By Jonathan Abrams, NSJ Staff Editor – On March 23rd, the Supreme Court is scheduled to hear arguments concerning the power of a federal judge to compel the Executive to admit detainees into the United States. But a two sentence order issued by the Court on Friday signaled that new developments may result in the […]
NSJ Analysis: Rep. Miller (R-MI) Proposes Statutory Detention Authority
Representative Candace Miller (R-MI) has introduced H.R. 4415, the Terrorist Detention and Prosecution Act of 2010. The bill expands the definition of unlawful enemy combatant, codified at 10 U.S.C. § 948 to include persons determined by the President to be closely associated with Al Qaeda or other terrorist groups, to have taken up arms on […]
NSJ Analysis: Nation Sources Present Conflicting Stories of U.S. Military and Blackwater Involvement in Pakistan
The Nation’s Jeremy Scahill points to the recent deaths of three United States special forces soldiers in Pakistan as further evidence of the existence of an extensive, but classified American military presence in that country. Scahill highlights a number of reasons to be suspicious of the United States Government’s claims that the soldiers were part […]
A Response To ‘Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot’
By Jeffrey Kahn – When your favorite tool is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. After the near-catastrophe on Northwest Airlines Flight 253 on Christmas Day, it is not surprising that many hammer away with the tools they know best: data-mining and watchlists. The conventional wisdom is that if we know enough soon enough, […]
A Response To ‘Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot’
By Nathan A. Sales – It didn’t take long after 9/11 for the conventional wisdom to crystallize. The devastating terrorist attacks were almost immediately, and almost universally, chalked up to the intelligence community’s failure to share information. Yet if al Qaeda’s attempt to down Northwest flight 253 is any indication, the feds still haven’t learned […]
Connecting the Dots and the Christmas Plot
By Paul Rosenzweig – “We slipped up.” That’s what Patrick F. Kennedy, the Undersecretary of State for Management, said at a Senate hearing last week about the Christmas day bomb plot and the arrest of Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. He has a gift for understatement. But the real question isn’t whether we “slipped up”—everyone knows we […]