Josh Gerstein at the Politico beat me to the punch with a point I have been meaning to make since looking at the Seventh Circuit's Vance decision yesterday: The viability of civil cases against former of...

Professor Ramzi Kassem of CUNY Law, who serves as counsel for GTMO detainee Moath al-Alwi, takes issue with an earlier post on this blog concerning the al-Alwi case.  He has asked us to share the followi...

Only days after a U.S. District Court in Washington allowed to proceed a suit by a U.S. citizen who alleged that he had been detained and tortured by U.S. forces in Iraq, the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals...

As you may recall, federal prosecutors in July charged Emerson Begolly with offenses including (i) solicitation based on online posts encouraging readers to attack Americans and (ii) the provision of ins...

U.S. involvement in Mexico's struggle against violent drug-trafficking organizations has deepened recently, according to Ginger Thompson's piece in the New York Times today: When violence spiked last yea...

Josh Gerstein of Politico is reporting: The Justice Department is warning a federal appeals court not to disclose classified information about the National Security Agency's domestic surveillance program...

Here is the July 29 opinion in which Judge Brinkema explains why NYT reporter James Risen will not have to testify, in the Jeffrey Sterling leak prosecution, about whether Sterling was Risen’s source for...

I have only had a chance to skim this lengthy opinion by U.S. District Judge James Gwin allowing a suit against Don Rumsfeld and others to proceed  on some counts. But it appears to allege quite remarkab...

Over at the Long War Journal, Thomas Joscelyn--with whom Bobby and I have lately been sparring on Guantanamo transfers--has an interesting piece on the D.C. Circuit's recent decision in Al Alwi.

Josh Gerstein at the Politico is reporting: The Obama administration is invoking the state secrets privilege to seek dismissal of part of a lawsuit brought by Muslims who claim that the FBI conducted swe...

Yesterday's government win before Judge Kennedy and the D.C. Circuit's recent opinion in Al Alwi require an update to the habeas numbers, which are now as follows: Uighur cases in which detention was dee...

U.S. District Judge Henry Kennedy has denied the habeas corpus petition of Guantanamo detainee Fadhel Hussein Saleh Hentif (ISN 259). There is no unclassified opinion yet. We will post it as soon as it b...