Remember Lynne Stewart? She was the defense attorney convicted of helping her terrorist client Abdel Rahman send messages to his supporters. Stewart acted in violation of an agreement that “she would not “use…meetings, correspondence, or phone calls with Abdel Rahman … Continue reading →
It appears that a military trial for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed is looking mighty good to the Obama administration right about now. The strange thing is that those legal geniuses, Obama and Holder, didn’t see that to begin with. I’m not … Continue reading →
…the House Democrats tried to sneak a provision into an intelligence bill that would ban and criminalize any interrogation tactic that a prosecutor subjectively believes is “degrading,” including but not limited to itemized practices such as “prolonged isolation,” “exploiting the … Continue reading →
These two things are not exactly related, but they seem to go together. First, the good news: Lawyers Yoo and Bybee will face no discipline for writing their memos (my take on a related issue here). Next, the bad: nine … Continue reading →
Why was Amy Bishop not apprehended and incarcerated long ago? Or, at the very least, forced to have an encounter with the mental health system? If this report is true (and I’d like to see a link to the additional … Continue reading →
In an excellent development, the Taliban’s top military commander has been captured in Pakistan: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the group’s No. 2 leader behind Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Mohammad Omar and a close associate of Osama bin Laden, was captured … Continue reading →
As with all such shootings, the mass murder at the University of Alabama, Huntsville is shocking and disturbing. But it has some uniquely shocking factors. The U of A shooting appeared at first to follow a common pattern of workplace … Continue reading →
If you want to follow the twistings and turnings of each, there’s this and this. The latter article seems to put all responsibility for the decision about KSM’s trial on Holder. I’ve always doubted such reports and continue to doubt … Continue reading →
In this post’s comment thread there was a discussion of whether President Obama is making some room under that crowded bus for his Attorney General Eric Holder. Jennifer Rubin has written a piece speculating that this might indeed be the … Continue reading →
Jane Mayer’s puff piece on Eric Holder appeared recently in the New Yorker. Anyone who reads blogs or periodicals on the right, and who has followed the controversies involving Holder’s decisions about the KSM trial and the Christmas bomber—especially Andrew … Continue reading →
…trying KSM at Gitmo?” Word is that this brilliant, groundbreaking, never-before-thought-of option is currently being considered. The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there … Continue reading →
One of the worst decisions the Obama administration has made (and that’s saying something) was to go after lawyers Bybee and Yoo, who did the research and made the recommendations that allowed waterboarding under certain circumscribed circumstances. It appears, however, … Continue reading →