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The President's Speech: Lawmakers React to Obama's Renewed Transfer Efforts
Among the policies President Obama announced in his speech: a renewed commitment to transfer detainees to third countries, where possible. To that end, he said he would appoint a new GTMO-focused envoy a... -
Text of the President's Speech This Afternoon
The President's remarks follow below. The Future of our Fight against Terrorism Remarks of President Barack Obama – As Prepared for Delivery National Defense University May 23, 2013 -
Eric Holder Comments on Civilian Justice System
Attorney General Eric Holder yesterday made these remarks at the University of California Berkeley School of Law's Commencement. -
POTUS on Guantanamo Closure
Earlier this morning, President Obama conducted a news conference. The questions touched on, among other things, the closure of the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, and the detainees' ongoing hunge... -
Hedges: CA2 Refuses Supplemental Briefing and Argument On Issues Arising From Clapper
So we learn from this order, handed down yesterday, by the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. In a letter filed after the Hedges oral argument, attorneys for the government had cited... -
Now Available: Charges Against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
The freshly unsealed criminal complaint was filed sometime yesterday. -
Brookings' Allan Friedman on the Rhetoric Surrounding CISPA
My Brookings colleague Allan Friedman, a technology and cybersecurity expert, sent over this comment on the House's approval, yesterday, of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act ("CIS... -
District Court: No Jurisdiction Over Emergency GTMO Motion on Water, Cold
That's the gist of this report, filed earlier today by Politico's Josh Gerstein: A federal judge declined Monday to take action on behalf of a hunger-striking prisoner at Guantanamo Bay whose attorneys s... -
Redacted USG and Defense Briefs in Ghailani Appeal
Now available in redacted form: the government's opposition brief and the defendant's reply in United States v. Ghailani, a criminal case arising from the 1998 bombing of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanz... -
New Draft of House CISPA Bill
The House Intelligence Committee has released a new draft of the Cybersecurity Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act. I think it is fair to say that the bill is becoming increasingly more moderate as ... -
Petitioner's Further Briefing in GTMO Hunger Strike Dispute
Yesterday, pursuant to Judge Thomas Hogan's recent order, lawyers for habeas petitioner Musa'ab Omar al-Madhwani filed a brief addressing the district court's jurisdiction to hear al-Madhwani's emergency... -
Exhibits in the Al Madhwani Emergency Motion
Here are a bunch, which I should have included in my post this morning on Musa'ab Al Madhwani's emergency motion on clothing, temperature, and potable water: Declaration of Stephen N.
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