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Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.
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In his NDU speech, President Obama asserted that “there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.” As has become fairly t...
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The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...
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Th Washington Post and New York Times report.The three-count criminal complaint---alleging theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communicat...
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Lawfare readers probably already know that we had a few technical difficulties this week that resulted in the site's being intermittently inaccessible for a couple of days. We hope we're past all of that...
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Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al.
It opens:
Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...
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The evidence submitted, it falls to Edward Ryan to argue in support of AE18, the prosecution’s request for a written communications order.
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Defense re-direct of Welsh follows, and---the day having slogged on---we’ll summarize it ever briefly.
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Suspense: will we proceed with the prosecution’s examination of CAPT Welsh? We wait to find out. Prosecutor Edward Ryan has a few housekeeping matters, one having to do with the long pending AE18---the...
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The ELC conch passes to the Abaya-clad Cheryl Bormann, lawyer for Walid Bin Attash. She met our still-testifying witness, CAPT Welsh, in the summer of 2011. Before teleporting back to then, however, de...
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Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling? Nope.
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The prosecutor Robert Swann returns to the podium; our JTF staffer returns to the witness stand, having run his needed errand. Al-Baluchi, the witness says, just told me that in fact, his teeth had shif...
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For those wondering how exactly the FBI acquired authorization to use drones for domestic surveillance, the Washington Post's Craig Whitlock has the answer, through some FAA documents released in respons...
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The commission is called to order. The accused are with us here, save two: Mustafa Al-Hawsawi and Ammar Al-Baluchi. Did the latter two men waive, knowingly and voluntarily, their rights to attend? Afte...
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A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3...
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It is a homecoming of sorts here at Fort Meade. The Manning trial is again on pause; thus your correspondent and scattered press folks have decamped from Burba Cottage and returned to Meade's Smallwood ...
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The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...
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Remember CAPT Thomas Welsh, the Staff Judge Advocate at GTMO? He is our next witness, appears in person, and is questioned by KSM lawyer David Nevin. Welsh had about three months’ experience at the camp...
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Prosecutor Edward Ryan will cross-examine Admiral David Woods, once JTF-GTMO’s commanding officer (whose testimony is relevant, among other things, to the defense’s efforts to dismiss the case on defecti...
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Life is restored to our CCTV screen here at Burba Cottage---thus signaling a return to open proceedings. The accused are back in the courtroom. What about our recent Rule 505(h)? There was no cut in t...