As the House of Representatives and the Senate head to conference on the NDAA, I thought it might be useful to analyze the similarities and differences between the counterterrorism provisions of the two ...

A redacted version of the cert petition in the case of Hussain Salem Mohammed Almerfedi is now public.

The saga of whether Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al Bahlul's counsel rightly represents him before the D.C. Circuit in his military commissions appeal continues. The government, you'll recall from prior cover...

The 31st Quadrennial Conference of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent closed on Thursday in Geneva with the adoption of a resolution inviting the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)...

Jubair Ahmad, a Pakistani man residing in the United States who created and uploaded an LeT propoganda video at LeT's request, has pled guilty to violating the 1996 material support statute, 18 USC 2339B...

The government has, unsurprisingly, filed a brief in opposition to Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman's cert petition. Uthman, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, had asked the Supreme Court to review this d...

As Raff explains below, there was one amendment to S. 1867's detainee section that made it through: Senator Feinstein's amendment stating that the bill should not be read as favoring or disfavoring an in...

The Senate passed the NDAA (S. 1867) last night on a 93-7 vote. The seven senators who voted against final passage are: Coburn Harkin Lee Merkley Paul Sanders Wyden The bill now moves on to a co...

There was a guilty plea today in United States v. Yusuf (S.D. Cal. Dec.

Senator Feinstein's amendment, which would have limited applicability of the NDAA's detention provisions to terrorism suspects captured abroad, was rejected in a 45-55 vote this afternoon.