John Dehn (West Point) has responded to Raha Wala (Human Rights First) in the latest round of their ongoing exchange relating to military commissions.  Addressing Raha's most recent post, John writes: I ...

House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon lost no time in introducing legislation in response to the President’s Executive Order yesterday. Here is a quick and dirty analysis. A word of disclosure is in...

That is the title of an informal essay of mine, just posted as part of a collection of essays on future challenges in national security by the members of the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Sec...

The New York Times editorial today contains a notable omission: It does not say that the long-term detention of people at Guantanamo Bay is illegal. For those who have followed my quixotic campaign (here...

House Armed Services Committee Chairman Buck McKeon announced today that he is introducing legislation "to address the Administration’s Executive Order and America’s terrorist prosecution and detention p...

What appears to be one of the most significant changes in U.S. detention policy announced by the White House yesterday was not included in the new Executive Order but, rather, was buried at the very en...

Rep. Peter King, Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, has been taking a beating for his planned hearing on radicalization in the Muslim-American community--and that is probably not unjus...

Over the last week, the Department of Justice has been busy filing responses to several of the Guantánamo detainees’ cert. petitions: It has submitted four briefs to the Supreme Court in the span of just...

I expected that today's Executive Order would be criticized in some quarters on the ground that the status quo should not be further institutionalized in this way (a position that is, in my view, the ver...

This afternoon the D.C. Circuit responded to the government's request for a temporary stay in Almerfedi v. Obama by granting the motion.

I could pick nits about the President's Executive Order, but I don't feel like it. The truth of the matter is that this is pretty good policy. There are minor things I might have done differently, but th...

Today's executive order on GTMO detention review ("Periodic Review of Individuals Detained at Guantanamo Bay Naval Station Pursuant to the Authorization for Use of Military Force"; see also the fact shee...