The beginnings of a Maryland autumn can be discerned outside Fort Meade’s Smallwood Hall.  Inside, the by-now familiar CCTV screen comes to life and displays an empty judicial bench, the Joint Task Force...

Tuesday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Al Janko v. Gates, an appeal of a damages action brought by a former Guantanamo detainee against various government of...

Here’s a read-out from today’s oral argument in Aamer v.

Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., D.C. Circuit Judges David S. Tatel and Thomas B. Griffith, and Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams will hear oral arguments in Aamer v.

Over at Security States,  I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...

An intriguing development in a Guantanamo-related case ongoing during the government shutdown: detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam, who challenges Guantanamo transfer restrictions as incompatible with the Constitu...

Just as the great post-2008 wave of GTMO habeas litigation winds down, it appears to be time, at last, to revive the Periodic Review Board system at GTMO. DOD breaks the news here (text reprinted below ...

If a capture comes, can calls to send the terrorist to Guantanamo be far behind? Apparently not. ABC News is reporting that GOP Senators Lindsey Graham, Kelly Ayotte, and Saxby Chambliss are calling fo...

Abu Anas Al-Liby's detention aboard the U.S.S. San Antonio raises a host of issues regarding his eventual handover to the criminal justice system.  A biggie is the extent to which criminal procedural rul...

The Pentagon has just announced the new DoD special envoy for Guantanamo closure: Paul Lewis. Secretary Hagel Announces Appointment to Key Defense Post Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel today announced th...