On Thursday, Judge Richard Leon of the U.S. District Court in D.C. issued a little-noticed decision granting dismissal in Al Janko v. Gates. The case is noteworthy, however, because Al Janko–unlike other...

In September, a team of Dutch virologists announced that they had created a strain of the avian influenza (H5N1) that, at least in lab animals, was as contagious as the seasonal flu.

Stephen Voss, a philosophy professor at Bogazici University in Istanbul, writes in with the following response to Bobby's and my NDAA FAQ: The current NDAA contains, in section 1021, legislation that may...

David Glazier (Loyola Los Angeles) writes in with the following guest post in response to my earlier musings on the distribution of blame for the outcome in the Ali Musa Daqduq case: I think the analysis...

Joanne Mariner of Hunter College's Human Rights Program, writing at Justicia.com, has this lengthy analysis of the NDAA from a human rights and civil liberties point of view. It is the first half of a tw...

Counsel for Guantanamo habeas petitioners Uthman, Almerfedi, and Latif--all of whom have cert petitions pending or imminent--have asked the Supreme Court to hold off on deciding whether to grant until th...

Raha Wala of Human Rights First has rewritten Bobby and my NDAA FAQ. Here is his very commendable effort: While I agree that much of he public discussion of the NDAA provisions has been hyperbolic, I als...

As Lawfare readers know only too well, I don't engage with He Who Must Not Be Named on this Blog. I do, however, engage with Seema Saifee, who represents four Guantanamo Uighurs (three of whom are no lon...

Another bad development in the Daqduq situation (see here if you don't know whom I'm talking about).  According to the AP, Iraqi officials have indicated that the only charge they plan to bring against A...

We've previously covered the Fourth Circuit's pair of decisions in September dismissing tort suits against various contractors arising out of claims of torture at various detention facilities in Iraq--in...

The volume of sheer, unadulterated nonsense zipping around the internet about the NDAA boggles the mind. There was a time--only a few months ago--when the NDAA detention provisions were the obscure provi...