Last Thursday, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted motions to dismiss the suit of a former Guantánamo detainee in Ameur v. Gates for lack of sub...

Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...

It's a big week at the Supreme Court, but Guantanamo habeas heads will not want to miss this development: the cert denial in Obaydullah on Monday. Steve wrote about this cert petition here, and coverage ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...