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Al Kandari En Banc Petition Denied

Benjamin Wittes
Monday, January 30, 2012, 4:40 PM
Well, that didn't take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A D.C.

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Well, that didn't take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A D.C. Circuit panel decided Al Kandari's case in December, after cancelling oral arguments.

Benjamin Wittes is editor in chief of Lawfare and a Senior Fellow in Governance Studies at the Brookings Institution. He is the author of several books.

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