Over at the New York Times Room for Debate forum, Andy McCarthy, Orin Kerr, Diane Marie Aman, and I are engaged in an exchange of views about what lessons if any to draw from the Ghailani verdict.  So fa...

Jack and I have written this oped in the Washington Post on the Ghailani verdict. It begins: The Obama administration's critics are missing the point on Ahmed Ghailani. Their reaction to his acquittal th...

In my post earlier today concerning CCR's terrible statement on the Ghalani verdict, I noted that Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First had seemed to endorse it on Twitter and wondered if HRF really meant...

(Benjamin Wittes & Robert Chesney) Debra Burlingame, a co-director of Keep America Safe and the sister of September 11 pilot Charles Burlingame III, sent the following in response to our post on Ghailan...

The Center for Constitutional Rights has issued what I think is a genuinely shocking statement on the Ghailani verdict--one which really lays bare the group's position on terrorist trials: CCR questions...

I agree with Ben and Bobby that the disappointing Ghailani verdict does not imply that the prosecution should have been brought in a military commission.

(Benjamin Wittes & Robert Chesney) The Ghailani verdict is going to play badly--very badly--in the political arena. It won't matter that he will receive a minimum of a 20-year prison sentence and could ...

Ahmed Ghailani, charged with some 280 counts of conspiracy and murder in relation to the 1998 East African Embassy Bombings, has been convicted on one conspiracy count--but otherwise acquitted on all cha...

I have a lot of regard for Jeffrey Goldberg, and partly for that reason, I'm a little taken aback by these comments made to Mother Jones concerning Anwar Al-Aulaqi. Goldberg has been on overdrive recentl...

Responding to my earlier post on Buck McKeon's detention bill, Adam Serwer says the following, on which I cannot improve: I still maintain that there's less difference between Republican and administrati...

Not too many folks are familiar with the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, a body Congress created in 2000 to report periodically on, well, economic and security issues associated with ...

In his speech yesterday, incoming House Armed Services chairman Buck McKeon promised that his committee would work in the coming Congress on a "legal framework" for detention. Here's hoping he is more se...