* Testimony from Acting AAG Todd Hinnen, DOJ National Security Division, on PATRIOT Act renewal and National Security Letters (House Judiciary, Mar. 30, 2011) I don’t often circulate prepared testimony, but this is a very handy summary of where things stand with respect to certain PATRIOT Act investigative authorities and to national security letters. I… Continue reading nationalsecuritylaw Testimony from Acting AAG Todd Hinnen, DOJ National Security Division, on PATRIOT Act renewal and National Security Letters (House Judiciary, Mar. 30, 2011)
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* forthcoming scholarship “Executive Power and the Discipline of History” Julian Davis Mortenson (Michigan Law School) 78 University of Chicago Law Review 377 (2011) In a trilogy of books published after September 11, John Yoo has argued that George W. Bush’s counter-terrorism efforts were well grounded in both law and policy. As a rhetorical matter,… Continue reading nationalsecuritylaw forthcoming scholarship
nationalsecuritylaw United States v. Kassir (2d Cir. Jan. 19, 2011)
* United States v. Kassir (2d Cir. Jan. 19, 2011) (affirming conviction) An a 6-page summary order, a Second Circuit panel (Jacobs, Wesley, and Chin) have affirmed the conviction of Oussama Kassir. Kassir had been convicted by a jury on an array of material support and conspiracy counts (including 18 USC 2339A, 2339B, and 956(a))… Continue reading nationalsecuritylaw United States v. Kassir (2d Cir. Jan. 19, 2011)