Brian Foster of Covington & Burling, who represents several Guantanamo detainees, writes in with the following comments on my defense of CIA lawyer Jonathan Fredman---and the case of his former client, A...

See this letter from Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Lietzau, on behalf of Secretary Hagel... At bottom, it seems increasingly clear that there are two very different accounts out there about what...

Last Monday, I flagged Chief Judge Lamberth's important new decision in a Guantánamo habeas case--Barre v. Obama--in which, among other things, he excoriated the government for how long it has taken them...

A good discussion on WHYY’s Radio Times of current goings on at Guantanamo Bay---with Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald, David Frakt of University of Pittsburgh Law School, and me.

Courtesy of The Onion, America's Finest News Source: Ayman Al-Zawahiri Delivers TEDTalk On Changing Face Of Terrorism ATLANTA—Addressing attendees gathered for this week’s TEDxEvolution Conference, al-Q...

Now this is a strange and interesting case.  You may have seen an interesting post recently at Foreign Policy describing a US citizen (and former soldier in the US Army) named Eric Harroun, who appeared ...

Wells blogged previously about the efforts of various media groups and the ACLU to seek mandamus review before the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR), challenging the scope of the protective orde...

Philip Carter and Deborah Pearlstein have posted a thoughtful essay at Foreign Policy that emphasizes the utility of civilian criminal prosecution as a counterterrorism option.  I very much agree with th...

The Ahmed Warsame case (Warsame is the al Shabaab member captured by US forces while attempting to return to Somalia after a period of training with AQAP in Yemen, who was then held for two months in mil...

Ben has already noted that the United States and Afghahnistan struck a deal to resume the process of handing over the remnants of U.S.