Another bad development in the Daqduq situation (see here if you don't know whom I'm talking about).  According to the AP, Iraqi officials have indicated that the only charge they plan to bring against A...

The volume of sheer, unadulterated nonsense zipping around the internet about the NDAA boggles the mind. There was a time--only a few months ago--when the NDAA detention provisions were the obscure provi...

In our final installment of NDAA transcripts, we bring you the Senate's debate on December 15th on the conference report's detention provisions. Here are some highlights: Senators Carl Levin and John M...

David Cole, writing in the New York Review of Books blog, has this essay on the President's decision not to veto the NDAA. Key passage: the law as amended continues to contain extraordinarily dangerous p...

What an interesting day for the question of how to address cases involving participation in the insurgency in Iraq. Earlier today we learned that Ali Musa Daqduq, the last American military detainee in ...

Oh my.  Ali Mussa Daqduq, a Hezbollah agent held by the U.S. military for many years in Iraq and believed to have been responsible for an episode involving the capture, torture, and murder of a group of ...

You can read the detention-specific portions of the December 14th House debate on the conference report here. Here are some highlights: Congressman Alcee Hastings (D-FL)  presented a strident oppositio...

It may surprise some readers, but I find myself oddly attracted to the Due Process Guarantee Act--which Steve described last night. The bill is cast as a response to the NDAA detention authorization prov...

Well that was fast...

Last week, Nazul Gul and Adel Hassan Amad – both former Guantanamo detainees who were transferred by the United States to their home nations before their habeas petitions were resolved – sought a writ of...

Breaking in Boston: animal rights activists today filed a First Amendment challenge to the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act ("AETA"), which reportedly makes it a "terrorism" crime, among other things, to ...

The House has passed the conference version of the NDAA.  It will go on to the Senate, probably coming up tomorrow (Thursday).  With the White House veto threat lifted, the NDAA likely will be law in ver...