War on Terror Update

Citing national security, a federal judge in Chicago has thrown out a lawsuit aimed at blocking AT&T from giving telephone records to the government.

The suit was brought by the ACLU on behalf of author Studs Terkel and other activists.

More here.

TAKING THE LONG VIEW ON HAMDAN

Georgetown University Law School prof David Cole takes the long view (and I mean long, as in 4,700 words) of the Supreme Court's seminal Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision in a New York Review of Books commentary.