Ben's two questions in response to my post yesterday on the D.C.

Steve is quite right that yesterday's decision in Al Zahrani is no surprise.

Given Ben's report on the oral argument, today's fairly cryptic D.C. Circuit opinion in al-Zahrani v. Rodriguez, throwing out a damages suit arising out of the deaths of several inmates at Guantanamo, is...

In his NYT column today, Bill Keller argues that Wikileaks “was a hell of a story and a wild collaboration, but it did not herald, as the documentarians yearn to believe, some new digital age of transpar...

Friday afternoon, the Obama Administration filed a cert. petition in Clapper v.

When I was younger, I didn’t like to eat my peas.  So I always put them off for last, but eventually, I’d realize that it was something I had to do and … just do it. I feel a little like that in writing...

The complaint against Amine El Khalifi is posted here.  What follows is the description from DOJ’s press release: WASHINGTON – A 29 year-old man residing in Alexandria, Va., was arrested today for all...

Over at the Document Exploitation blog, Douglas Cox of the CUNY Law School has this very interesting post on redactions in the Alsabri Guantanamo habeas case--which was decided at the District Court leve...

NPR had a story today concerning the process of selecting between civilian and military commission prosecution options.  It's an important topic.  Unfortunately, the story included the following mistaken...

Very interesting Washington Post article on this sentencing memorandum filed by the Justice Department in the Abdulmutallab case.

I have only flipped through the House Armed Services subcommittee report entitled, "Leaving Guantanamo: Policies, Pressures, and Detainees Returning to the Fight," and I find I have little to say about it.