Anthony Clark Arend

The previous post noted the brief filed by the Obama Administration appealing the ruling of Judge John D. Bates in the Bagram detainee cases. With many thanks to SCOTUSblog, the brief can be found here. As Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog explains:
The Obama Administration argued strenuously on Monday that the Supreme Court’s 2008 decision providing a right for imprisoned terrorism suspects …

The AP is reporting this evening:
The Obama administration argued late Monday that allowing terrorism detainees in Afghanistan to file lawsuits in U.S. courts challenging their detention would endanger the military mission in that country.Although the Pentagon is giving the roughly 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield a new chance to challenge their detentions, the Obama administration stuck with Bush administration policy …

In case you missed this. the Washington Post reports:
A federal appeals court rejected a lawsuit Friday against CACI International that accused the firm’s employees of taking part in the torture and abuse of prisoners at the Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq.
In a 2 to 1 ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit dismissed the case …

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International Law and the Proliferation of Weapons of Mass
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In today’s Washington Post, Professor Loch Johnson, former special assistant to the late Senator Frank Church, reminds us previous efforts to investigate allegations of wrong-doing in the intelligence community. Dr. Johnson writes:
During the first half of the Cold War, the CIA was largely free of serious congressional supervision. And despite controversies such as the U2 shoot-down over the Soviet Union, …

Numerous previous posts have discussed the possibility of civil suits against individuals involved in the detention and treatment of detainees. The BBC is reporting about a suit planned by Mohammed Jawad:
Mohammed Jawad was released and arrived in his native Afghanistan earlier this week. His family says he was 12 at the time of his detention in 2002.
He was in custody …

The long-awaited CIA Inspector General’s 2004 report on detention and interrogation was released today. The report can be found in pdf form here. I am still trying to  make my way through the report. In the meantime, Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane in the New York Times observe:
Although large portions of the 109-page report are blacked out, it gives new …

A previous post reported on the recommendations by the Special Task Force. The press release issued by the Justice Department follows. (HT: Bobby Chesney)
Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies Issues Its Recommendations to the President
Attorney General Eric Holder today announced that the Special Task Force on Interrogations and Transfer Policies, which was created pursuant to Executive Order …