Polling on Government Overreach Depends on Party in Power
This was a good day for this poll to come out. A new Gallup survey finds that Americans believe government has overreached. The irony of that coming out today, when the US completed the executive...
View ArticleSecret OLC Memo Authorized Killing of Anwar al-Awlaki
Charlie Savage digs out the process for authorizing the assassination of Anwar al-Awlaki, killed in Yemen late last month. He wasn’t able to obtain the secret memo from the Office of Legal Counsel...
View ArticleNew York Times Sues DoJ Over FOIA Request for Awlaki Memo
The New York Times sued the Justice Department over their reticence to turn over a memo from the Office of Legal Counsel detailing the argument for how the US government can legally assassinate an...
View ArticleThe Secret Extra-Judicial Killing Program Paid for By Our Tax Dollars
On the foreign policy front, the biggest development of 2011 was not the European crisis, which could still lead to a breakup of the common currency. It was not even the Arab spring. It was the...
View ArticleAnother Iranian Nuclear Scientist Assassinated
One important part of the suspected covert war with Iran, in addition to the drone surveillance and cyberwarfare, concerns the assassination of Iranian nuclear scientists. Several scientists have been...
View ArticleMore on the Murder of Iranian Nuclear Scientists
Glenn Greenwald has a follow-up on his story about the murder of Iranian nuclear scientists, and he calls the incidents what they actually are: Terrorism. Part of the problem here is the pretense that...
View ArticleWyden Wants Information on Targeting of Anwar al-Awlaki
Sen. Ron Wyden has led a lonely battle against state secrecy. He wanted his findings from the Intelligence Committee on what he perceived as a misuse of the Patriot Act to be made public. And now, he...
View ArticleHolder Tries to Explain Targeted Assassination Program
Attorney General Eric Holder helpfully explained when the government can kill you without a trial, in a speech last night at Northwestern University. He didn’t take questions, because he was so crystal...
View ArticleDemocrats, ACLU Seek Disclosure on Patriot Act Interpretation, Drone Program
Ron Wyden and Mark Udall have been waging a lonely battle to make public information about the Justice Department’s interpretation of the Patriot Act, which they claim violates civil liberties in...
View ArticleACLU, CCR Sue Administration Over Targeted Killings of US Citizens
While Kevin’s at the Bradley Manning trial, I’ll pick up on something on his beat. The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center on Constitutional Rights have sued the Obama Administration over the...
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