[The Washington Post]
The Obama administration has dropped the term "enemy combatant" to describe those held at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and increased the legal threshold needed to detain them.

[ars technica]
The privilege against self-incrimination, a federal court has ruled, does not bar prosecutors from forcing a defendant to decrypt his laptop hard drive—reversing a 2007 decision that found the demand to enter a password equivalent to compelled testimony.

[The Huffington Post]
The Obama administration has thrown open the curtain on years of Bush-era secrets, revealing anti-terror memos that claimed exceptional search-and-seizure powers and divulging that the CIA destroyed nearly 100 videotapes of interrogations and other treatment of terror suspects.