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On October 12th, Judge Walton denied habeas relief to GTMO detainee Abdul Qader Ahmed Hussein (ISN 690), and the 22-page unclassified opinion is now available here.
I don't think the opinion breaks any ...
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The Associated Press and Dina Temple-Raston of National Public Radio have the story of Tarek Mehanna's trial, which began today, and which Bobby discussed here.
Omar Khadr, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, ...
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One of the interesting things about 18 USC 2339B (the 1996 material support law) and
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Reuters has an interesting story about the NSA helping U.S. banks defend against foreign cyber attacks by providing them with "technical expertise." According to the article, the NSA has already been hel...
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An important case gets underway tomorrow in Boston: the civilian criminal prosecution of Tarek Mehanna, charged with an array of offenses stemming from allegations that he traveled to Yemen in 2004 in an...
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For those who care about this site's traffic data (people ask me about it sometimes): According to Google Analytics, yesterday was the highest-traffic day in the history of Lawfare--with nearly 10,400 pe...
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Happy 10th birthday to the Patriot Act! Carrie Johnson at NPR celebrates the big day with a look at the the still-controversial legislation and an interview with Nicholas Merrill, who challenged a gag or...
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Tomorrow, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit will hear oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, in which Jose Padilla and his mother, Estella Lebron, appeal a district court's dismissal of a B...
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Scott Horton has a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that argues the fall of Gaddafi should be seen “through the lens of the law” as a “Pyrrhic” victory. From the domestic law perspective, Horton maint...
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The British government released a green paper on justice and security a few days ago -- entitled, appropriately enough, the "Justice and Security Green Paper." The full text is available here. For a bri...
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I'm afraid I owe Lawfare readers an apology. Because of a calendar foul-up, I missed yesterday's D.C. Circuit argument in Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case--nor did I write an oral argument prev...
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The AP and the AFP have the story of Abd al-Nashiri, the main suspect in the USS Cole bombing, whose trial Bobby discusses here.
The AP
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Here is the latest salvo in the debate relating to the NDAA provisions relating to detainees: Last week Chairman McKeon sent this 7-page letter to the White House responding to the administration's earli...
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Yesterday I asked whether there are any historical examples in which (i) a military commission prosecution occurred during an armed conflict rather than afterwards, (ii) the defendant was acquitted, and ...
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May God bless their little souls. The poor dears really are trying. The New York Times editorial page has now corrected its correction.
This is getting meta, and this post will be incomprehensible to th...
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The defense in United States v.
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The latest public development in the long-running fight over the detention provisions in the National Defense Authorization Act occurred last Friday when a group of 13 Senate Democrats (all the Democrats...
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Secretary of State Hilary Clinton staunchly defended the Iraq withdrawal on several Sunday talk shows; her remarks on ABC's The Week are available here, beginning at minute 6:54. However, President Obam...
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An interesting story in the Post this weekend draws attention to the fact that about 7,000 detainees currently are held without criminal charge in various locations throughout Libya, and with varying deg...
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Over at the Volokh Conspiracy, Kenneth Anderson writes of my post yesterday, "What should most concern the Times are the couple of emails I’ve received from several eminent professors, smart and intellec...