Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman is in trouble. Facing a relatively congenial D.C. Circuit panel for a Guantanamo detainee and represented by counsel who did an excellent job presenting his case, he ma...

Because of a string of commitments and meetings this afternoon, I will probably not have a chance to write up an account of today's oral argument in the Uthman case until this evening. I know this will l...

I have an op-ed on that topic, in today’s Washington Post, summarizing themes I have articulated on this blog.  The essence of the argument: The first problem with going after Assange is that the effort ...

After receiving both parties' responses to its order from last week to show cause why a certain district court order from the Hatim case should not be unsealed, today the D.C.

Earlier today, General Mark Martins participated (by teleconference) in a press conference in order to bring folks up to speed on the Rule of Law-Field Force's (ROLFF) latest activities in Afghanistan (f...

Today the D.C. Circuit issued its disposition of (Tofiq) Al Bihani v. Obama (Case No. 10-5352) with an order granting the parties' joint motion for summary affirmance.  The parties had agreed in their mo...

Last week, Under Secretary of the Army Joseph Westphal gave a speech at the University of Utah’s Hinckley Institute of Politics on the subject of “The Impact of Education on the Armed Forces in the 21st ...

Yesterday the government filed its opposition to the Kiyemba III petition for certiorari. We mentioned Kiyemba III in this post a few months back, and discussed briefly the question in what was then a n...

Tomorrow morning, a panel of the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals will hear arguments in another Guantanamo habeas case, that of Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman (Case No. 10-5235). The case, captioned un...