This remarkable Wall Street Journal story came out over Yom Kippur, so I'm late in commenting on it. But it's worth everyone's attention. It opens: About once a month, the Central Intelligence Agency sen...

Remember Nashiri v. MacDonald? That's the civil lawsuit that Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammed Al-Nashiri, a defendant in a military commission case at Guantanamo, brought against Bruce MacDonald, the commi...

Remember Suleiman v. Obama?  That's the habeas case in which the petitioner had claimed, among other things, that he could not be detained because he was merely a Taliban functionary who never took up ar...

The D.C.

Some detainee treatment news here: Attorney General Eric Holder today announced the end of a criminal investigation into the deaths of two detainees while in U.S. custody.

Lawfare readers will recall that in March the Supreme Court ordered the case of Kiobel v Royal Dutch Petroleum to be re-briefed and reargued to address the additional question of whether the Alien Tort S...

Here's the opinion--from a panel consisting of Judges Merrick Garland and Karen LeCraft Henderson and Chief Judge David Sentelle. The opinion denying Obaydullah's Guantanamo habeas appeal is a per curiam...

A new filing yesterday, in parallel FOIA actions regarding the targeted killing program: the government's  "Combined Opposition to Plaintiffs' Cross-Motions for Summary Judgment and Reply in Further Supp...

Following last week's motions hearing in Maqaleh and Hamidullah, the cases seeking habeas jurisdiction over the detention facility at Bagram, the petitioners in Maqaleh have filed a supplemental brief ar...

The government has filed its brief in opposition to the plantiffs' motion for a permanent injunction--and seeking dismissal of the case.

Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul has filed his reply brief in his appeal of his military commission conviction in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. You'll recall that Al Ba...

The government has filed its supplemental brief in Hamdan on the question of whether the case is moot. We shared a few weeks back Hamdan's supplemental brief on the issue. As Wells explained in that post...