Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...

As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...

I have only had a chance to skim this lengthy opinion by U.S. District Judge James Gwin allowing a suit against Don Rumsfeld and others to proceed  on some counts. But it appears to allege quite remarkab...

Over at the Long War Journal, Thomas Joscelyn--with whom Bobby and I have lately been sparring on Guantanamo transfers--has an interesting piece on the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Al Alwi.

Josh Gerstein at the Politico is reporting: The Obama administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to seek dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by Muslims who claim that the FBI conducted swe...

Yesterday's government win before Judge Kennedy and the D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in Al Alwi require an update to the habeas numbers, which are now as follows: Uighur cases in which detention was dee...

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). There is no unclassified opinion yet. We will post it as soon as it b...

The indictment in United States v. Abdo, alleging a plot to bomb a restaurant in the Killeen area frequented by soldiers from Fort Hood, is available here.

I came away from today's HASC hearing much more optimistic about the future course of our detention/prosecution policy than I had been coming in, as there were signs of what I hope will become consensus ...

On Tuesday morning, the House Armed Services Committee is holding a hearing titled "Ten Years After the 2001 AUMF: Current Status of Legal Authorities, Detention, and Prosecution in the War on Terror."  ...

I have now had a chance to read Gul, the other D.C. Circuit case that came down on Friday. Gul establishes a proposition that, in my opinion at least, should be pretty obvious: that Guantanamo habeas jur...

I normally have a pretty good read on the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. Not this time. Al Alwi, one of the decisions which Wells posted yesterday, took me rather by surprise. To be true to what I wrote ...