Last week I noted that the United States seeks the extradition of Abdeladim El-Kabir, a man currently held in Germany based on allegations that he was part of an al Qaeda-related cell trained in Pakistan...

Finally, the administration has spoken clearly, directly, and with direct references to consequences--a veto--about the detainee provisions of the NDAA. The White House's Statement of Administration Poli...

Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:

Well, apropos of my prior post, the White House has in fact now issued a veto threat in relation to the detainee provisions in the NDAA.  The full text of the SAP is here, and the detainee-relevant langu...

I was just reading a piece by Adam Serwer (Mother Jones) regarding the NDAA detainee provisions, and came across this pithy line from Ben: "If Congress is going to take the president seriously, it has to...

When we last looked in on Al Maqaleh v. Gates, the case seeking to extend the right to federal habeas review for non-Afghan detainees held in the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Afghanistan, the pe...

The Senate's new NDAA language changes almost nothing. Yes, there are some technical adjustments, which Bobby has described in detail, and some of these may serve to lessen slightly the irrational burden...

Two weeks ago, I had a few posts discussing the scope of detention authority authorized under section 1031 of the then-pending SASC version of the NDAA, in response to Steve Vladeck's concern that the la...