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Earlier this week the Solicitor General filed its brief in Samantar v.
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I have only had a chance to look briefly at the Guantanamo-related provisions of the House-Senate compromise NDAA, but the text looks to me like a big win for the Obama administration---and for common se...
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In case you're having trouble sleeping tonight, here is the 1,105-page full text of the compromise NDAA and the mere 532-page Joint Explanatory Statement on the bill. I'll have comments as soon as I go t...
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Monday evening, Senate and House armed services committee leaders announced that a compromise has been largely reached with regard to the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act. Among those matters incl...
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Jose Aleman, Editor-in-Chief of the Stanford Journal of International Law, writes in with this seemingly quite Lawfare-relevant announcement:
As the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 Commission Report approa...
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David Remes wrote in to rebut my recent post, which stated that some forced repatriations are a “virtually inevitable part of any plausible plan” toward closing Guantanamo. I’ve pasted Remes’ entire not...
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Lawfare readers have followed and discussed the Snowden revelations with a mixture of dread and excitement. Our focus, understandably, is on the impact of the leaks on the intelligence community and on U...
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As the Obama administration re-energizes efforts to winnow the Guantanamo population through transfers to other countries, it will be squeezed from many sides -- including from those who see the transfer...
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On Monday morning, a significant Guantanamo case, Hatim v. Obama et al., will be argued before D.C. Circuit Judges Merrick Garland, Karen L. Henderson, and Thomas B. Griffith.
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The transfer of two Algerian detainees at Guantanamo Bay was announced this morning by the Department of Defense:
The Department of Defense announced on Dec. 5 the transfer of Djamel Saiid Ali Ameziane a...
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As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and...
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This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror...