Unclaimed Territory

Glenn Greenwald launched Unclaimed Territory in 2005 as a political and legal blog. He is credited with breaking numerous legal affairs stories on his blog, and in 2006, he won the Koufax Award for best new blog. Unclaimed Territory now resides at Salon.com.

Author: Glenn Greenwald has done what many bloggers and lawyers dream about—he made the leap from full-time law practice to full-time blogging. He is a former constitutional lawyer in New York City who practiced at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz and then at Greenwald Christoph. In 2006, he published How Would a Patriot Act? Defending American Values from a President Run Amok and in 2007 came out with A Tragic Legacy: How a Good v. Evil Mentality Destroyed the Bush Presidency.

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Recent Posts from Unclaimed Territory

A media orgy of rumors, speculation and falsehoods
Last night, right-wing blogger (and law professor) Glenn Reynolds promoted this media analysis from right-wing blogger (and Los Angeles Assistant District Attorney) Patterico regarding coverage of the Fort Hood shootings. Patterico wrote: "Whenever there is breaking news, it’s good…
Pulsating diversity of views on the Post Op-Ed page
"I know many readers, particularly liberals, feel we have too many conservative voices on the page. On the other hand, I hear from a lot of conservative readers who think we have too many people…
Criminal convictions of 22 CIA agents in Italy
(updated below - Update II) The criminal conviction of 22 CIA agents (and 2 Italian intelligence officers) by an Italian court yesterday -- for the 2003 kidnapping of an Islamic cleric, Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, off the street in…
Stephanopoulos and Ledeen: together in the most accountability-free profession
(updated below - Update II - Update III) Michael Ledeen of National Review & American Enterprise Institute, writing in "Pajamas Media," January 4, 2007: BREAKING NEWS --Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme Leader, is dead. Associated Press, January…
Extreme unintended irony from a WH official
(updated below) From Ben Smith's Politico article on the surprisingly narrow victory by Michael Bloomberg in the New York mayoral race: Bloomberg’s meager five-point win left Democrats pondering what might have been if New York’s…
A court decision that reflects what type of country the U.S. is
It's not often that an appellate court decision reflects so vividly what a country has become, but such is the case with yesterday's ruling by the Second Circuit Court of Appeals in Arar v. Ashcroft (.pdf).…
Ongoing U.S. efforts to protect and coddle Israel
(updated below - Update II) The latest Haaretz column by the outstanding and courageous Israeli columnist, Gideon Levy, is entitled "America, Stop Sucking Up to Israel," and it highlights one of the most bizarre political facts: criticism…
Obama's latest use of "secrecy" to shield presidential lawbreaking
The Obama administration has, yet again, asserted the broadest and most radical version of the "state secrets" privilege -- which previously caused so much controversy and turmoil among loyal Democrats (when used by Bush/Cheney) -- to…
"What journalists are supposed to do"
(updated below - Update II) David Brooks today says he wanted to write a column about Obama's pending decision over Afghanistan, and in order to write this column, this is what he tells us he…
Joe Lieberman, Evan Bayh and Afghanistan
Ongoing travel will make writing difficult today, so I'll post several television segments I did this morning and last night. First is a debate over Afghanistan and U.S. foreign policy with former Bush official and standard neocon…