In prior posts such as this one, I've noted that the United States eventually will transfer control over the Detention Center in Parwan to Afghan authorities.  The most recent goal for that transfer was ...

Esquire magazine has this lengthy feature on Guantanamo detainee and convicted war criminal Noor Uthman Muhammad. It's a sympathetic account, one that treats Uthman chiefly as a victim. But it contains e...

This is a nice illustration of the fact that in at least some circumstances, the United States simply must use civilian criminal courts if it wants to have its hands on a terrorism-related suspect--not t...

...and guess what? This post is not about any gross factual errors in either of them concerning the legality of detention. Perhaps that's because neither editorial really deals with the legality of deten...

The Washington Post is reporting, in what is hardly a surprise, that we shouldn't expect the United States to give up the Bagram detention facility any time soon: BAGRAM AIRFIELD, Afghanistan — The Unite...

This case may have almost nothing to do with national security law. But it has infuriated me ever since, as a Post editorial writer some years back, I spent a lot of time writing about criminal justice i...

Julian Barnes and Evan Perez have an interesting piece today in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that at least some military officers are increasingly concerned about the lack of a clear option for de...

As Raff notes, the Washington Post has an editorial this week drawing attention to the important case of Ali Mussa Daqduq, the Lebanese Hezbollah commander who entered Iraq to participate in the insurgen...

A grand jury yesterday returned an indictment in the case of Naser Abdo, the guy recently arrested in connection with an alleged bomb plot in relation to Killeen (the same guy who shouted “Major Nidal Ha...

Earlier we posted Ramzi Kassem's criticism of commentary from Ben and Tom Joscelyn concerning the al-Alwi case.  Tom has asked us to share the following response: Ramzi Kassem is bothered by the use of t...

Emerson Begolly pled guilty today, ending what would otherwise likely have been a very interesting First Amendment case involving the constitutionality of charging solicitation based on online incitement...

I was trying to formulate my mixed feelings about the Vance and Doe decisions when I received the following email from a Lawfare reader.