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We are very pleased to announce Lawfare's first e-book, Lawfare on the National Defense Authorization Acts, which is now available in Kindle format on Amazon for $4.99.
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Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al.
It opens:
Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...
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A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3...
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The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...
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A three-judge panel (Judges Henderson, Griffith and Edwards) of the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the District Court's decision to deny Guantanamo detainee Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain's petition for a writ ...
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The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration's Guantanamo task force.
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Last Friday the government filed this brief in CA2 in the NYT’s and ACLU’s appeal in the case involving FOIA requests on targeted killing.
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Wells already flagged yesterday's news re: General Martins' apparent skepticism about the availability of conspiracy and military commission charges in future military commission cases (at least those br...
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We are back at Fort Meade, ready to cover today's almost live motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. The festivities will begin at 0900. Read our coverage of yesterday's hearings here.
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Five years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, holding that the Constitution's Suspension Clause "has full effect" at Guantánamo Bay, and that the review sche...
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On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.
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So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.