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The First Lawfare Drone Smackdown
I have been challenged to a dogfight. The other day, over lunch, Alice Beauheim--occasional Lawfare book review writer, godmother of the Lawfare license plate, and an employee, if you catch my meaning, ... -
Negotiations Ongoing For The Transfer of Kuwaiti GTMO Detainees
That's the word from The Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg. She also reports that the sworn-but-never-referred military commission charges against Faiz al Kandari, one of two Kuwaitis still held at Guantan... -
ACLU Opposition to CIA Motion to Remand in DC Circuit FOIA Case
From the Blog of the Legal Times, we learn that the ACLU has filed its opposition to the CIA's motion to remand, in the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") appeal now awaiting oral argument before the D.C. -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
Lots of healthcare national security news and commentary today. In developments Bobby discussed yesterday, the Associated Press reports on the new developments in the Al Kidd case—namely, that federal M... -
Proxy Detention in Somalia, and the Detention-Drone Tradeoff
There has been speculation about the effect of the Obama administration’s pinched detention policy – i.e. no new detainees brought to GTMO, and no new detainees to Parwan (Afghanistan) from outside Afgha... -
Faster Than You Can Say "Wahid": Petitioner Transferred, Order Vacated
Remember Tuesday's order in Wahid v. -
The Saudi Gazette Wants Guantanamo Closed
This is rich. An English-language Saudi newspaper, the Saudi Gazette, has an editorial entitled "Close Guantanamo" bashing President Obama for failing to keep his campaign pledge to close the detention ... -
Al-Amyn Sumar on Latif and the Presumption of Regularity
The Harvard Law Review has published this article on the Latif decision as its presumption of regularity by a student named Al-Amyn Sumar. The article is dated in two important respects--first, that it a... -
Victory for al-Kidd in Material Witness Civil Suit
Apropos of Steve's fascinating post (and essay) concerning judicial reluctance to permit civil suits to go forward in national security related cases: new developments in connection with the al-Kidd liti... -
SCOTUS Affirms 9th Circuit in Alvarez
In case you didn't hear, more than one opinion came down today at the Supreme Court. In addition to the health care decision, the justices affirmed the 9th Circuit's invalidation of the Stolen Valor Act,... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
A light news day on the law-and-security front--so you can focus on the health care decision. The Taliban has released a video that allegedly shows seventeen beheaded Pakistani soldiers. -
Bahlul Files Reply Brief
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...
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