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A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.
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Matt Waxman (who served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Affairs from 2004 to 2005) and I have written a short article for the Council on Foreign Relations expressing concern about t...
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The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover...
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The 31st Quadrennial Conference of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent closed on Thursday in Geneva with the adoption of a resolution inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...
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The government has, unsurprisingly, filed a brief in opposition to Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman's cert petition. Uthman, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, had asked the Supreme Court to review this d...
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As Raff explains below, there was one amendment to S. 1867's detainee section that made it through: Senator Feinstein's amendment stating that the bill should not be read as favoring or disfavoring an in...
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The Senate passed the NDAA (S. 1867) last night on a 93-7 vote. The seven senators who voted against final passage are:
Coburn
Harkin
Lee
Merkley
Paul
Sanders
Wyden
The bill now moves on to a co...
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Senator Feinstein's amendment, which would have limited applicability of the NDAA's detention provisions to terrorism suspects captured abroad, was rejected in a 45-55 vote this afternoon.
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There is a lot to talk about in regard to S. 1867, the NDAA bill currently under debate, other than section 1031 and 1032. Take section 1036. It's rather amazing this provisions hasn't generated more a...
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I always read what Conor Friedersdorf has to say over at the Atlantic. He's thoughtful and focused on the merits, and offers an important libertarian perspective on matters including the NDAA debate. I...
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You can read the edited transcript from the Senate's debate yesterday on the detention provisions here. Previous coverage is available here and here. This includes debate on the Sessions amendment starti...