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On Friday, Judge Gladys Kessler of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia denied detainee Abu Wa'el Dhiab's bid for a preliminary injunction against certain Guantanamo force-feedin...
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The D.C. Circuit has just issued a per curiam order denying the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama.
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On Friday, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) released an update on the implementation of Presidential Policy Directive/PPD-28, regarding signals intelligence activities.
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Last week I explained that a likely major reason for the Obama administration’s switch from an Article II rationale for air strikes against the Islamic State to an AUMF rationale (2001 and 2002) was comp...
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Today the government filed a short response to the detainees' petition for an en banc rehearing in Hatim v. Obama, the Guantanamo counsel-access case.
Recall that last month the D.C. Circuit ordered the...
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I have just read George Packer's profile of Laura Poitras in the New Yorker, which centers around her new, long-awaited film about Edward Snowden. The film, due for release October 24 and called Citizenf...
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Last Friday plaintiffs (appellees/cross-appellants) in Klayman v. Obama filed their reply to the government's response and reply brief. The plaintiffs' new 38-page filing largely reiterates arguments fro...
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Petitioner Ali al-Bahlul filed his reply brief yesterday in Bahlul v. United States, the D.C.
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It's not just the same-sex marriage cases. The Supreme Court today also denied petitions for certiorari in a pair of cases we've been following. The first petition was from Tarek Mehanna, a Massachusetts...
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An important development today in Dhiab v. Obama: over the government's objections, D.C. District Court Judge Gladys Kessler has ordered the unsealing of secret videos that show Guantanamo Bay prisoner A...
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A few weeks back, in response to a FOIA request, the Central Intelligence Agency made public a trove of documents from Studies in Intelligence, the agency's in-house intelligence publication. The FOIA-re...
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On Friday the government filed its response and reply brief in Klayman v.