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NPR on "Guantanamo North"
Carrie Johnson and Margot Williams of National Public Radio have a very interesting two-part series on what they call "Guantanamo North"--"two secretive units for convicted terrorists and other inmates w... -
Reminder: Politics and Prose Event
Just a reminder that I will be reading from, talking about, and signing copies of Detention and Denial at Politics and Prose in Washington DC on Saturday afternoon at 1 pm. -
American Media Patriotism – Response to Walt
My friend Steve Walt weighs in against media patriotism. But he gives the game away, I think, when he says: “There are undoubtedly some narrow circumstances when a patriotic journalist should decline to... -
We Have Seen the Enemy
The meme has been floating about for some time: the D.C. Circuit--and, particularly, the evil Judge A. Raymond Randolph--is subverting habeas, fighting a rear-guard action against the rule of law, and tu... -
Judicial Vacancies and Guantanamo
At Monday's Brookings event on judicial nominations, Chief Judge Royce Lamberth of the D.C. District Court offered a few thoughts on the impact of judicial vacancies on the D.C. -
A Reply to Ken Jost
In his thoughtful critique of Jack and my recent statements, Ken Jost makes three distinct points that are each worthy of consideration. I will address them in turn. First, he writes, "The supposed dile... -
American Media Patriotism – Response to Greenwald
Glenn Greenwald has an interesting response to my post on the patriotism of American media, but he exaggerates the significance of the media’s patriotic bent, and he misses some important points. To beg... -
Ken Jost Says No to Embracing Guantanamo
Kenneth Jost of CQ Press and the Jost on Justice blog critiques Jack and me for our suggestions that it's time for President Obama to embrace Guantanamo: In a controversy with national security hawks on ... -
Al Warafi Transcript
Speaking of Al Warafi, I promised after the oral argument a few weeks back that I would reality-check my summary of the argument on a key point against the transcript of the argument when one became avai... -
Thoughts on Al Warafi
Ever since the D.C. Circuit last week handed down its per curiam opinionlet in Al Warafi, I have been puzzling over this brief, unpublished order. I have begun to think it may be more important that I in... -
The Patriotism of the American Media
In its story last week about the ties between the CIA and Raymond Davis, the American recently arrested in Pakistan, the New York Times offered this explanation for why it sat on the story: The New York ... -
Do US Detention Practices Engender Support for the Taliban? Daphne Eviatar and I Debate....
Daphne Eviatar and I have an interesting exchange underway, one that I think nicely illustrates some of the key points of legal disagreement that underly the detention debate (such as whether the ICCPR a...
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