Seth Barrett Tillman [*] [download pdf] [Eds. Note: In light of the interest in our presidential transitions colloquy and the continuing debate over recess appointments, we would like to highlight a debate between Seth Barrett Tillman and Brian C. Kalt that occurred in the first volume of the Colloq...

Brian C. Kalt [*] [download pdf] [Eds. Note: In light of the interest in our presidential transitions colloquy and the continuing debate over recess appointments, we would like to highlight a debate between Seth Barrett Tillman and Brian C. Kalt that occurred in the first volume of the Colloquy.] Th...

Cross-posted from Congress Matters. Ha ha! Where ya been, George? Seriously, this is the worst kind of day late, dollar short mewling I've ever seen! A new Capitol Visitor Center recently opened, just in time for the transformation of the Capitol building into a tomb for the antiquated idea that the...

Mickey Kaus quips, “We need a Czar Czar, to crack the whip on all the czars. … P.S.: Also a federal czar policy. Right now, czar decisions are made on an ad hoc, case-by-case basis, with no attempt at czar harmonization.” I have to agree that we’ve gone czar crazy.  WeR...

by Frank Kendall, a consultant for Human Rights First who is blogging from Guantanamo Bay. See yesterday’s post here. Guantánamo Bay, July 14, 2008. Today at Guantánamo, Salim Hamdan’s tortuous legal journey continued. Supposedly Mr. Hamdan is one week from starting his tri...

By Barry Siegel, Director of the Literary Journalism Program, UC Irvine; Pulitzer-Prize winning former national correspondent, Los Angeles Times A few weeks ago, at the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, I moderated a panel that carried the title “Checks and Balances.” The festival org...

by Deborah Colson, Senior Associate in the Law and Security Program at Human Rights First Guantánamo Bay , April 28, 2008: Prosecutors and criminal defendants rarely see eye to eye. But defendant Salim Ahmed Hamdan and former chief prosecutor Morris Davis agree on one thing: Th...

Guantánamo Bay, April 8, 2008: My name is Frank Kendall, and I am an uncompensated consultant to Human Rights First. I have been working with HRF either as a volunteer or consultant on detainee treatment issues for about four years now. When HRF asked me if I could go to Guantánamo as ...

"There can be little doubt now that the government has used drugs on terrorist suspects that are designed to weaken their resistance to interrogation," according to Congressional Quarterly's National Security Editor Jeff Stein, although he notes "we may never know the truth." CQ ...

by Kevin Lanigan, Director of Law and Security Program, Human Rights First [Editor's Note: this blog entry was written at Guantanamo Bay] Two weeks ago, Attorney General Michael Mukasey visited Guantánamo for about six hours. Among other things, he met with prosecution officials down here, bu...