More than 70 U.S. lawmakers signed a bipartisan letter on May 15 urging Secretary of State Antony Blinken to hold Ankara to account for the 2017 assault on American citizens by Turkish security officials....
There is a concerted push to sanitize the records of four of the five Taliban leaders transferred from Guantanamo to Qatar. But before delving into some of the specifics, let us recount the basic...
You know all this, of course, because you’ve been reading these blogs all along. But as my mother used to tell me with her charming smile and melodious voice, repetition is the basis...
Earlier this week, Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) responded...
On Tuesday, the DC Circuit Court affirmed a district court's decision to reject Guantanamo detainee Shawali Khan's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Khan's habeas petition was...
On July 22, a DC Circuit Court panel affirmed a district court's denial of Guantanamo detainee Moath Hamza Ahmed al Alwi's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Government prosecutors i...
Either Congress reasserts itself, or terror-friendly bedlam ensues.
Will Pentagon blunders mean the end of military trials for terrorists?
The Supreme Court ponders the constitutional rights of enemy combatants.
Whether capital military commissions really happen will be decided in November.
The DC Circuit Court recently affirmed a district court's decision to deny Guantanamo detainee Yasein Khasem Mohammad Esmail's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. The circuit...
The DC Circuit Court overturned a District Court's decision to grant Guantanamo detainee Uthman Abdul Rahim Mohammed Uthman's petition for a writ of habeas corpus on Tuesday. In reversi...
In an editorial published yesterday (“A Right Without a Remedy”), the New York Times complained that the D.C. Circuit Court “has dramatically restricted” the Supreme Court...
In an opinion released to the public on Feb. 18, DC District Judge Ricardo Urbina denied Guantanamo detainee Mashour Abdullah Muqbel al Sabri's petition for a writ of habeas corpus. Al Sabri...
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), ha...
In response to the Ghailani verdict, the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) issued the...
On Oct. 7, DC District Judge Reggie Walton's decision denying Guantanamo detainee Toffiq Nasser Awad al Bihani's petition for a writ of habeas corpus was released to the public. Al Biha...
When Ghaleb Nassar al Bihani traveled to Afghanistan to fight alongside al Qaeda and the Taliban, he probably never imagined that he would be captured and his detention would be turned into a leg...
Late last Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to block the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee named Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed to his home country of Algeria. Mohammed claims that he will be tort...
On Tuesday, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals issued a stinging rebuke to a district court that granted a Guantanamo detainee’s habeas petition last year. The detainee in question is...