The fated hour arrives, and the military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, ascends the bench.  Your correspondents hear the starting gun; our week-long hearing commences in earnest.

Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua...

Monday at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week’s worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.  When we have the docketing order we'll shar...

Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.

Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo.  As I’ve argue...

David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”: The oped is quite disappointing. In br...

I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight.

The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill...

August 12 is the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions.  As a candidate, Senator Obama was highly critical of the Bush Administration’s non-application of the Geneva Conventions to de...

Last Tuesday, Judge Vitaliano of the Eastern District of New York dismissed a FOIA suit seeking access to NSC records about the drone program.