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Two new amicus briefs have been filed in Bahlul v. United States in the D.C. Circuit Court recently. The first is a brief on behalf of international law professors (including our own Steve Vladeck). Its ...
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Raffaela linked to this the other day, but I only now just got around to reading it. Lyle Denniston at SCOTUSblog has an interesting piece on the various cert petitions in Guantanamo cases now pending be...
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No commentary necessary:
Could The Use Of Flying Death Robots Be Hurting America's Reputation Worldwide?
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Some court documents came in over the weekend: Salim Ahmed Hamdan has filed his reply brief in his appeal in the D.C. Circuit Court. You can read it in full here. The summary of the argument is excerpted...
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The more I think about Attorney General Holder's defense of targeted killings in his speech @ Northwestern last Monday--and the various reactions thereto--the more confused I become. To be sure, this con...
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Last month, Charlie Savage of the New York Times ran this story about an Afghan detainee at Guantanamo Bay by the name of Obaydullah--whose lawyers have made up this handy fact sheet.
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Those who liked Lawfare graffiti (here and here) or my license plate (here and here) might find amusing this picture, taken on my street:
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Note this passage in the coverage by the Times:
The United States will retain custody of non-Afghan prisoners, about 50 mostly Al Qaeda militants from Pakistan, Arab countries and Central Asia, the Amer...
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Does the announcement of a deal between Afghanistan and the United States regarding transfer of the DFIP (Detention Facility in Parwan) to Afghan control (see Ben's post below) herald a new Afghan positi...
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The New York Times is reporting:
The United States has agreed to hand over detainees to Afghan government control on a far more accelerated schedule than planned, a senior American official said on Frida...
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Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld became a kind of cause celebre a few years back when he quit as a prosecutor in the military commission system over ethical concerns about the process, gave a declaration on ...
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In the ongoing debate over the use of lethal force against persons located outside Afghanistan, the suggestion is often made (both by supporters and critics of US government policies) that Afghanistan is...