Today pretrial hearings resume in the 9/11 case, yesterday's hearing having consisted entirely of an administrative Rule 802 conference (and thus, no argument on motions).

I've fallen behind in linking to the short essays being published by the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.

Just on the heels of the Anonymous takeover of the US Sentencing Commission website, the New York Times is reporting that its network has been subject to persistent hacking over the last four months at t...

That's the gist of this order, issued today by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, in Rimi v. Obama. The detainee, who had been transferred from Guantanamo to Libya in 2006, unsuccessfully sought h...

Back in 2011, I posted on the civilian criminal prosecution of a pair of former Iraqi residents Mohanad Shareef Hamadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan.  Both men were charged with having been involved in the insu...

Although our own coverage of this week's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantánamo already covered the issue in some detail, I couldn't help but be taken by Amy Davidson's...

On All Things Considered this evening, NPR's Ari Shapiro ran this story on the closing of Amb.

As is now familiar to everyone, rather difficult questions arise when we discuss the scope of the AUMF, the current scope of "al Qaeda," the meaning of "associated forces," and the circumstances under wh...

AE50, our day's last, is James Connell III’s request to compel the production of three witnesses. The first is Robin Maher, an attorney who helped to develop the ABA’s guidelines on capital cases---a le...