It is somewhat old news, though refreshed a bit in light of yesterday's Ali decision from the D.C. Circuit: on November 19, lawyers for another Guantanamo detainee, Abdul al Qader Ahmed Hussain, asked th...

Both Raffaela and Steve have already noted the D.C. Circuit's opinion yesterday in Abdul Razak Ali v. Obama, the latest Guantanamo habeas case.

As Steve already noted, the D.C. Circuit has affirmed the district court's denial of a writ of habeas corpus to Guantanamo detainee Abdul Razak Ali. We covered the oral argument this fall, in preview and...

This morning's D.C. Circuit decision in Ali v. Obama is not exactly a shocker, given the court's ever-solidifying body of jurisprudence on the scope of the government's power to detain non-citizen terror...

The National Security Agency is down in the dumps. It’s used to being heralded for brilliance.

From the defense's standpoint, which are more onerous: restrictions on lawyers in civilian terrorism cases or restrictions used in military commissions? Accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev ...

The Washington Post reported last week that the United States government had decided not to prosecute Julian Assange for his role in the massive release of classified State Department cables because “gov...

Americans vacillate over national security and government power. We want an effective intelligence community, but we do not want too much surveillance or collection. We want to rein in the NSA, but we al...

Three updates in Aamer v. Obama, the force-feeding case on appeal to the D.C. Circuit. On November 14, the government filed its opposition to Guantanamo detainee Imad Abdullah Hassan’s motion to interve...

About a month ago, I asked what had happened to the UN’s effort to develop a set of standard operating procedures to govern detentions that arise during the course of UN operations.  It appears that such...