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From Reuters:
One Republican lawmaker said public opposition would escalate sharply if and when the administration formally notified Congress it intends to transfer the prisoners, who come from the highe...
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The government has filed its answer to Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's petition for a writ of mandamus concerning monitoring of attorney-client communications at Guantanamo. Al Hawsawi's motion for a prelimin...
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The US government is considering transferring a group of five Taliban detainees from GTMO to Qatar (to be held there by Qatari authorities) in furtherance of peace negotiations in relation to Afghanistan...
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Well, that didn't take long. The government only submitted its opposition to Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari's petition for en banc review on January 19. But the D.C. Circuit today denied the petition. A...
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No big surprise here: The D.C. Circuit has affirmed the judgment of the District Court in upholding the detention of Guantanamo detainee Abdul-Rahman Abdo Abulghaith Suleiman's appeal.
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The government has filed its opposition to cert in the case of Al Madhwani v. Obama--a Guantanamo habeas case. Al Madhwani's cert petition seeks review of this DC Circuit opinion affirming his detention.
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My earlier post prompted the following reply from Cully Stimson, whom I thank for sending such a thoughtful response, and which I think it only fair to post in its entirety:
My friend Steve Vladeck takes...
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Further to the ongoing exchange (begun on Salon and continued on this blog here and here) between Laura Pitter from Human Rights Watch and Ben on the fairness vel non of the al-Nashiri military commissio...
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I don't normally agree on detention policy matters with Seton Hall's Mark Denbeaux--and there's certainly some rhetoric in this piece in Jurist that I would never use and conclusions I do not reach. That...
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As Jack and Steve have both noted, yesterday the Fourth Circuit issued its opinion in Lebron v. Rumsfeld, the appeal seeking reversal of a district court's decision denying Jose Padilla declaratory and e...
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As Ben pointed out yesterday, the Washington Post report about the possibility that non-Afghan detainees held at Parwan will be repatriated to their home countries is significant news. Apart from its imp...
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Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch responds to my criticisms of her coverage of the Al Nashiri motions hearing:
Benjamin Wittes is correct in concluding that I (and Human Rights Watch) share his desire t...
