Judge David Sentelle wrote today's majority opinion in this long-running habeas case, in which Mukhtar Yahia Naji Al Warafi had claimed (among other things) that even if he was a Taliban member, he serve...

The President's speech was a dog's breakfast: some good parts, some bad parts, and some ugly parts. The Good.   The most significant part of the speech was the President's description of clearer standar...

President Obama made two important announcements about aspects of Guantanamo and its detainees in his speech today. These are worth flagging before I pivot and harp on the big problem with the President'...

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...