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.
Blawg Related Categories: Constitutional Law • Legal Theory • Terrorism • Legal News Publication • Blawg 100
Recent Posts from Unclaimed Territory
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The NYT calls Iranian interrogation tactics "torture"
(updated below) Today is the ideal day to celebrate America's specialness, and America's paper of record inspirationally leads the ritual: Clark Hoyt, New York Times Public Editor, April 26, 2009: A LINGUISTIC shift took place in…
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Salon Radio: Charlie Savage on Obama's civil liberties record
(updated w/transcript) Back in February, The New York Times' Charlie Savage -- who won the Pulitzer Prize for exposing Bush's use of signing statements to break the law -- wrote an article reporting that, after a…
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The still-growing NPR "torture" controversy
(updated below - Update II - Update III) There are several noteworthy developments since I wrote on Tuesday about the refusal of NPR's Ombdusman, Alica Shepard, to be interviewed by me about NPR's ban on using…
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The suppressed fact: Deaths by U.S. torture
(updated below) After numerous delays sought by the Obama administration, it is expected that a 2004 CIA Inspector General's Report -- aggressively questioning both the efficacy and legality of Bush's interrogation tactics -- will be released tomorrow.…
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Creepy, revealing quote from White House staffer
Jane Hamsher details the extremely aggressive tactics the White House and House leadership used to coerce liberal environmentalist members to vote for the cap-and-trade bill despite their belief that it helped polluters more than it did anything…
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NPR Ombudsman refuses interview regarding "torture"
NPR's Ombudsman, Alicia Shepard, wrote a column last week justifying NPR's policy of using euphemisms such as "enhanced interrogation tactics" -- while barring the use of the word "torture" -- to describe the interrogation tactics…
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The Supreme Court's Ricci decision
(updated below) In the now famous "white firefighter" affirmative action case -- Ricci v. DeStefano -- the Supreme Court today, in a 5-4 ruling (.pdf), reversed the decision of a unanimous Second Circuit Court of Appeals…
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Establishment view of Obama's civil liberties record
One of the most cherished weapons for dismissing political arguments without having to engage them is to claim they come from "the Far Left" or are confined to "liberal ideologues." For years, that was what was…
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Obama contemplates Executive Order for detention without charges
(updated below - Update II) When Obama first unveiled his "preventive detention" policy, many defenders praised him (and claimed he was different than Bush) because of his vow that -- as he put it --…
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Neocon enemies, using diplomacy, reach deal for Shalit's release
[updated below - Update II - Update III (Goldfarb's reply)] Last night, I noted the sudden and obviously hypocritical concern about detainee abuse emerging from The Weekly Standard's Michael Goldfarb now that the transfer of Israeli soldier Gilad…