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Our marching orders adjusted for technical reasons, we turn to AE13GG---a dispute over the protective order, and the confidentiality of reports belonging to the International Committee for the Red Cross ...
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I am participating today and tomorrow at a seminar at Roger Williams University Law School, entitled Cyber Threats and Cyber Realities. It is being hosted by our Lawfare guest contributor Peter Marguile...
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As Ben already noted, the Miami Herald’s Carol Rosenberg has released a GTMO Detainee Task Force document acquired through a Freedom of Information Act request. It includes a roster dated January 2010 li...
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The screen image is grainy here at Burba, but we nevertheless discern what has now become a quite familiar picture: we see the military judge, as always resplendent in his judicial robes, ascending the b...
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Dew glistens on the lawn just outside Fort Meade’s Burba Cottage----our usual haunt, Smallwood Hall, being unavailable on account of the ongoing Bradley Manning trial. Lawfare is in the house for a seco...
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There is a subtle connection between the unfolding NSA metadata controversy and the controversy that has long plagued the administration's position on drone strikes, involving the impact of transparency ...
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The Miami Herald has obtained under the Freedom of Information Act the list of dispositions for Guantanamo detainees from the Obama administration's Guantanamo task force.
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The Unsurprisingly Abaya-ed Cheryl Bormann’s logistical issues go unaddressed, despite our ongoing “recess in place.” Non-resolution of her complaint gives the military judge an idea: David Nevin will a...
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Next to explore Admiral Bruce MacDonald’s actions during the pre-referral phase is James Harrington. He’s a lawyer for Ramzi bin Al Shibh.
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Earlier, our lunch interrupted live video testimony by Admiral Bruce MacDonald, until recently the commissions’ Convening Authority. But now lunch is done, and the defense’s questioning presses forward.
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Our recess ends and, after some brief discussion of logistics, Ruiz’s examination ekes forward.
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Last week I noted that Ayman al Zawahiri, head of AQ, issued a statement directing that AQI and al Nusrah remain separate entities within the AQ system, and I pointed out various questions this raised fr...
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Now joining us by video teleconference (VTC) is retired Rear Adm. Bruce MacDonald, who was the military commissions’ Convening Authority from March 2010 until his appointment expired in March 2013. Toda...
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As John noted over the weekend, Clifford Sloan has been selected as the Department of State's envoy for closing the GTMO detention center.
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It’s go time at the Expeditionary Legal Complex. Judge Pohl ascends the bench and calls our proceedings to order; all five accused are present, along with their attorneys. There’s a new addition to Ram...
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The Fort Meade CCTV screen comes to life, as your correspondents return for another week of pre-trial proceedings in United States v. Mohammed et al. Look for posts in our Event Coverage section; we'll ...
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Last Friday the government filed this brief in CA2 in the NYT’s and ACLU’s appeal in the case involving FOIA requests on targeted killing.
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As Ben noted on the day of President Obama’s big counterterrorism speech last month, one of the speech’s most notable elements was President Obama’s strong reaffirmation of the utility of military commis...
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Ask and you shall receive...
No sooner had I observed on Friday that the President had still not named the two senior envoys at the State and Defense Departments to help with Guantanamo transfers than t...
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Tomorrow at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week's worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.
The docketing order for our five-day session can ...