The government has moved the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear en banc the Vance case, which last month allowed a suit to proceed against former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld by U.S. citizen...

More than a month ago, U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy denied the habeas petition of a Guantanamo detainee named Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). The opinion was classified at the time, but has n...

The briefing in Alsabri v.

The appellant and appellee briefs for Alsabri v. Obama, a Guantanamo habeas case in the D.C. Circuit, are now available. You can read Ben's thoughts on the District Court's decision here and Bobby's thou...

The government's brief, and the petitioner's subsequent reply brief, are available in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seek...

Yesterday the Justice Department filed a memorandum (h/t Charlie Savage) in support of its motion to dismiss the lawsuit by ten members of Congress against President Obama over the Libya operation.  The ...

Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood writes: The government’s treatment of former National Security Agency official Thomas Drake was abusive and akin to acts of British tyranny in pre-Revolutionary War ...

Shane Harris of Washingtonian magazine has a lengthy profile on the magazine's web site of William Welch, who is the Justice Department's point man on leaks cases.

A dramatic announcement just now from the Justice Department, concerning the outcome of the Durham Investigation into CIA interrogation practices.  It is unclear from the context whether that investigati...

The appellant's brief in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States is now public. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seeking to reverse the Judge Colleen Kollar Kotelly...

The appellant's reply brief is now available for Suleiman v. Obama. Petitioner Abdulrahman Suleiman challenges Judge Reggie Walton’s July 2010 decision denying him the writ of habeas corpus.

The appellant's brief in the case al-Zahrani et al. v. Donald Rumsfeld is now available. This case relates to the reported suicides at Guantanano in 2006, the conspiracy theories about which Ben wrote he...