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I have only read the D.C. Circuit's Khan opinion very quickly and may have further thoughts when I dive in a little deeper.
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The D.C. Circuit has affirmed district court Judge John Bates's denial of Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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Raffaela's compilation of reviews of Dick Cheney's book links to one which I think warrants a brief reply.
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Judging from his new book, In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney probably won't be participating in the Lawfare 10th Anniversary Project, which is devoted to acknowledging error and second though...
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My contribution to our 9/11 10th Anniversary Project concerns the role of the judiciary in relation to detention. Well do I recall my reaction to the first wave of Guantanamo litigation back in the 2002...
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Greg Miller and Julie Tate have a remarkable story in the Washington Post this morning (and if my local paper the Austin American-Statesman is any indicator, also on the front page of a whole lot of othe...
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Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.
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Mark Mazzetti had a piece yesterday in the Times covering the important news that CIA once again has located and killed al Qaeda's top officer for operational planning (Atiyah abd al-Rahman, who took ove...
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The New York Time's Charlie Savage has obtained a copy of former Vice President Cheney's forthcoming memoir. Not a lot in his story about the book that will surprise on matters of interest to readers of ...
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Another interesting legal issue touched upon in Joby Warrick's The Triple Agent concerns the difficulty of defining the set of groups or networks against which force lawfully may be used. This issue has...
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In November 2009, the ACLU brought a suit on behalf of an American citizen--Amir Meshal--against two FBI agents and two unnamed officials, alleging the following: that he went to Somalia in 2006, that he...
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In prior posts such as this one, I've noted that the United States eventually will transfer control over the Detention Center in Parwan to Afghan authorities. The most recent goal for that transfer was ...