As Ben pointed out yesterday, the Washington Post report about the possibility that non-Afghan detainees held at Parwan will be repatriated to their home countries is significant news. Apart from its imp...

Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch responds to my criticisms of her coverage of the Al Nashiri motions hearing: Benjamin Wittes is correct in concluding that I (and Human Rights Watch) share his desire t...

This story in today's Washington Post won't get the attention it would garner if it dealt with Guantanamo, but put it in the category of Very Important if True.

Jack just flagged the Fourth Circuit's unanimous 39-page opinion throwing out Lebron v.

Opinion here.  Commentary later, hopefully.

Jamshid Muhtorov is under arrest, facing material support charges predicated on the claim that he swore allegiance to an Uzbekistan group known as the Islamic Jihad Union, and that he attempted to travel...

Oh boy.  Former CIA officer John Kiriakou has been arrested and charged with leaking classified to a journalist concerning interrogation at GTMO, including the identity of persons involved in interrogati...

Writing in Salon magazine, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch declares that "fundamental procedural protections afforded defendants in federal courts simply do not exist in military commissions. And with...

The D.C. Circuit has batted back Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the new mail search policy at Guantanamo Bay. A per curiam order by a panel consisting of Judges M...

United States v. Mahamud (D.

Former Guantanamo detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko has also filed a notice of appeal in the D.C. Circuit concerning a December decision by Judge Richard Leon throwing out his civil suit.