I have not had the time to study carefully the constitutional issues related to President Obama’s recent controversial recess appointments.  I worked on a few recess appointments during my time in the Bu...

And oddly, the notional issue seems to be abuses at the side of the facility already controlled by Afghan, not international, forces.

The New York Times published two op-eds this weekend by former Guantánamo detainees -- one by Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, which extended a constitutional right to the wr...

...and his new book, Shawcross has an essay in today's Wall Street Journal, entitled "Terror on Trial." And John Yoo, also writing in the Journal, has a review of the book and of David Scheffer's All the...

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The government today filed this Opposition to a Motion for a Preliminary Injunction in the D.C. Circuit in response to filings earlier by high-value Guantanamo detainee Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi. What? Yo...

At one point prior to 2009, [Update: In my haste this morning, I erred by referring to 100,000 detainees in Iraq at a single point in time, when instead I meant to refer to the volume of detainees we hel...

Last week Charlie Savage had an interesting follow-up to his well-known 2007 questions to the presidential candidates about their views on executive power.  The most important line in Savage’s story is t...

Over at Secrecy News, Steve Aftergood has posted a bunch of new CRS reports of interest to readers of this blog: With the formal ending of the U.S. war in Iraq on December 15, 2011, the Congressional Res...