The United States Court of Appeal for the District of Columbia Circuit released its decision Tuesday in the case of Hamdan v. United States, overturning Hamdan's conviction by the Guantanamo military commission. But what does the decision mean?

No matter how much former Vice President Dick Cheney insists that torturing prisoners in secret CIA prisons worked (and Spencer has already laid out t...

Mr. Hamdan's sentence, in the Administration's view, will be not that selected by the military, but whatever the president wants. This position is unjust and unwise.

Four-and-a-half years ago I profiled Hamdan's newly assigned defense lawyer, a JAG lawyer named Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift -- a gift from the magazine gods.

Let's be honest: this case was a joke in the annals of justice and a blotch on America's campaign to prevent future 9/11's.

Hamdan could have been prosecuted in federal court but the government instead decided to make his offenses war crimes. This in legal terms is ex post facto application of the law -- and it is prohibited by the U.S. Constitution.