Craig Whitlock has a very interesting piece in the Washington Post today, the main thrust of which is to describe the military's efforts to establish aerial surveillance capacity across wide swaths of Af...

[Update: Ben Weiser's coverage in the Times points out that real benefit of the plea for Ahmed of course was to avoid the firearms charge, which entailed a thirty year minimum.  Ben also confirms that Ju...

I have not linked to the reviews of my book Power and Constraint as they have appeared, but by now there are enough reviews – by Gary Schmitt in the Weekly Standard, Christopher Caldwell in the NYT, Roge...

Steve's mention earlier that he was positively soft on the D.C. Circuit compared to the Times reminded me that we haven't seen any sign yet of the inevitable editorial bashing the justices for failing to...

A few final thoughts on the topic of DC Circuit fidelity to Hamdi and Boumediene, for the three people still paying attention to us (hi Mom!).

At the risk of boring readers who have long-since grown tired of this exchange, let me just offer three quick responses to Bobby's thoughtful intervention in the back-and-forth between Ben and me on whet...

Steve's post on Garcia and Munaf got me thinking about seepage.  Remember this? It is the idea that seemingly fact-bound national security cases can announce rules of more general applicability - ones th...

Steve and Ben are having an interesting exchange about an important question: whether the DC Circuit's caselaw in GTMO habeas proceedings has produced a set of substantive and procedural rules at varianc...

Tahawwur Hussain Rana was convicted of providing support to Lashkar e-Taiba (18 USC 2339B) and conspiring to provide support to a group planning to commit murder in Denmark, but was acquitted of conspiri...

Yesterday's news out of the Supreme Court may well have obscured another significant detainee-related legal development: As Lyle Denniston has noted over at SCOTUSblog, on Friday, the en banc Ninth Circu...

Ben asks: "What are the specific 'requirements' the Supreme Court laid out in Boumediene or Hamdi that the D.C. Circuit has refused to honor such that habeas review is not 'meaningful' within the meaning...

I almost wrote into my post earlier today that while I agreed with Steve's point that Boumediene remained consequential, I suspected he would not agree with the one I was making. I refrained, but it turn...