House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon lost no time in introducing legislation in response to the President’s Executive Order yesterday. Here is a quick and dirty analysis. A word of disclosure is in...

That is the title of an informal essay of mine, just posted as part of a collection of essays on future challenges in national security by the members of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Sec...

The New York Times editorial today contains a notable omission: It does not say that the long-term detention of people at Guantanamo Bay is illegal. For those who have followed my quixotic campaign (here...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon announced today that he is introducing legislation "to address the Administration’s Executive Order and America’s terrorist prosecution and detention p...

What appears to be one of the most significant changes in U.S. detention policy announced by the White House yesterday was not included in the new Executive Order but, rather, was buried at the very en...

Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has been taking a beating for his planned hearing on radicalization in the Muslim-American community--and that is probably not unjus...

Over the last week, the Department of Justice has been busy filing responses to several of the Guantánamo detainees’ cert. petitions: It has submitted four briefs to the Supreme Court in the span of just...

I expected that today's Executive Order would be criticized in some quarters on the ground that the status quo should not be further institutionalized in this way (a position that is, in my view, the ver...

This afternoon the D.C. Circuit responded to the government's request for a temporary stay in Almerfedi v. Obama by granting the motion.

I could pick nits about the President's Executive Order, but I don't feel like it. The truth of the matter is that this is pretty good policy. There are minor things I might have done differently, but th...

Today's executive order on GTMO detention review ("Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force"; see also the fact shee...

The administration today released its much-anticipated executive order on detention policy: Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantánamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use o...

As expected, today the government did appeal to the D.C. Circuit Judge Friedman's decision to deny its motion for a stay pending the merits appeal of Almerfedi v. Obama. The government wrote in its emerg...

I recently posted comments from John Dehn (West Point) responding to comments from Raha Wala (Human Rights First) on the military commission system.  Raha has now written a reply to John: I appreciate Pr...

On Thursday morning, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in the latest in a long string of habeas appeals to make their way up the appellate chain: Masaab Al-Madhwani v. Bara...

“I think the international community’s is going to come together . . . to try to have a coordinated effort to bring pressure on Gadhafi,” said White House Chief of Staff Bill Daley, yesterday, on Meet th...

More happened in Almerfedi v. Obama last week than just the release of the final public merits brief. Yesterday Judge Friedman denied the government's motion for a stay of the district court's order pend...

Here is the video of my talk today at Politics & Prose on Detention & Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo. It is broken up into four segments. My thanks to Politics & Prose for hosting me and to...

I have been meaning for some time to post thoughts on the recent habeas denial in the case of Mashour Abudllah Muqbel Alsabri. It has slipped, however, because the opinion by Judge Ricardo Urbina, at 60 ...