That's the gist of  today's ruling in this terrorism case, which is now pending in the Northern District of Illinois.  The order opens as follows: Defendant Adel Daoud is charged with attempting to use ...

Judging by Daphne Eviatar's account over at Just Security and Charlie Savage's at the New York Times, it was a pretty scripted and brief (nineteen minutes of open session) affair. Thus far, the Periodic...

Today, Abdel Malik Ahmed Abdel Wahab Al Rahabi.

The Supreme Court today decided Air Wisconsin v.

The D.C. Circuit, in an exceedingly brief and quickly-issued per curiam judgment, has affirmed the district court's denial of Obaydullah's motion regarding newly-discovered evidence related to his habeas...

I am a big fan of Peter Bergen. His book, Manhunt, about the search for Osama Bin Laden is one of the most useful and informative and gripping reads on a counterterrorism matter I have come across in a l...

Late last month Marty Lederman flagged the President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies’ endorsement of the Front-Page Rule: That informal precept, long employed by the leader...

Today is the fifth anniversary of President Obama’s executive order directing the closure of Guantanamo within one year. I welcomed the President’s order at the time, but I commented on NPR and elsewher...

The long-running habeas case of

Tomorrow morning at 9:30 a.m., a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral argument in the Guantanamo habeas case of Abdullah v. Obama. Before Circuit Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, and Senior...

The most important judicial opinion to date concerning the U.S. Government’s terrorist watchlisting programs was issued on Tuesday, in the case of Ibrahim v.