The National Security Law Podcast: Everyone Knows It Is Saudi Arabia!

We have much to discuss in the world of national security and law this week, including but not limited to the worst-kept secret in the world. To wit: Doe v. Mattis and the district court ruling enjoining the government from transferring Doe to Saudi Arabia. Wait, what’s that? The identity of the receiving state is a secret? Except that Doe is a Saudi citizen and there are multiple points where the briefing reveals that the plan in question is to send Doe back to Saudi Arabia. Ah, well. We’ve got an extensive discussion of the good and the bad about Judge Chutkan’s ruling on the injunction, functioning also as a preview of the oral argument that will occur this Friday morning. The capture of 9/11-related suspect Mohamed Haydar Zammar: another high-profile captive with European citizenship in SDF custody in Syria, adding to the importance of determining what will become of those detainees for the long term. News of two former Guantanamo detainees who had…

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