A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3...

The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.  He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...

A three-judge panel (Judges Henderson, Griffith and Edwards) of the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the District Court's decision to deny Guantanamo detainee Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain's petition for a writ ...

Wells already flagged yesterday's news re: General Martins' apparent skepticism about the availability of conspiracy and military commission charges in future military commission cases (at least those br...

We are back at Fort Meade, ready to cover today's almost live motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. The festivities will begin at 0900. Read our coverage of yesterday's hearings here.

Five years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, holding that the Constitution's Suspension Clause "has full effect" at Guantánamo Bay, and that the review sche...

On Monday, the Ninth Circuit heard argument in Hamad v. Gates and Al-Nashiri v. MacDonald, two civil cases involving Guantanamo.

So report the New York Times and the Washington Post.  

As I noted yesterday, I have an essay at CFR on the President's speech.  I don’t write the headlines or the summaries of my pieces, and I was surprised and dismayed when someone at CFR summarized my piec...

Ryan Goodman and Sarah Knuckey maintain that the new targeting framework announced by the President “raises some troubling questions and leaves important older questions completely unanswered.”  Their li...