Whatever else one might say about the D.C. Circuit's jurisprudence in the Guantanamo litigation, it's certainly been a jobs program...

The New York Times's Scott Shane this morning has a very beautifully reported feature story about domestic prisons, law enforcement, and terrorism cases. It is a rich read, including some fascinating cor...

I bet you thought this would be a post about Ali Musa Daqduq.  But, no, this is about Faruq Khalil Muhammad 'Isa, who has been indicted in Brooklyn on charges of conspiring to kill U.S.

A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.

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...

Jubair Ahmad, a Pakistani man residing in the United States who created and uploaded an LeT propoganda video at LeT's request, has pled guilty to violating the 1996 material support statute, 18 USC 2339B...

The government has, unsurprisingly, filed a brief in opposition to Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman's cert petition. Uthman, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, had asked the Supreme Court to review this d...

There was a guilty plea today in United States v. Yusuf (S.D. Cal. Dec.

Daphne Eviatar of Human Rights First writes in with the following comments on Latif and the detention provisions of the NDAA:

What do you think the chances are that the New York Times editorial folks could have managed to produce this editorial--and without any glaring factual errors--without having read this post and this one ...

Several days ago, the government moved in the D.C. Circuit to challenge the counsel–and thus end the appeal–of Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul, whose military commission conviction and life sentence is...