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15 Jan 2015, 6:09 am
Here’s Charlie Savage, of the New York Times: WASHINGTON — The United States transferred five more detainees — all of them Yemenis — from the military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, on Wednesday, the Defense Department announced. [read post]
12 Jan 2015, 6:42 am
The report was only partially declassified for the Times, but the Charlie Savage and his team were able to decipher the following: In 2008, according to the report, the F.B.I. assumed the power to review email accounts the N.S.A. wanted to collect through the “Prism” system, which collects emails of foreigners from providers like Yahoo and Google. [read post]
16 Dec 2014, 5:00 pm
Ben took part in the conversation on the second panel, which included Charlie Savage, John Napier Tye, Marcy Wheeler, Laura Donohue, and Alex Joel. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 3:44 pm
As reported by Charlie Savage of the New York Times, the documents shed new light on the legal debate and disagreements over the United States government’s authority to conduct warrantless wiretapping. [read post]
15 Dec 2014, 11:52 am
The New York Times’s Charlie Savage reports on newly released documents that shed light on the legal interpretations and disagreements of the judges who were asked to approve the Bush administration’s warrantless wiretapping program. [read post]
6 Dec 2014, 5:59 am
Following up on Charlie Savage’s scoop in the New York Times that the Section 215 sunset provision is not quite as a firm as people had thought, Ben remarked on the oddity of the Patriot Act’s sunset provisions and what it might mean for the USA Freedom Act debate. [read post]
25 Nov 2014, 10:19 am
Benjamin Wittes offered a few comments on Charlie Savage’s scoop regarding a little legal loophole in the Patriot Act sunset provisions, and what that might mean for NSA reform. [read post]
24 Nov 2014, 7:00 am
Last week, the New York Times‘s Charlie Savage had what seems to me a pretty big, if under-discussed, scoop—or perhaps we should say that he channelled to the public a pretty big scoop by former Senate Intelligence Committee chief counsel Michael Davidson. [read post]
19 Nov 2014, 7:42 pm
Phone Data Collection Could Go On, Even if a Law Expires": Charlie Savage will have this article in Thursday's edition of The New York Times. [read post]
15 Nov 2014, 6:55 am
He also shared Charlie Savage’s scoop in the Times concerning the Obama administration’s decision this week to recognize that the Convention on Torture restricts how the US can treat prisoners in certain places abroad. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 11:10 am
As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S. [read post]
12 Nov 2014, 6:34 am
The New York Times’ Charlie Savage has the scoop: WASHINGTON — A treaty ban on cruel treatment will restrict how the United States may treat prisoners in certain places abroad, the Obama administration is expected to tell the United Nations on Wednesday, according to officials. [read post]
4 Nov 2014, 8:57 pm
"Appeals Court Is Urged to Strike Down Program for Collecting Phone Records": Charlie Savage will have this article in Wednesday's edition of The New York Times. [read post]
27 Oct 2014, 4:45 am
In his piece on Nobel Peace Prize Laureates pressuring the President to disclose information about torture, Charlie Savage explains why some officials in the administration oppose the broad extraterritorial expansion of Article 16 of the CAT: The officials opposed to accepting the cruelty provision as applying abroad insist they do not want to resume abusive interrogations, which are barred by the 2005 statute anyway, but worry that accepting the treaty provision as applying abroad… [read post]
26 Oct 2014, 7:37 am
Belatedly, I want to join the discussion about the extraterritorial application of the Convention Against Torture (CAT), about which Jack commented on Friday, drawing on a Charlie Savage column earlier in the week. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 10:58 am
Charlie Savage at the New York Times has reviewed and listed the changes. [read post]
24 Oct 2014, 7:22 am
” Third, Charlie Savage, who wrote the story that got this controversy going, tweeted in response to Luban’s post: “Re CAT: doubt operational impacts=interrogations bc DTA/EO. [read post]
18 Oct 2014, 8:42 pm
"Obama Could Reaffirm a Bush-Era Reading of a Treaty on Torture": Charlie Savage will have this article in Sunday's edition of The New York Times. [read post]
7 Oct 2014, 11:56 am
” In the New York Times, Charlie Savage reports that counsel for Guantanamo Bay detainee Ahmed Mujstafa Diyab told the court yesterday that the military’s procedures for force-feeding prisoners cause “additional and gratuitous suffering. [read post]
4 Oct 2014, 7:34 pm
"Judge Orders Disclosure of Guantanamo Videos": Charlie Savage has this article in today's edition of The New York Times. [read post]
