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Happy Tenth Birthday, Guantanamo Bay.
The Miami Herald kick-starts the birthday festivities with this piece about what lies ahead for the detention facility and this article about why President Obama ha...
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If Ben needs something to tear into, there's also this--my guest post over at the ACSblog, which uses Judge Brown's disturbing rhetoric in Latif as a foil through which to evaluate this "anniversary." Re...
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Never fear, Ben! While the Times may have disappointed you today, NPR has stepped into the breach this morning with its Guantanamo anniversary story.
To be frank, I'm more than a little surprised by th...
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I was certain that today, being the tenth anniversary of the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility, I would awaken to a big, fat New York Times editorial, rife with factual errors for me to co...
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Brigadier General Mark Martins is, at this hour, giving the following address to the New York City Bar Association:
Remarks of Brigadier General Mark Martins
Chief Prosecutor, Military Commissions
T...
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...that Brookings is "conservative leaning"--at least according to MSNBC.
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Here is Part II of Peter Margulies's reporting from AALS:
AALS Federal Courts Debate II: Military Commissions and Material Support
The lively federal courts panel at the American Association of Law Scho...
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Peter Margulies of Roger Williams University School of Law has sent in two accounts of panel discussions at the annual meeting of the American Association of Law Schools. Here is the first:
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As its 10th anniversary nears, reflections and analysis on Guantananamo has been more notable than usual:
Former Guantanamo detainees will mark the day at the launch of an online project called Laa Tans...
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Published by Atlantic Monthly Press (2011)
Reviewed by Sonia McNeil
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The New York Times has this "Room for Debate" feature, in connection with Guantanamo's 10th anniversary as a terrorist detention facility tomorrow, on "What’s wrong with Guantánamo, and to what extent ha...
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I have not had the time to study carefully the constitutional issues related to President Obama’s recent controversial recess appointments. I worked on a few recess appointments during my time in the Bu...
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I have returned from my undislosed location and seized control of Headlines and Commentary once again.
In terrorism trials news, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the underwear bomber, was denied his request f...
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And oddly, the notional issue seems to be abuses at the side of the facility already controlled by Afghan, not international, forces.
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The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...
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...and his new book, Shawcross has an essay in today's Wall Street Journal, entitled "Terror on Trial." And John Yoo, also writing in the Journal, has a review of the book and of David Scheffer's All the...
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Published by PublicAffairs (2012)
Reviewed by Wells C. Bennett
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The government today filed this Opposition to a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction in the D.C. Circuit in response to filings earlier by high-value Guantanamo detainee Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi. What? Yo...
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Afghan president Hamid Karzai is demanding that the U.S. hand over control of the Parwan detention facility to the Afghan government, because a politically-appointed commission found "many cases of viola...
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At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we hel...
