embargo on the Gitmo Files is that their coverage--rather than the coverage of those who had been working on the files for several weeks--got the most attention. Notably,…
Illegal Wiretap Leak Probe Dropped
According to Josh Gerstein, DOJ decided not to charge anyone in the illegal wiretap leak probe.
The Justice Department has dropped its long-running criminal investigation of a lawyer who publicly admitted leaking information about President…
DOJ Warns Gitmo Defense Attorneys Not to Use Gitmo Files
The defense attorneys representing detainees at Gitmo in habeas proceedings received this email today.
Subject: Information in the public domain 2nd reminder
All:
As many of you have undoubtedly heard or read, government documents that…
The US Training Manuals al Qaeda Used
Back in April 2009, I wrote a post outlining how purported al Qaeda training manuals formed the basis of Bruce Jessen and James Mitchell's torture program.
The SASC Report on Detainee Treatment reveals that some information collected from al…
The Gitmo Documents Reveal Disparities between US and Other Countries' Assessment of Risk
I'm working on weedy readings of the Gitmo Files released today. But I wanted to note the important revelation--and the source of the government's concerns--regarding the release.
These files assess how big a risk these prisoners are. And…
The Gitmo Files: Abu Zubaydah's File
As bmaz posted, WikiLeaks is (finally) releasing the Gitmo Files, review files on 758 of the detainees who have passed through Gitmo. For background, here's the story Carol Rosenberg (with Tom Lasseter) wrote about the files. Among other things,…
Gitmo Detainee Files Working Thread
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bmazA working thread for the Gitmo detainee files release.
Happy Easter
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bmaz.
Hi folks, Happy Easter! It has been a pretty frustrating week on a lot of the fronts we follow here. There are far too many such weeks. Even the one piece of positive news, the reinstating of the charges against the Blackwater Nisour Square…
Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
There are two key takeaways I get from this comprehensive WaPo piece on why Gitmo will never close.
First, after just one Congressman--VA's Frank Wolf--bitched about the plan to bring innocent Uighurs to the US, the plan was shut down (apparently…
Obama Pretends the Bob Woodward Law Doesn't Exist
Yesterday, Michael Whitney pointed out how irresponsible it was for the ultimate commander of all the people who will decide Bradley Manning's innocence or guilt to state publicly, before his trial, that "he broke the law." But there was…
DC Circuit Reinstates Blackwater Nisour Shooting Prosecution
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bmazThe Blackwater Nisour Square shooting prosecution may be back on for now, but I would not be surprised in the least to see the case dismissed again. Here is why.
