I agree entirely with Ken that DOD General Counsel Jeh Johnson’s speech on the end-of-conflict with al Qaeda “makes a serious attempt to grapple with the conditions defining the endgame” and is “a significant articulation of the US government’s view … Read more »
I will offer my own thoughts on the death of Adnan Latif later on, but several people have sent me comments on the subject that I am going to post first. Rather than do this in a string posts, I’m … Read more »
… El Salvador. [I've just changed the title to reflect the fact that other Uighur detainees still remain at GTMO]. From DOD’s press release:
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The Australian newspaper is reporting that three of the Guantanamo Uighurs sent to Palau from Guantanamo have applied for Australian residency permits:
THREE Chinese Uighurs who were for years detained as terrorists at the US’s Guantanamo Bay have applied to
The responses to my “Embrace Guantanamo” post from Sabin Willett, David Remes, and Gabor Rona have a common argumentative thread that strikes me as warranting a response. Not that it’s wrong, exactly, but the reader might … Read more »
Today the D.C. Circuit released, in redacted form, its November order dismissing the government’s appeal in Basardh v. Gates. The brief order contains no reasoning. Basardh was a government appeal from Judge Ellen Huvelle’s March 2009 final judgment and … Read more »
This past week two detainees who lost their habeas merits appeals before the D.C. Circuit filed petitions for certiorari—Ghaleb Nassar Al Bihani and Adham Mohammed Ali Awad.
Broadly speaking, Al Bihani’s challenge involves several arguments about the substantive … Read more »
They say you can’t tell where an appeals panel is headed based on the oral argument. Sometimes you can. I will go out on a limb on the one I attended today: I will eat my computer if the D.C. … Read more »
The D.C. Circuit just released its opinion in Salahi v. Obama, the first Guantánamo merits appeal of this term. The panel of Judges David Sentelle, David Tatel, and Janice Rogers Brown vacated the district court’s opinion granting habeas to … Read more »
Brookings Legal Fellow Larkin Reynolds, who has been working with Bobby and me on a second edition of our monograph on “The Emerging Law of Detention,” recently handed me a chart she had constructed that attempted to quantify … Read more »
It isn’t every day that someone sends me a 5,700 word critique of, well, my own work and asks me to publish it. But today, David Remes, who represents a number of Guantanamo clients, sent me a document entitled “Why … Read more »
It is now well known that the Obama administration has embraced almost all of the Bush administration’s counterterrorism policies without substantial modification. One such policy is military detention without trial. The Obama administration has argued, however, that its legal rationale … Read more »
Peter Margulies, author of Law’s Detour: Justice Displaced in the Bush Administration, who previously offered these comments on S. 3707 and future dangerousness weighs in on the bill’s transfer provisions as well. He largely defends the provision but suggests … Read more »
Ben has previously posted at length (see here for the first installment) regarding the pros and cons of Senator Graham’s bill on detention (see here for the first in the series), and over the weekend Steve Vladeck joined the conversation… Read more »
Thursday, May 23, 2013
Leading the news: President Obama speaks today at the National Defense University on counterterrorism policy. Many are previewing the speech, including John. According to the New York Times’s Charlie Savage and Peter Baker, Obama will announce more stringent targeting criteria for non-battlefield strikes. This approach will govern the use of force against both citizens and non-citizens.
Here are the Washington … Read more »
