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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... -
July 19 D.C. Bar Panel on Military Commissions, Present and Future
For D.C.-area readers, I'll be participating in what should be a lively discussion of the current and future legal and policy issues surrounding military commissions (I suspect it will be that much livel... -
The New National Security Canon
Why have victims of alleged governmental misconduct arising out of post-September 11 counter-terrorism policies met with virtually no success thus far in pursuing damages claims arising out of the govern... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
Big Pakistan news day today. The Associated Press reports that ISAF Commander General John Allen is meeting the Frenemies today to discuss the still-at-large Haqqani network and the still-not-open suppl...
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