[Update: Mary replies to this post here.] Ben's commentary on Mary Dudziak's NYT piece has generated this reply from Mary, in which she raises several interesting questions.  As a general proposition, I...

I hope it is not snarkish to hope that by the time I hit "publish" on this post, the director of the National Constitution Center's "Peter Jennings Project," Todd Brewster, will have corrected his articl...

In a recent ABC News/Washington Post poll, seventy percent of respondents (including a majority of self-identified liberal Democrats) said they approve of keeping open the Guantanamo Bay detention facili...

Over at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox of the CUNY Law School has this very interesting post on redactions in the Alsabri Guantanamo habeas case--which was decided at the District Court leve...

NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options.  It's an important topic.  Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...

I have only flipped through the House Armed Services subcommittee report entitled, "Leaving Guantanamo: Policies, Pressures, and Detainees Returning to the Fight," and I find I have little to say about it.

House Armed Services Chairman Buck McKeon released the following statement on the detainee recidivism report: House Armed Services Committee Releases Report on Risk Levels in the Release of Detainees fr...

Further to the prior exchange between myself and Kevin Jon Heller regarding allegations of drone strikes targeting persons in the context of funerals or post-strike rescue activity, Jens David Ohlin has ...

Raffaela is correct that there's nothing terribly surprising in the D.C. Circuit's Suleiman opinion, which was publicly released yesterday. In fact, the brief opinion--written by Judge Thomas Griffith fo...