As both Wells and Ben noted previously, there are renewed signs of interest in the fate of military detention in Afghanistan, in the form of an NPR story by Quil Lawrence and an order that same day from ...

Raff pointed earlier to a USA Today op-ed by Rep. Mac Thornberry (R-Texas), the Vice Chairman of the House Armed Services committee.

The Associated Press, via Fox News, has another intriguing excerpt from Dan Klaidman's Kill or Capture: The War On Terror And The Soul Of The Obama Presidency.  The book is shaping up to be a must-read f...

I have resisted linking to the latest updates to Bobby, Larkin, and my paper--The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking--because the redesign of the Brookings web site t...

U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest has issued this order clarifying the broad scope of the injunction in her earlier opinion striking down Section 1021 of the NDAA. The order does not rule on the gove...

This morning, National Public Radio ran this story, which Wells linked to earlier, noting that the concern that the United States was recreating Guantanamo at Bagram:

This morning's Supreme Court orders list makes no mention of the unresolved petitions in several Guantanamo-related cases.  That means a re-listing for the justices' conference this Thursday.  Stay tun...

According to the Miami Herald's Carol Rosenberg, only three of the 9/11 defendants weighed in on the question, put to the prosecution by Judge James Pohl, of why the men should not be tried separately. ...

This morning, Paul flagged a Washington Post op-ed by Senators Coats, Rubio and Burr.  The trio's piece concerns the improper revelation of national security secrets.  As one example, the authors cite th...

Let me add to the comments so far on David Sanger’s extensive report in today’s NYT about U.S.-Israeli cyber-attacks against Iran’s nuclear program.  One of the most provocative paragraphs is this one (w...