...that every non-government employee in the world can discuss what the Wikileaked documents say about Guantanamo detainees except their own habeas counsel--who remain gagged as a consequence of their ob...

Habeas lawyer David Remes just sent in the following: Whatever their significance may be in other respects, the Wikileaks documents have little significance for the detainees still at Guantanamo, because...

National Public Radio has added its voice to that of the New York Times on the new Wikileaked Guantanamo files. NPR actually has a few stories, along with this database--done in conjunction with the Times.

Here is the statement by Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell and Ambassador Dan Fried, Special Envoy for Closure of the Guantanamo Detention Facility in response to the New York Times story to which I just ...

I can't fathom right now who should be most upset--the government or the detainee bar--by this story in the New York Times: WASHINGTON — A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides ne...

If a person can't be troubled to agree with me, the very least he can do is to write good prose. Man, oh man, can Sabin Willett write good prose! Willett, who represented the Uighurs in their Supreme Cou...

News that charges have been re-sworn against al-Nashiri in the military commission system has prompted commentary regarding which Title 18 offenses could have been brought had he been charged instead in ...

The other day, I expressed bewilderment at the intellectual convergence between the political Left and Judge Laurence Silberman over whether post-Boumediene litigation has left habeas an empty shell.

One GTMO-related case—Khadr v. Obama (No. 10-751) remains pending before the Supreme Court at the certiorari stage, and it has just been re-listed for the first time (Kiyemba, in which the Court just den...

Today the Supreme Court denied cert. to the five Uighur detainees held at Guantanamo.

Two quick comments on today's New York Times editorial: First, the Times begins with a remarkable normative assertion: "In bringing justice to those accused of plotting the Sept.