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Engines of Liberty: How Civil Society Helped Restore Constitutional Rights in the Aftermath of 9/11

This post is the latest installment of our “Monday Reflections” feature, in which a different Just Security editor examines the big stories from the previous week or looks…
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Obama’s Plan Is Not a Guantánamo North

President Obama’s plan to close Guantánamo has seemingly been criticized by all sides of the political spectrum. At a hearing before the House Foreign Affairs Committee this…
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Frank and Candid Conversations About Human Rights in Cuba

Yesterday was an historic day for US-Cuba relations. President Obama and almost 40 members of Congress, including both Republicans and Democrats, traveled to Havana for an unprecedented…
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Justice Garland and National Security Accountability: What’s Missing from the Dueling Guantánamo Accounts

Not surprisingly, folks looking for interesting things to say about Chief Judge (and Supreme Court nominee) Merrick Garland’s jurisprudence during his 19-year tenure on the…
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Charlie Savage on Obama, GTMO and “Our Values”

Over on his blog, Charlie Savage has generously published a very thoughtful response to my post about his New York Times article, with Scott Shane, on the falsity of political…
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Closing Guantánamo: Before You Accuse Congress, Take a Look at Your Administration

Five years ago today, President Obama issued Executive Order 13567, which established the Periodic Review Board (PRB) process to review every “forever” detainee in Guantánamo…
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Excellent summary of GTMO myths . . . and a classic case of the “false equivalence fallacy”

A while back I wrote here about how remarkably successful President Obama’s efforts have been to fundamentally transform, to the point of elimination, the U.S. practice of…
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Torture and Transparency in the Military Commissions

America’s war court is back in session at Guantánamo, with yet more pretrial proceedings in the case of the five 9/11 defendants (alleged mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed,…
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The President’s Plan for Closing the Guantánamo Bay Detention Facility

It’s here. The President proposes that once current transfer efforts are completed this year, the remaining 30 to 60 GTMO detainees ought to be detained in a U.S. facility. This…
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Closing Guantánamo, Episode XXVIII: This Time, We Really, Really (Really!) Mean It…

Word has it that, later today, the Obama administration will release its long-ballyhooed Plan. To. Close. Guantánamo. (Not to be confused, mind you, with the original plan from…
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D.C. Circuit Quietly Set to Hear Major National Security Appeals

Given the rather significant legal news of the past four days, it’s easy to forget that a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit (Tatel, Griffith, & Sentelle, JJ.) is…
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When Did the War With al-Qaeda Start?

On Wednesday, the DC Circuit is scheduled to hear oral arguments on a request to halt the military commission prosecution of Guantánamo detainee Abd al-Rahim Hussein al-Nashiri.…
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