Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law writes in with the following response to David Cole's recent article on the Tarek Mehanna case: While David Cole’s passionate defense of the Fir...

Ken and Ben have recently commented on the national security speeches of Obama Administration officials, including most recently the remarks of CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston.  As a former Bush Admi...

Georgetown law professor David Cole has this disturbing article in the New York Review of Books Blog on the Tarek Mehanna case. I have not followed this case carefully in the district court, but this art...

Was it clearly established in 2006-07 that GTMO detainees were entitled to the protections of the Fifth Amendment?  A district judge in Washington State thinks so, adding that it was clearly established ...

The government has filed its response to Abdulrahman Abdou Abou Al Ghaith Suleiman's  petition for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit.

A judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Washington in Seattle has dismissed a Bivens action by a former Guantanamo detainee against former Defense Secretary Bob Gates. Adel Hassan Hamad is...

All discovery, all the time.  We move now to AE53, the defense’s motion for the discovery of information about the resources expended by the government in its investigation.   Kammen is up first, and he ...

You probably have been saying to yourself, all morning and afternoon, “when will we ever hear argument on motion AE40, the defense’s request to compel funding for a Yemeni defense investigator?”  Your wa...

Lunch ends, and we return to argue over AE 038 - or, as better known to docket-watchers, the defense’s motion to compel the timely translation of discovery into Arabic. Reyes begins by informing the cour...