Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo.  As I’ve argue...

David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”: The oped is quite disappointing. In br...

I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.

The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill...

August 12 is the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions.  As a candidate, Senator Obama was highly critical of the Bush Administration’s non-application of the Geneva Conventions to de...

Last Tuesday, Judge Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a FOIA suit seeking access to NSC records about the drone program.

Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.

Although the majority of this afternoon's press conference focused on the NSA's surveillance programs (transcript available in my post below), President Obama did speak to a few other important national ...

Monday's ruling in United States v.

I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event: The Penta...

"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.