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As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...
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The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency. The book is shaping up to be a must-read f...
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I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...
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U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...
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You'll recall that the three-judge panel in Hamdan v.
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The ACLU has filed its reply brief in the D.C. Circuit in its FOIA case against the government, which seeks information about CIA use of drones for targeted killing. I have discussed this case briefly ...
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This morning, National Public Radio ran this story, which Wells linked to earlier, noting that the concern that the United States was recreating Guantanamo at Bagram:
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This morning's Supreme Court orders list makes no mention of the unresolved petitions in several Guantanamo-related cases. That means a re-listing for the justices' conference this Thursday.
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According to the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, only three of the 9/11 defendants weighed in on the question, put to the prosecution by Judge James Pohl, of why the men should not be tried separately.
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Waaaay back in January, Ben noted that Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani had filed his opening brief in his appeal to the Second Circuit. Ghailani is appealing his conspiracy conviction and life sentence for his ro...
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So reports Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald: Judge Pohl has set another hearing in United States v.
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Over at SCOTUSblog, Lyle Deniston yesterday noted that, according to the Supreme Court's electronic docket, the Court's Thursday conference will address seven petitions for review in detainee-related cas...