As Josh Gerstein reports over at Politico, U.S. District Judge John D. Bates today granted the Al Maqaleh petitioners' motion for leave to file amended habeas petitions.  Al Maqaleh concerns the habeas p...

As noted below, Ambassador Hank Crumpton gave the keynote address at last week's symposium on air & missile warfare sponsored by the Texas International Law Journal.  His speech was terrific, and the Q&A...

The D.C. Circuit just issued its very brief decision to vacate and remand Hatim v. Gates (No. 10-5048). Text follows: PER CURIAM: Saeed Mohammed Saleh Hatim, a Yemeni national, is a prisoner at the Guant...

Another day, another D.C. Circuit argument preview coming a Yemeni detainee at Guantanamo Bay. This time, it's Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail, whose detention Judge Henry Kennedy approved last April. Esm...

Tara Mckelvey at Newsweek has a story about her interview of former CIA acting general counsel John Rizzo, regarding the internal CIA process associated with decisions to kill specific individuals.  The ...

Today we received the public version of the petitioner's response brief in Almerfedi v. Obama (No. 10-5291), a habeas merits case. In this appeal the government seeks review of Judge Paul Friedman’s sole...

In connection with the publication of his new book, Known and Unknown, Donald Rumsfeld has created an on-line library of interesting documents drawn from his time in U.S.

Gosh, I just don't know what to say. A trading card? I'm speechless.

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...