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Following up on my last post regarding section 1031 of the NDAA FY 12 and the future of detention authority, I want to draw attention to what strikes me as a huge and looming issue--but one that is getti...
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On his new blog, The Loyal Opposition, New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal has this post arguing that "One particularly compelling reason [not to use military commissions] is that tribu...
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In a post on the American Constitution Society's blog, Steve Vladeck takes aim at section 1031 of the Senate version of the NDAA FY '12, which concerns detention authority under the 9/18/01 AUMF. If you'...
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My old friend Alejandro Manevich, now an attorney in Toronto, writes in with the following on today's development in the extradition case of Abdullah Khadr:
I thought your readers may be interested in th...
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According to Noah Rosenberg of the New York Times, Viktor Bout, a high-profile Russian terrorist who became known as the "Merchant of Death," was found guilty in NY federal district court of a raft of cr...
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A while back I posted on the fact that the State Department has not formally designated the Haqqani Network as a whole to be a foreign terrorist organization, which among other things precludes applicati...
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Nine lawyers representing high-value Guantanamo Bay detainees set to be tried in military commissions are objecting to a new policy monitoring all correspondence between them and their clients on the gro...
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From the invaluable Steven Aftergood over at Secrecy News:
For the first time in more than a decade, the total U.S.
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Last week I noted that al-Nashiri has moved for an order compelling the government to state whether it would remand him to military detention for the duration of hostilities in the event of an acquittal....
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The Eleventh Circuit has affirmed the convictions of several members of the group referred to in the media variously as the “Miami 7,” the “Liberty City 7,” or the “Seas of David.” The men were convicte...
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Dramatic news out of Atlanta yesterday, as federal prosecutors announced the arrest of members of a "fringe militia group" charged with conspiring to carry out an array of terrorist attacks on government...
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The full Seventh Circuit has granted the government’s motion to rehear en banc Vance v. Rumsfeld, a suit by two U.S. citizens alleging that they were detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq.
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has released Judge Royce Lamberth's opinion on remand in Warafi. Judge Lamberth first denied Makhtar Al-Warafi’s habeas petition some time back, but t...
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Be careful what you tweet, all you political dissidents. The Department of Homeland Security has begun "developing guidelines for culling intelligence from social media networks" after the events of the...
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From our friends at George Washington:
The co-chairs of the 2012 George Washington University Law School National Security Law Moot Court Competition would like to encourage law students from around the...
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. . . how excited I am about this: a new blog by New York Times Editorial Page Editor Andrew Rosenthal. I confess, the following line from his introductory post disappoints me a little:
Nor will I blog a...
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Judge Walton has released his unclassified opinion in Karim Bostan (ISN 975) v. Obama, denying Bostan's habeas petition (the decisions appears to have issued in classified form on October 12th). The gove...
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A whole unruly mess of weekend news to catch up on today.
A deadly attack in Kabul, pulled off by the Haqqani network, killed at least 12 Americans this weekend, according to Joshua Partlow and Greg Jaf...
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Five years ago today, in remarks at the London School of Economics, I provided a comprehensive public statement of the U.S. Government’s views of the international legal framework applicable to the U.S. ...
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Oral arguments in Lebron v. Rumsfeld took place before the Fourth Circuit on Wednesday.
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