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Interesting Charlie Savage story this morning about a newly released FBI document detailing rules for inclusion of terrorist suspects on watch lists. Of particular interest to Savage is the fact that tho...

This past Sunday, police in Birmingham, England, made a series of arrests in connection with a "homegrown-but-trained-abroad" terrorism plot.  Irfan Nasser and Irfan Khalid allegedly traveled to Pakistan...

I have written previously about the pros and cons of the military commission option for Ali Mussa Daqduq, a member of Hezbollah whom we have been holding in military custody in Iraq for some period based...

An update on the Suleiman case: on Friday, the government filed this letter, which sought to clarify the government's views of three issues that were raised at oral argument on September 16. First and m...

Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, a Guantanamo habeas petitioner, has filed a cert petition, asking the Supreme Court to review the D.C. Circuit's March decision in his case. The cert petition presents...

It comes in the case of Abdah and is available here, posing the following question: Whether, in a habeas corpus action, a Guantánamo detainee has a right to challenge his transfer to a foreign country on...

Yesterday, the Fourth Circuit announced decisions in Al Shimari v. CACI International and Al-Quraishi v. L-3 Services, Inc. Both cases involved tort suits brought by Iraqi civilians against U.S. military...

I promised last week to give some thoughts on Judge Henry Kennedy's recent opinion in Hentif as soon as I had a chance to read it. I was busy running some events over the past few days and only just got ...

A divided 11th Circuit panel has issued a lengthy opinion (112 pages in pdf, with the dissent) affirming the conviction of  Jose Padilla, Adham Hassoun, and Kifah Jayyousi, and granting the government's ...

Friday afternoon’s oral argument in Suleiman saw pretty even questioning of counsel for both sides from an interested panel.  Judges Merrick Garland, Thomas Griffith and David Tatel pressed Abdulrahman A...

I have little to add to Jack's excellent post yesterday about Charlie Savage's fascinating New York Times story on the latest dispute within the administration on the scope and reach of the AUMF. But I d...