Earlier today, the government filed its response to Guantanamo detainee Mukhtar Yahia Naji al Warafi's petition for rehearing en banc before the D.C.

Although the majority of this afternoon's press conference focused on the NSA's surveillance programs (transcript available in my post below), President Obama did speak to a few other important national ...

Monday's ruling in United States v.

I saw this breathless story in the Daily Mail by reporter David Rose a few hours after seeing William Lietzau, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee matters, at a social event: The Penta...

"Does it really matter, from a legal perspective, whether the U.S.

This story from Ellen Nakashima and Anne Gearan, in the Washington Post, reports that the threat leading to the closure of so many embassies and consulates involves a direct order from Ayman al-Zawahiri ...

An article in the Washington Post today draws attention, once more (see here, for example), to the lingering question of what will become of the lingering population of detainees (all non-Afghans) remain...

There is an interesting article in the New York Times this morning, from Mark Mazzetti and Mark Landler, the thrust of which is captured by the headline: "Despite Administration Promises, Few Signs of Ch...

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The D.C. Circuit today scheduled oral argument in Aamer v. Obama, a Guantanamo hunger strike case.  (The court recently refused to the petitioners' request for an emergency injunction against forced-feed...