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Last Wednesday the government filed its response brief in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal in the D.C. Circuit. The appellants, three Guantánamo detainees, filed their appeal on Aug. 5, c...
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The issue for tomorrow morning's argument in the D.C. Circuit: whether Guantanamo detainee Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif's appeal was filed on time.
In a redacted 2011 opinion, the district court had conc...
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It was an odd turn of events yesterday at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse. For a moment, it seemed as if a controversial Guantanamo policy might be rescinded or modified.
Friday morning saw a long-...
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published its congressionally-mandated, biannual report on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees.
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So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order. It was issued Monday.
Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...
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Big news from the Department of Defense this morning: two detainees have been transferred from the Guantanamo detention facility to the government of Algeria.
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Here is the Chief Prosecutor of the military commissions, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement, which addresses this week's hearings in the United States v.
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A few weeks ago, Daniel Klaidman noted in the Daily Beast the existence of a White House memo outlining its proposal to close Guantanamo.
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The noncontroversial dispensed with, we move to the controversial: now, the defense’s emergency motion regarding information technology matters. Maj. Jason Wright, one of KSM’s lawyers, previews it---on...
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We pick up with a quick clarifying point about vicarious liability: the idea, the military judge confirms with the Chief Prosecutor, is that the jury must find that a substantive offenses was committed, ...
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It’s 1:32 when the commission is once more called to order, and AE120 is teed up in earnest. That’s the government’s motion to make so-called “minor conforming changes” to the charge sheet, so as to mak...
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Let us now discuss, for but a fleeting moment, the ongoing representation status of CDR Walter Ruiz.