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Raha Wala (Human Rights First) Responds on Closing Guantanamo
Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua... -
Reminder: Live Coverage of U.S. v. Mohammed et al. Next Week
Monday at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week’s worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. When we have the docketing order we'll shar... -
Detainee Challenges Constitutionality of NDAA Transfer Restrictions
Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C. -
D.C. Circuit Issues Stay in Hatim v. Obama
This afternoon, Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Janice Rogers Brown, and Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit filed a per curiam order granting the government’s motion to stay the district court’s July... -
Appellants File Reply Brief in Hatim v. Obama
The government has filed its reply in support of its July motion for a stay pending appeal in Hatim v. Obama. -
Sens. Durbin and Feinstein Don't Address the Toughest Guantanamo Questions
Like David Remes, but with different assumptions and for different reasons, I was disappointed with Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed purporting to offer a plan for closing Guantanamo. As I’ve argue... -
David Remes Responds to the Feinstein/Durbin Op-ed on Closing GTMO
David Remes, the longtime GTMO defense lawyer, wrote in with comments on Senators Feinstein and Durbin’s op-ed in today’s L.A. Times entitled, “How to close Gitmo”: The oped is quite disappointing. In br... -
The Snowden Revelations and Cybersecurity
One immediate consequence of Snowden’s various revelations about massive USG surveillance – at home and especially abroad – was to put a chill on the loud U.S. campaign against Chinese cyber-snooping. (... -
Legitimacy, Legality, and Ben's "Muddled Middle Ground" on FISA
I must confess to being somewhat vexed by Ben's reply this morning to the exchange between Carrie Cordero and me on FISA reform--not for what Ben says, but for why he thinks that leaves him in a "very m... -
Agreeing---Sort Of---with Both Carrie and Steve on FISA
I find myself sympathetic to both Carrie and Steve on FISA oversight. -
Defriending FISA: A Response to Carrie Cordero
The central theme of Carrie's post critiquing proposals for FISA reform appears to be that there are already too many lawyers and too much oversight of how the NSA conducts "foreign intelligence surveill... -
When I'm 64: The Geneva Conventions and the Obama Administration
August 12 is the 64th anniversary of the signing of the Geneva Conventions. As a candidate, Senator Obama was highly critical of the Bush Administration’s non-application of the Geneva Conventions to de...
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