" On April 3, when the Senate Intelligence Committee votes on whether to declassify its report on the CIA’s post-9/11 torture practices, the members of the committee should keep in mind...
June 2014"When Congress passed the Military Commissions Act in October 2006, one major concern was that the intended targets of the statute - 9/11 plotters and Al Qaeda members recently transferred to...
September 2014Activists Press Challenge Over 'Animal Enterprise Terrorism' Law Jamie Schuman , Supreme Court Brief September 3, 2014 A First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act is now before...
Trouble playing the video? Watch it here . With 18 months left in his presidency, will Barack Obama be able to follow through on his oft-stated goal of closing Guantánamo Bay? A shifting relationship...
Updated: December 15, 2015
Shayana Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights joins the Up w/ Steve Kornacki panel to discuss the Department of Justice probe into the Associated Press’ phone records, and how a pattern is...
Updated: August 10, 2015
September 2, 2015In August, I was down at Guantánamo to represent Mohammed Kamin, an Afghan detainee who has been held at the prison for almost eleven years. (I left a six-month-old baby boy at home to travel to...
November 4, 2015“ Guantánamo Is Leaving Obama With Choices, Neither of Them Simple ” (news article, Nov. 1) is wrong to imply that President Obama has only two choices: fail to close Guantánamo or do so by violating...
Amy Davidson and Shane Kadidal discuss how thoroughly a federal court ruling undermines national security claims by the NSA – and White House. Watch the Video here.
Updated: December 15, 2015
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