Well that sure didn't take long [h/t: emptywheel].

An attorney who was deeply involved in the Al Bihani litigation sent me the following note about my post on the Hedges decision:

There are a lot of questions one could ask about yesterday’s order in Hedges, to put it mildly.  I’ll limit myself to this one: exactly what is the scope of Judge Forrest’s permanent injunction?  (Steve ...

I don't have a lot to add to Ben's analysis of Judge Forrest's decision yesterday in Hedges v.

I have now read through Judge Forrest's opinion in Hedges---all 112 pages of it. I have done so only briskly, and I have surely missed things in my haste. But here are some initial thoughts. The opinion...

I have spent a lot of time publishing other people's statements on the death of Adnan Latif over the past couple of days and have refrained from expressing my own views---in part because I have been gath...

I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m going ...

I haven't read it yet, but here it is.

I have largely suspended my campaign of fact-checking New York Times editorials, but this one is too good to pass up. In his opinion the other day on counsel access issues at Guantanamo, Judge Royce Lamb...

The State Department has announced that it will, at long last, designate the Haqqani Network as a Foreign Terrorist Organization.  Apart from the rhetorical value of the designation, the main consequence...

Chief Judge Royce Lamberth's order is here.

Speaking of reports I haven’t yet read, the Open Society Foundations has just released a report entitled “Remaking Bagram: The Creation of an Afghan Internment Regime and the Divide Over U.S. Detention P...