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Ritika already posted about AEI's panel yesterday on Zero Dark Thirty, along with a link to the video of the proceedings.
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France will be departing Mali "quickly," according to the French foreign minister, as quoted in this AP report.
Now that John Kerry has been confirmed (New York Times story here, and Washington Post sto...
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The American Enterprise Institute held an event yesterday entitled “Watching ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ with the CIA: Separating fact from fiction.” According to the event description, the discussion centered ar...
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Back in 2011, I posted on the civilian criminal prosecution of a pair of former Iraqi residents Mohanad Shareef Hamadi and Waad Ramadan Alwan. Both men were charged with having been involved in the insu...
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Although our own coverage of this week's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantánamo already covered the issue in some detail, I couldn't help but be taken by Amy Davidson's...
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On All Things Considered this evening, NPR's Ari Shapiro ran this story on the closing of Amb.
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As is now familiar to everyone, rather difficult questions arise when we discuss the scope of the AUMF, the current scope of "al Qaeda," the meaning of "associated forces," and the circumstances under wh...
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AE50, our day's last, is James Connell III’s request to compel the production of three witnesses.
The first is Robin Maher, an attorney who helped to develop the ABA’s guidelines on capital cases---a le...
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Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, for Lawfare's CCTV coverage of a second day of hearings in United States v. Mohammed et.
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MAJ Sterling Thomas, on behalf of Ammar al-Baluchi, argues AE93---in which Thomas and James Connell III ask the court to grant their client a brief, audiovisual communication. Ammar al-Baluchi desires t...
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AE55 is up next. In it, the defense jointly seeks the release of redacted versions of pleadings containing classified materials.
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Ruiz takes a third stab at AE108, first by emphasizing the justification behind his proposal for overnight visits to his client’s detention center: the lawyer needs to determine sleeping patterns, other ...
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Trouble continues in Mali. French-led forces have seized the Timbuktu airport from militants, and although it is really cool that there actually is a Timbuktu, it is decidedly not cool that fighting cont...
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Lunch is done. David Nevin notes the absence of co-counsel, Gary Sowards; prosecutors remind us that all five accused remain voluntarily absent.
We circle back to AE108, regarding the conditions of con...
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We move now to AE108, a defense effort to inquire into the current conditions of the accuseds’ confinement. Day-to-day life at the detention center is a subject for LCDR Walter Ruiz, Mustafa al-Hawsawi’...
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A while back, I posted about a forthcoming article by Carlos Vázquez (Georgetown) and me on the relationship between Bivens remedies and state law, especially in national security cases.
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Let us turn now to 13U---a defense motion to strike the protective order’s “testimonial notice” provision, paragraph 8(a)(1)(b).
It’s an offensive little paragraph, according to al-Baluchi's lawyer, J.
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We come to an expected vignette about yesterday’s brief audio and video blackout.
Judge Pohl explains: the idea behind the forty-second delay is to prevent the disclosure of classified information. But...
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Do you know what time it is? 9:09 a.m., better known as resplendent-in-judicial-robes time. Judge Pohl calls our session to order. And it’s seemingly a court-and-counsel only affair; all five accused ...
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January 28, 2013: The United States signs a status of forces agreement with Niger “that clears the way for a stepped-up American military presence on the edges of the conflict in neighboring Mali,” and t...