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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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As promised, Attorney General Holder delivered an address on law and national security today at Northwestern Law. The speech covered an array of topics, including a defense of the legitimacy of military...
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Writing over at Forbes, Pepperdine law professor Gregory McNeal has this thoughtful piece about the President's policy directive. It contains some interesting ruminations on the breadth of some of the wa...
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Over at The Atlantic, Andrew Cohen offers this analysis of President Obama's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA.
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While the experience is fresh, I thought I'd share some reflections on this morning's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Due Process Guarantee Act.
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Raffaela earlier posted the President's implementation procedures for Section 1022 of the NDAA--that is, the not-so-mandatory military detention provision. I have only had a chance to read it over quickl...
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This just in from the Department of Justice:
Today at 6:30 pm, the White House issued the following Fact Sheet and a Presidential Policy Directive that sets forth procedures implementing Section 1022 of ...
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I've blogged before about S.
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NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options. It's an important topic. Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...
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Brian Jenkins of RAND sharply criticizes the NDAA's detention provisions in this short piece at Foreign Affairs.
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The US government is considering transferring a group of five Taliban detainees from GTMO to Qatar (to be held there by Qatari authorities) in furtherance of peace negotiations in relation to Afghanistan...
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The government has filed its opposition to cert in the case of Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. Al Madhwani's cert petition seeks review of this DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.