Jonathan Hafetz

At Guantanamo Bay, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four co-conspirators will be arraigned Saturday before a military commission for their role in the 9/11 attacks. In Brooklyn, Adis Medunjanin awaits sentencing following this week's guilty verdict in his federal trial for plotting to blow up New York City subways. The two...

Court-martial proceedings are moving forward at Fort Meade, Maryland, in the case of Pfc. Bradley Manning, the suspected whistleblower accused of leaking classified government documents to Wikileaks. Although the Manning court-martial ranks among the most important national security prosecutions in recent memory, it is being litigated largely outside the public...

The recent attacks on lawyers who have worked on behalf of Guantánamo detainees have employed the tactic of the "Big Lie"—that is, a lie so colossal that people will believe it because no one could possibly have the impudence to distort the truth so grossly.

The Big Lie here is...

Co-written by Jonathan Hafetz and Mark Denbeaux.

President Obama's planned transfer of some Guantánamo Bay detainees to Thomson, Illinois, might bring the administration nearer to its goal of closing the infamous off-shore prison. But, from all indications, it will do little to end the unlawful detention system Guantánamo embodies.

Last week's New York Times story about two secret Justice Department legal opinions on CIA interrogation techniques leaves no room for doubt. We are in the midst of a full-fledged scandal involving illegality and deceit at the highest levels of the United States government. Call it Torturegate.

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The United States this week released the transcript of the military hearing for self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. Initial accounts in the New York Times and Washington Post described the "confession of a top leader" and detailed Mr. Mohammed's participation in a laundry list of terrorist...

Last week, a district judge in Washington dismissed the case of Guantanamo Bay detainee Salim Hamdan. In June, Hamdan won a landmark Supreme Court decision striking down President's jerry-rigged system of military trials at Guantanamo. Now, thanks to a new law stampeded through Congress in October, Hamdan...