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The President's Speech: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The President's speech was a dog's breakfast: some good parts, some bad parts, and some ugly parts. The Good. The most significant part of the speech was the President's description of clearer standar... -
The President's Speech: A Quick and Dirty Reaction--Part 2 (Guantanamo)
President Obama made two important announcements about aspects of Guantanamo and its detainees in his speech today. These are worth flagging before I pivot and harp on the big problem with the President'... -
The President's Speech: What About GTMO Detainees Who Cannot be Tried, but also Cannot be Released?
In his speech today, President Obama explicitly raised this perennial, maddeningly difficult issue. -
The <em>Manning</em> Public Access Litigation Moves to District Court
Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial. -
Closing Guantanamo: A View from Four Years Ago
In his speech this afternoon, the President is expected to announce a renewed effort to close Guantanamo. This will require hard work, both with Congress and with other countries. When the President ... -
New Detainee Filings on GTMO Counsel Access Issues
Today, counsel for Saeed Mohammed Hatim filed an "Emergency Motion Concerning Access to Counsel," both in the Yemeni detainee's recently reactivated habeas action, and in In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee C... -
Our Testimony on Military Detention for Domestic Captures: Congress Should Foreclose This Defunct Option
Today we will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and will argue that Congress should put to rest the question of military detention for domestic captures. More specifically, we will argue that... -
What the President Could Say in His Speech
On Thursday, President Obama will be giving a major address on national security and counterterrorism, styled as a companion to the 2009 National Archives address. That 2009 speech adopted a pragmatic a... -
Heritage Event on Detainee Policy
I meant to post on this last week and clean forgot until I heard a bit of it on CSPAN radio yesterday. The Heritage Foundation held this event on detainee policy featuring all four people who have held t... -
Peter Margulies on Law, Ethics and the GTMO Hunger Strike
Peter Margulies, of Roger Williams School of Law, writes in with these comments on law, ethics, and the hunger strike ongoing at Guantanamo: The hunger strike at Guantanamo has put bioethics on the front... -
Center for Democracy and Technology Report on USG Proposals to Expand CALEA to Peer-to-Peer Communications
The New York Times has a story about the problems of expanding CALEA to on peer-to-peer communications. The story discusses a Center for Democracy and Technology report on the topic by several experts. ... -
The Washington Post, the AUMF, and Self-Defense
Ben quotes from this morning's Washington Post editorial on AUMF reform, the last two sentences of which assert that "Countering the jihadists with intelligence and law enforcement tools manifestly faile...
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