Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman is in trouble. Facing a relatively congenial D.C. Circuit panel for a Guantanamo detainee and represented by counsel who did an excellent job presenting his case, he made no headway. He will be lucky if … Read more »
An interesting debate has broken out among liberals about the possibility of President Obama’s issuing a signing statement on the Guantanamo restrictions. Adam Serwer writes,
There’s a pretty clear ethical dilemma here for liberals. One signing statement doesn’t turn
I have a few thoughts on Dafna Linzer’s story from yesterday, which reported that the President means to push back against congressional efforts to impede trial and transfer of Guantanamo detainees by issuing a signing statement.
Some considerable pushback … Read more »
[Update - I have added a new line at the end of the second paragraph] [Second Update - A new final sentence]
Further to Jack’s post below, I have a pair of observations about Dafna’s important story on the internal … Read more »
Dafna Linzer reports that President Obama’s advisors are urging him to issue a signing statement proclaiming that certain aspects of the defense spending bill that limit his authority to try GTMO detainees in civilian courts are unconstitutional because they infringe … Read more »
Ben beat me to the punch in noting the stories by Dafna Linzer (ProPublica) and Peter Finn and Anne Kornblut (Washington Post) to the effect that the White House will soon announce an executive order creating a new annual review … Read more »
Today in Uthman v. Obama, a habeas merits appeal before the D.C. Circuit, the detainee’s merits brief became available. The government is the appellant in this case, appealing Judge Henry Kennedy’s decision granting Uthman’s petition for habeas corpus. Readers
Dafna Linzer has an amazing story about Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman, an alleged al Qaeda member detained since 2001. Judge Kennedy granted Uthman’s habeas petition in this opinion, filed in April of this year. But Linzer reports that … Read more »
Tuesday, May 21, 2013
William P. Barr (former Attorney General), Jamie S. Gorelick (former Deputy AG), and Kenneth L. Wainstein (former Assistant AG for National Security) have this Times op-ed on the AP subpoena controversy. They write:
While neither we nor the critics know the circumstances behind the prosecutors’ decision to issue this subpoena, we do know from the government’s public disclosures that the prosecutors were right to investigate this leak
