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The government's brief, and the petitioner's subsequent reply brief, are available in the case of Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed al-Kandari v. United States. Al Kandari is a Kuwaiti Guantanamo detainee who is seek...
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Further to Ben's post on the new DC Circuit decision in Khan v.
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I have only read the D.C. Circuit's Khan opinion very quickly and may have further thoughts when I dive in a little deeper.
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The D.C. Circuit has affirmed district court Judge John Bates's denial of Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus.
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Judging from his new book, In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney probably won't be participating in the Lawfare 10th Anniversary Project, which is devoted to acknowledging error and second though...
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* United States v. Mubayyid and Muntasser (1st Cir. Sep.
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On August 30, the Eleventh Circuit decisively dismissed a classic lawfare lawsuit -- an Alien Tort Statute suit brought against the former President and former Defense Minister of Bolivia (Gonzalo Sanche...
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That's what somebody in the government is saying today, on reading this Washington Post story about a contract dispute between two aviation companies involved in CIA renditions--a dispute that seems to i...
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In kicking off Lawfare's 9/11 10th anniversary project devoted to laying bare our own non-trivial errors of analysis or understanding over the last decade, I have a number from which to choose. All, howe...
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Over at the Weekly Standard's blog, Thomas Joscelyn has this piece critiquing a CNN report on Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari, whose habeas case we have covered here.
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In November 2009, the ACLU brought a suit on behalf of an American citizen--Amir Meshal--against two FBI agents and two unnamed officials, alleging the following: that he went to Somalia in 2006, that he...
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Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains e...
