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A few years ago I wrote a paper about the cycle of detention law and policy over time in Iraq, and among other conclusions I observed that the sustainability of overseas, US-administered detention facili...
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In his post on Senator Rand Paul's proposal regarding citizens and the NDAA, Bobby highlights a recurring and important question: why is it so hard for ostensibly civil libertarian legislators explicitly...
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In papers filed Friday, the government renewed its request for a summary affirmance, and opposed an attempt by habeas petitioner Mohammed Rimi to remand his appeal to the district court.
Rimi was transf...
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Ben notes what appears to be a draft proposal from Senator Rand Paul to amend the NDAA so as to address situations involving American citizens captured inside the United States. While the context sugges...
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The government has advised the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals that it may not have jurisdiction over a Guantanamo habeas appeal it is getting ready to hear. Last year, the government prevailed in the dist...
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Chief Judge Lamberth has granted the government’s motion to dismiss a first amended habeas petition filed by a Pakistani citizen held at Bagram, following the Circuit’s decision in al Maqaleh (and the su...
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The other day, my Brookings colleague Daniel Byman held an event entitled "Yemen and the Future of a Resurgent Al Qaeda." One of the two panelists was Gregory Johnsen, the author of the recently-released...
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So reports ABC News: Ali Mussa Daqduq---background on him here---is now a free man.
A Hezbollah commander wanted by the United States has been released from Iraqi custody and returned to the Lebanese cap...
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District Judge Paul L.
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John McLaughlin, who was Deputy Director of the CIA from 2000-2004, has a nice essay in FP on how the patterns of terrorism we face today differ from the ones that prevailed in the years after 9/11. Man...
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Attorneys for Senators John McCain, Lindsey Graham, and Kelly Ayotte---all members of the Senate Committee on Armed Services---have filed an amicus brief in support of the government in Hedges v.
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David Remes, who represents several Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo Bay, writes in response to my comments this morning on Eric Lewis's New York Times column:
Ben chides Eric Lewis for setting goals Ben t...