President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, John Brennan, has given an extended interview to NPR on the administration's view of the NDAA's detainee affairs provision and its threat to veto the leg...

More amusing nonsense from Jon Stewart before the weekend: The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon - Thurs 11p / 10c

In a prior post surveying the impact of the Senate version of the NDAA bill (currently in conference negotiations), I emphasized that the Feinstein Amendment made clear that the NDAA did not alter, one w...

There's barely a true fact in it, but it's very funny:

The following is a continuation of our side-by-side comparison of the House and Senate versions of the NDAA: Prohibition of Detainee Transfer to the United States The House version of the bill (Section 1...

[UPDATE (12/9/11): See here for my updated assessment as to US citizens captured abroad.] On the day that the Senate passed its version of the NDAA, I wrote a post in the morning addressing whether the ...

As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...

The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover...

As Raff explains below, there was one amendment to S. 1867's detainee section that made it through: Senator Feinstein's amendment stating that the bill should not be read as favoring or disfavoring an in...