It’s on again.  All five accused are present. Opening the day's events are housekeeping matters, as always.  First, since last session, the prosecution has added a new lawyer.  Secondly, one of Walid Bin...

On Wednesday, the Guantánamo detainees appealing the D.C. District Court's refusal to enjoin the government from force-feeding hunger-strikers at the detention camp filed their reply in Aamer v. Obama.

On Monday morning---after a marathon argument in a well publicized net neutrality case---the D.C. Circuit turned to this question, in the case of Hentif v. Obama: whether the appellant timely noted his a...

The issue for tomorrow morning's argument in the D.C. Circuit:  whether Guantanamo detainee Fadel Hussein Saleh Hentif's appeal was filed on time. In a redacted 2011 opinion, the district court had conc...

It was an odd turn of events yesterday at the E. Barrett Prettyman Courthouse.  For a moment, it seemed as if a controversial Guantanamo policy might be rescinded or modified. Friday morning saw a long-...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has published its congressionally-mandated, biannual report on the recidivism of former Guantanamo detainees.

So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order.  It was issued Monday. Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...

Big news from the Department of Defense this morning: two detainees have been transferred from the Guantanamo detention facility to the government of Algeria.

Here is the Chief Prosecutor of the military commissions, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement, which addresses this week's hearings in the United States v.

A few weeks ago, Daniel Klaidman noted in the Daily Beast the existence of a White House memo outlining its proposal to close Guantanamo.