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In the flurry of al-Awlaki coverage today, there are two points that I think are particularly worthy of attention.
First, does this show that the U.S.
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Over at Salon.com, He Who Must Not Be Named on This Blog is upset by the fact that what he terms the "the due process-free assassination of U.S. citizens is now reality."
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Here's the New York Times coverage, the Washington Post story, and the coverage on CBS News.
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On Tuesday, lawyers for Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Alghaith Suleiman filed this letter with the Clerk of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. The letter replies to an ear...
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The government has moved the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc the Vance case, which last month allowed a suit to proceed against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by U.S. citizen...
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I have written previously about the pros and cons of the military commission option for Ali Mussa Daqduq, a member of Hezbollah whom we have been holding in military custody in Iraq for some period based...
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An update on the Suleiman case: on Friday, the government filed this letter, which sought to clarify the government's views of three issues that were raised at oral argument on September 16.
First and m...
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Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, has filed a cert petition, asking the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit's March decision in his case. The cert petition presents...
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It comes in the case of Abdah and is available here, posing the following question:
Whether, in a habeas corpus action, a Guantánamo detainee has a right to challenge his transfer to a
foreign country on...
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Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit announced decisions in Al Shimari v. CACI International and Al-Quraishi v. L-3 Services, Inc. Both cases involved tort suits brought by Iraqi civilians against U.S. military...
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Admiral Mullen, who will soon step down as CJCS, offered the following blunt language in his prepared testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee this morning:
Extremist organizations serving a...
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I promised last week to give some thoughts on Judge Henry Kennedy's recent opinion in Hentif as soon as I had a chance to read it. I was busy running some events over the past few days and only just got ...