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During his press conference today (transcript here), President Obama announced a quartet of reform initiatives meant to enhance the credibility and legitimacy of NSA activities and the FISA system, both ...
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Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.
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Some interesting terrorism-prosecution developments over the past few days that are worth noting.
United States v. Mohammed (S.D. Fla.) First, a pair of men (one leaving in Kenya, and the other--who hap...
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The reply was filed yesterday by counsel for Guantanamo detainee. En banc briefing in the appeal of his military commission conviction is now seemingly complete.
In the reply's "Summary of Argument" se...
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Monday's ruling in United States v.
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I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event:
The Penta...
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"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.
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Three Guantanamo detainees filed their opening brief yesterday in Aamer v. Obama. Shaker Aamer, Nabil Hadjarab and Ahmed Belbacha are appealing the D.C. District Court’s denial of their motions for a pre...
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This story from Ellen Nakashima and Anne Gearan, in the Washington Post, reports that the threat leading to the closure of so many embassies and consulates involves a direct order from Ayman al-Zawahiri ...
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Two developments in Hatim et al. v. Obama et al., the D.C. Circuit case regarding JTF-GTMO's detainee access procedures for defense counsel: one, the filing of additional briefing regarding the stay of a...
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An article in the Washington Post today draws attention, once more (see here, for example), to the lingering question of what will become of the lingering population of detainees (all non-Afghans) remain...
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