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24 Mar 2017, 9:35 am by Lyle Denniston
” The mistreatment did not stop, his lawyers have said, after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 (he has remained there since). [read post]
24 Mar 2017, 9:35 am by Lyle Denniston
” The mistreatment did not stop, his lawyers have said, after he was transferred to Guantanamo Bay in 2006 (he has remained there since). [read post]
20 Mar 2017, 5:00 am by Cody M. Poplin
And Carol Rosenberg, the Dean of the Guantanamo Bay press corps is tweeting live updates. [read post]
18 Mar 2017, 5:42 am by Jordan Brunner
Paul Lewis provided advice to the Trump administration on the continuing need to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. [read post]
15 Mar 2017, 11:33 am by Jordan Brunner
The Washington Post informs us that the Justice Department has issued indictments for two Russian FSB officers and two criminal hackers for the theft of 500 million Yahoo user accounts in 2014. [read post]
14 Mar 2017, 5:10 am by Paul Lewis
On Sunday, John Bellinger forcefully summarized the main arguments for closing the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 1:07 pm by Steve Vladeck
But don’t take my word for it; at the end of that same critical month (December 2001), Patrick Philbin and John Yoo wrote a memo for the Office of Legal Counsel that specifically advised the Department of Defense “that the great weight of legal authority indicates that a federal district court could not properly exercise habeas jurisdiction over an alien detained at [Guantánamo Bay]. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 1:07 pm by Steve Vladeck
But don’t take my word for it; at the end of that same critical month (December 2001), Patrick Philbin and John Yoo wrote a memo for the Office of Legal Counsel that specifically advised the Department of Defense “that the great weight of legal authority indicates that a federal district court could not properly exercise habeas jurisdiction over an alien detained at [Guantánamo Bay]. [read post]
13 Mar 2017, 10:45 am by Jordan Brunner
The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking into loosening Obama-era constraints intended to prevent civilian deaths from counterterrorism missions outside conventional war zones. [read post]
12 Mar 2017, 2:01 pm by John Bellinger
  Why Guantanamo Bay Was Opened The Guantanamo Bay detention facility was not a political initiative of the Bush White House. [read post]
10 Mar 2017, 10:21 am by Jordan Brunner
The Post writes that Attorney General Jeff Sessions said yesterday that he favors bringing new terrorism suspects to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba and trying them by military commission rather than in federal courts. [read post]
9 Mar 2017, 4:36 pm by Benson Varghese
Interestingly, county jails and federal prisons are cooled, including the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
8 Mar 2017, 10:37 am by Jordan Brunner
The Hill notes that the Office of the Director of National Intelligence released updated figures on former Guantanamo Bay detainees suspected or confirmed of reengaging in terrorism yesterday, showing a small shift since September. [read post]
4 Mar 2017, 4:34 am by Benjamin Wittes
The Russian Connection continued to generate attention on the Trump administration this week when it emerged that Attorney General Jeff Sessions neglected to tell Congress that he had met with Russian ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak, a familiar figure from the Flynn imbroglio, twice during the campaign. [read post]
27 Feb 2017, 9:27 am by Rishabh Bhandari
Quinta Jurecic posted the latest episode of the Lawfare Podcast, in which Ben Wittes interviewed Paul Lewis, President Barack Obama’s special envoy at the Defense Department for closing down the detention facilities at Guantanamo Bay. [read post]
25 Feb 2017, 10:30 am by Quinta Jurecic
Under the oversight of Paul Lewis, the Department of Defense’s Special Envoy for Guantanamo Closure under the Obama administration, the detainee population at Guantanamo Bay went from 164 to 41. [read post]
25 Feb 2017, 7:00 am by Jordan Brunner
Russell Spivak provided background on Jamal al-Harith, the ISIS suicide bomber who had been repatriated from Guantanamo Bay prison. [read post]
24 Feb 2017, 6:00 am by Russell Spivak
 Second, al-Harith was detained by the United States at the Guantanamo Bay prison from 2002 until 2004. [read post]
23 Feb 2017, 9:59 am by Jordan Brunner
Buzzfeed tells us that a federal judge ruled this week that President Obama’s declarations that the U.S. combat mission in Afghanistan had been completed do not affect the U.S. government’s right to hold prisoners at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. [read post]
21 Feb 2017, 10:41 am by Jordan Brunner
Foreign Policy writes that it has independently confirmed that Trump is finalizing an executive order to keep Guantanamo Bay open. [read post]