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Four New Guantánamo Transfers–and the Remaining Detainees
Via the Department of Defense and the inestimable Carol Rosenberg comes word of four new detainee transfers this morning–of Afghan detainees Shawali Khan, Khi Ali Gul, Abdul…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (Dec 13-19)
I. Torture A. Senate Intelligence Committee Torture Report David Luban, Why Do We Talk About Torture the Way We Do? (Monday, Dec. 15) Margo Schlanger, Guest Post: Intelligence…
Seriously?
At this late date, this surely doesn’t warrant (or deserve) a detailed response, especially since the President has repudiated it and it no longer represents the view of…
Why We Shouldn’t Prosecute the Torturers
Count me as one of those who believes not only that the United States engaged in a systematic, widespread, and officially sanctioned campaign of coercively interrogating terrorism…
The SSCI Torture Report, Rasul, and Transfers to Avoid Jurisdiction
[Update: 12/9, 4:30 p.m.: I missed this in my first run through the SSCI Torture Report, but on page 151, the report explains that “[in early 2005], the U.S. solicitor…
Recap of Recent Posts at Just Security (Nov 22-Dec 5)
I. Torture A. Senate Intelligence Committee Torture Report John Reed, The Senate Torture Report Should Name Victims (Wednesday, Dec. 3) Marty Lederman, Executive summary and conclusions…
The Torture Convention & Appendix M of the Army Field Manual on Interrogations
We are on the eve of the release of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence’s report on the Central Intelligence Agency’s interrogation program. Although this report will…
Revisiting Torture: Implications of Overturning Ireland v. United Kingdom
One of the seminal international decisions on torture, inhuman and degrading treatment, the Ireland v United Kingdom case decided by the European Court of Human Rights in 1978,…
The 2015 National Defense Authorization Act: A Silver Lining for Guantanamo Detainees
Yesterday afternoon the House approved the Senate and House-agreed upon version of the National Defense Authorization Act for 2015, with two noteworthy consequences for Guantanamo…
Executive summary and conclusions of SSCI torture report to be released next Monday [UPDATED — or Tuesday]
So says Jason Leopold, relating what a DOJ lawyer has told him in connection with his FOIA lawsuit. [UPDATE: I’m now hearing from several sources that the release —…
al-Nashiri mandamus petition: Government response and oral argument date
The government today filed its opposition to al-Nashiri’s mandamus petition in which he is asking the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to enjoin the participation…
The merits of the judge-disqualification petition in al-Nashiri
As I noted in an earlier post, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. circuit (CTADC) has stayed the Court of Military Commission Review (CMCR) proceedings in the interlocutory…