As readers no doubt are aware, the NYPD has arrested Jose Pimentel on an array of terrorism-related charges.  The case is distinctive in that it is not a federal prosecution, which is occasioning some co...

Having now returned from my undisclosed location, here's a transcript of the Senate floor debate on the NDAA. The Senate debated the bill on Thursday and Friday. This transcript, helpfully includes only...

Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:

Ben wrote last week about the Administration’s threat to veto the Defense Authorization Bill, in large part because of its detainee transfer and related provisions.

What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...

Reviewed by Kenneth Anderson Noam Lubell, Extraterritorial Use of Force Against Non-State Actors (Oxford 2010)

Several days ago, the government moved in the D.C. Circuit to challenge the counsel–and thus end the appeal–of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, whose military commission conviction and life sentence is...

Last week I noted that the United States seeks the extradition of Abdeladim El-Kabir, a man currently held in Germany based on allegations that he was part of an al Qaeda-related cell trained in Pakistan...

Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences--a veto--about the detainee provisions of the NDAA. The White House's Statement of Administration Poli...

Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:

Well, apropos of my prior post, the White House has in fact now issued a veto threat in relation to the detainee provisions in the NDAA.  The full text of the SAP is here, and the detainee-relevant langu...

I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben: "If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to...

When we last looked in on Al Maqaleh v. Gates, the case seeking to extend the right to federal habeas review for non-Afghan detainees held in the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Afghanistan, the pe...

The Senate's new NDAA language changes almost nothing. Yes, there are some technical adjustments, which Bobby has described in detail, and some of these may serve to lessen slightly the irrational burden...

Two weeks ago, I had a few posts discussing the scope of detention authority authorized under section 1031 of the then-pending SASC version of the NDAA, in response to Steve Vladeck's concern that the la...