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Over at CAAFLOG, Dwight Sullivan has this long post on the continuing saga of Scott Horton's National Magazine Award--about which I wrote here. Sullivan is responding to this article by Dr. Jeffrey Kaye ...
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I have only one point to add to Bobby's post earlier today on the opinion by Judge Royce Lamberth in the al-Hajj case. The D.C. Circuit has so far avoided addressing issues related to the voluntariness o...
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Habeas lawyer David Remes sent in the following comments on recent developments in D.C. Circuit case law. He emphasizes that he has been counsel in several of the cases discussed below and that the follo...
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In a 13-page opinion made public today (but dated May 23, 2011), Judge Lamberth in al-Hajj v.
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There's been quite a bit of activity in the Guantanamo habeas courtrooms since Larkin last posted these statistics in mid-April. Last week's voluntary dismissal of Fahmi Al Assani's and Suleiman Al Nadhi...
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ABC News (among other sources) reports:
In a new video message released on the internet Friday, American-born al Qaeda spokesman Adam Gadahn calls on Muslims living in America to carry out deadly one-man...
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Two Guantanamo detainees, Fahmi Al-Assani and Suleiman Al-Nahdi, have moved the D.C. Circuit to dismiss their habeas appeals (Al-Assani's motion is here, Al-Nahdi's is here).
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The D.C. Circuit has denied rehearing en banc to Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, whose habeas case the court decided in March.
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Several pieces in the news today may be of interest to Lawfare Readers.
The Washington Post reports on the Pentagon's list of critical cyber-weapons:
The Pentagon has developed a list of cyber-weapo...
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The administration just issued a Statement of Administration Policy on a DHS appropriations bill (H.R. 2017), which contains a spending restriction similar to one of the Guantanamo transfer restrictions ...
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DOD has just announced that charges have now been sworn by military commission prosecutors in the case against KSM and four others linked to the 9/11 attacks. From DOD's press release:
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Last week I posted about the views of some in Congress who are upset that the government might not employ the military commission system to prosecute certain offenses committed in Iraq. I noted that the...