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The United States has filed its appellate brief in the case of Al-Janko v.
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Amidst all the hubbub earlier this week, we neglected to note the filing of a new cert. petition in a Guantánamo habeas case--in Obaydullah v. Obama, filed in the Supreme Court on Tuesday. Our coverage o...
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In other habeas news, detainee Obaydullah has noted his appeal to the D.C.
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Remember the Guantanamo detention case of Hentif v.
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Several years ago, in a prescient op-ed in the Washington Post, our colleague John Bellinger argued that the September 2001 AUMF was an increasingly poor fit for the evolving threats facing the United St...
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I have posted previously about a criminal investigation in Poland targeting the former head of Poland's intelligence service, based on his alleged cooperation in establishing a CIA black site on Polish t...
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With Abraham Lincoln back in the news, the Federal Judicial Center has posted a series of neat documents about the suspension of habeas corpus and the Ex Parte Merryman case. Here's a brief history of th...
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Yesterday, the AP released an English translation of what appears to be a 2011 Al Qaeda tip sheet. (AP journalists evidently found the document in Timbuktu.) Its author, AQAP senior commander Abdullah ...
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We return from an hour’s break, with some GTMO press refreshed by milkshakes purchased from Fort Meade’s Burger King. A video teleconference with CDR Jennifer Strazza, our next witness, awaits. Some nu...
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Nine minutes past the hour, and the session resumes with some bickering about delays. Recess was supposed to last until 1300, but, alas, we’ve reconvened a bit after that. Judge Pohl wants an explanat...
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“The commission is called to order,” Judge Pohl says. Back to CDR Walter Ruiz, and his witness: the Convening Authority, with a visage grainy in the video-teleconference monitor (itself piped to us here...