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Col. Sterling Thomas, counsel for al-Baluchi, calls our next witness: Ms. Robin Maher, a law professor and (most relevantly) Director of the ABA Death Penalty Representation Project.
Thomas inquires abo...
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My colleague at Brookings, Daniel Byman, and I have written a lengthy paper on the different tools the United States uses in going after citizens abroad believed to have allied themselves with the enemy....
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Up next at the witness chair Ms. Robin Maher.
Wait---that's not quite true. First, we have a sidebar about the Convening Authority, Bruce MacDonald. His testimony is set for tomorrow, on AE08 and AE31...
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Back from lunch. Col. Bogdan is still on the stand. Edward Ryan, a Justice Department lawyer, speaks for the prosecution. His questioning makes very clear: Bogdan has never recorded attorney-client vis...
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Our next witness is Army Col. John Bogdan, a military police officer and the joint detention group commander at GTMO since June 2012. Nevin questions him. Bogdan catalogs three types of visits with th...
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There’s much out there, naturally, on the President’s State of the Union address---but we got to have a little excitement of our own in the national security world, as Raffaela laid out last night.
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Senator Feinstein issued the following press release today:
The administration has publicly described—including now in an unclassified white paper—the legality and boundaries of targeted killing of terro...
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For those who will be in DC on the 27th, I highly recommend this event. Detailed agenda below the jump:
The Journal of National Security Law & Policy and
The Georgetown Center on National Security and t...
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It is now available on the SSCI website.
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The fated hour arrives; the gavel bangs; the judicial authority almost emanates. The commission once more is called to order. Both sides are present, lawyer-wise, with a few individual lawyers absent. ...
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It is a chilly morning here at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, venue for Lawfare's coverage of almost-live, CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo hearings. This marks the third day of this week's four-day motio...
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An important Lawfare-related sentence from last night’s SOTU address:
[I]n the months ahead, I will continue to engage with Congress to ensure not only that our targeting, detention, and prosecution of t...
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As Rafaella reported last night, President Obama went “all-in” on cybersecurity last night, marrying a substantive mention of cyber in his State of the Union address (I’m bitter about that -- I bet agai...
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In the President's State of the Union Address, President Obama spent a fair amount of time on foreign policy and Lawfare-related matters. In addition to announcing his cybersecurity executive order, he d...
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Just in time for his State of the Union Address, President Obama has signed and released his executive order on cybersecurity. And we have it all right here in one place for you.
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A few weeks ago, I wrote in a brief essay published by the Hoover Institution, in which I posed the following question: "How long do we really think it will take before a gun enthusiast arms a remotely-p...
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Lt. Col. Ramon Torres now testifies by VTC from Orlando, Florida, where he works in the human resources command. But his testimony is not strictly directed to monitoring matters; instead, explains bin A...
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Aaron Zelin of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy---with whom we are piloting our little analytic experiment---has an important and timely report out entitled The State of Global Jihad Online:...
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We’re back, with CAPT Welsh still on the stand and Schwartz concluding his examination.
The latter asks about tracking: to Welsh's knowledge, does JTF-GTMO make records, when any audio monitoring is con...
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Lunch ends and our proceedings resume.
Judge Pohl does so with a few logistical notes. Our marching orders later today may depend on witnesses' video tele-conference (VTC) scheduling; the parties thus c...