In his speech today, President Obama explicitly raised this perennial, maddeningly difficult issue.

Watch President Obama's speech at National Defense University below:

Before it gets lost in the coverage of this afternoon's speech by the President, I wanted to flag a very important development in the ongoing saga that is the Bradley Manning court-martial.

In his speech this afternoon, the President is expected to announce a renewed effort to close Guantanamo.   This will require hard work, both with Congress and with other countries.   When the President ...

Today, counsel for Saeed Mohammed Hatim filed an "Emergency Motion Concerning Access to Counsel," both in the Yemeni detainee's recently reactivated habeas action, and in In Re: Guantanamo Bay Detainee C...

In advance of the President's speech tomorrow, the Attorney General has just sent this letter to Senator Leahy, Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, describing the Administration's legal basis for...

The press scandals keep on coming for the Obama Administration.

Today we will appear before the House Judiciary Committee, and will argue that Congress should put to rest the question of military detention for domestic captures.  More specifically, we will argue that...

An administration national security official writes in with the following thoughts on the furor over the warrant application against James Rosen of Fox News: There is a great deal of hyperventilation---m...

Ben and Bobby will be testifying in front of the House Judiciary Committee on "Protecting U.S. Citizens' Constitutional Rights During the War on Terror" at 10 am tomorrow at 2141 Rayburn House Office Bui...

On Thursday, President Obama will be giving a major address on national security and counterterrorism, styled as a companion to the 2009 National Archives address.  That 2009 speech adopted a pragmatic a...