Rising before the D.C. Circuit this morning on behalf of Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail, Danielle Barbour faces some non-trivial problems.

We haven't circulated an update on the Guantanamo habeas numbers in a while, and this new set includes updates in several categories, as well as a minor methodological change. Previously we had separate...

Both Jack and I will be part of a Guantanamo-focused event this Friday at American's Washington College of Law, from 12 to 2.  Jack delivers the keynote address, and then I'll appear as a panelist alongs...

As Josh Gerstein reports over at Politico, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates today granted the Al Maqaleh petitioners' motion for leave to file amended habeas petitions.  Al Maqaleh concerns the habeas p...

As noted below, Ambassador Hank Crumpton gave the keynote address at last week's symposium on air & missile warfare sponsored by the Texas International Law Journal.  His speech was terrific, and the Q&A...

The D.C. Circuit just issued its very brief decision to vacate and remand Hatim v. Gates (No. 10-5048). Text follows: PER CURIAM: Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, a Yemeni national, is a prisoner at the Guant...

Another day, another D.C. Circuit argument preview coming a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay. This time, it's Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail, whose detention Judge Henry Kennedy approved last April. Esm...

Tara Mckelvey at Newsweek has a story about her interview of former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo, regarding the internal CIA process associated with decisions to kill specific individuals.  The ...

Today we received the public version of the petitioner's response brief in Almerfedi v. Obama (No. 10-5291), a habeas merits case. In this appeal the government seeks review of Judge Paul Friedman’s sole...

In connection with the publication of his new book, Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld has created an on-line library of interesting documents drawn from his time in U.S.

Gosh, I just don't know what to say. A trading card? I'm speechless.

Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman is in trouble. Facing a relatively congenial D.C. Circuit panel for a Guantanamo detainee and represented by counsel who did an excellent job presenting his case, he ma...

Because of a string of commitments and meetings this afternoon, I will probably not have a chance to write up an account of today's oral argument in the Uthman case until this evening. I know this will l...

I have an op-ed on that topic, in today’s Washington Post, summarizing themes I have articulated on this blog.  The essence of the argument: The first problem with going after Assange is that the effort ...

After receiving both parties' responses to its order from last week to show cause why a certain district court order from the Hatim case should not be unsealed, today the D.C.

Earlier today, General Mark Martins participated (by teleconference) in a press conference in order to bring folks up to speed on the Rule of Law-Field Force's (ROLFF) latest activities in Afghanistan (f...

Today the D.C. Circuit issued its disposition of (Tofiq) Al Bihani v. Obama (Case No. 10-5352) with an order granting the parties' joint motion for summary affirmance.  The parties had agreed in their mo...