What’s a habeas petitioner to do, if 1) current and former U.S. military officials believe that he no longer poses a significant threat, and that his law of war detention is no longer necessary; but 2) a Periodic Review Board … Read more »
Ben’s two questions in response to my post yesterday on the D.C. Circuit’s decision in al-Zahrani are both right on the money, but I think they both have answers–and take a shot below the fold.
Sabin Willett, who represented the Guantanamo Uighurs in Parhat and Kiyemba, writes in with the following comments about Latif:
It is not hyperventilation to say, as so many have said, that Latif guts Boumediene, because — trust
Habeas lawyer David Remes just sent in the following:
Whatever their significance may be in other respects, the Wikileaks documents have little significance for the detainees still at Guantanamo, because few if any of them will be transferred in the
If a person can’t be troubled to agree with me, the very least he can do is to write good prose. Man, oh man, can Sabin Willett write good prose! Willett, who represented the Uighurs in their Supreme Court case, … Read more »
The other day, I expressed bewilderment at the intellectual convergence between the political Left and Judge Laurence Silberman over whether post-Boumediene litigation has left habeas an empty shell. I’ve been mostly out of pocket for the last two days, … Read more »
Today counsel for the five Kiyemba v. Obama petitioners who are seeking cert. in the Supreme Court submitted a supplemental brief to augment some of the arguments they made in their petition and reply brief. I’ve previously explained the … Read more »
The D.C. Circuit’s per curiam opinion today in Esmail is unremarkable–exactly what one would have suspected from the oral argument. Judge Laurence Silberman’s concurrence, by contrast, is altogether remarkable. At only two pages in the slip opinion, it packs … Read more »
Friday, May 17, 2013
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General released an interim report on the Department’s handling of “known or suspected” terrorists who have entered the government’s witness protection program. The report found, among other things, that information on some program participants had not been turned over to no-fly list authorities; and, that two such people could not be located—though one… Read more »
