Over at the Long War Journal, Thomas Joscelyn--with whom Bobby and I have lately been sparring on Guantanamo transfers--has an interesting piece on the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Al Alwi.

Yesterday's government win before Judge Kennedy and the D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in Al Alwi require an update to the habeas numbers, which are now as follows: Uighur cases in which detention was dee...

Slate's Dahlia Lithwick has posted excerpts from the Aspen Security Forum event to which I linked on Sunday.

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). There is no unclassified opinion yet. We will post it as soon as it b...

Nicholas Schmidle has a piece up at the New Yorker providing the most detailed account I've yet seen of the raid that killed bin Laden.  It's a gripping read, obviously very well informed by JSOC sources...

Check out the composition of this panel--which must of stressed all of Dahlia Lithwick's copious social skills to keep civil. I haven't watched it yet, but I thought I would flag it for interested reade...

The UK Human Rights Blog has this analysis of the British government's detainee inquiry, which is just getting off the ground.

An interesting column by David Ignatius pointed me to this fascinating-looking report by Richard Danzig, Marc Sageman, and others. Published by the Center for a New American Security, the report is entit...

I came away from today's HASC hearing much more optimistic about the future course of our detention/prosecution policy than I had been coming in, as there were signs of what I hope will become consensus ...

Today's House Armed Services Hearing on "Ten Years After the 2001 AUMF: Current Status of Legal Authorities, Detention, and Prosecution in the War on Terror" included testimony from the following witness...

I have now had a chance to read Gul, the other D.C. Circuit case that came down on Friday. Gul establishes a proposition that, in my opinion at least, should be pretty obvious: that Guantanamo habeas jur...

I normally have a pretty good read on the D.C. Circuit in habeas cases. Not this time. Al Alwi, one of the decisions which Wells posted yesterday, took me rather by surprise. To be true to what I wrote ...