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The New York Times has just published a story in which it quotes an unnamed "senior American official" who confirms Israel's assertions that the Bulgaria bombing was carried out by a Hezbollah cell opera...
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Earlier today, numerous Israeli English-language media outlets (Times of Israel, Haaretz) picked up Bulgarian news stories that identified the Bulgarian suicide bomber as Mehdi Ghezali, a 33-year old Swe...
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The Chief Prosecutor's full statement follows below:
CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS
REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY
19 JULY 2012
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We turn to the day’s final motion, AE97, regarding the defense’s request to compel the timely translation of documents into Arabic for Al-Nashiri. The motion is brand-spanking new; the defense filed it ...
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With lunch recess cancelled, we move swiftly to AE81, the defense motion to make commission proceedings available to other media outlets. Defense attorney Richard Kammen has modest desires for this moti...
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Again it is Reyes for the defense.
His subject? The Convening Authority, the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and the defense’s motion to dismiss on Appointments Clause grounds (AE87). The Conveni...
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Defense attorney Lt. Cdr. Stephen Reyes is up first for AE86---the motion to withdraw the charges because of an improper referral by the Convening Authority. The issue is this, he says: ordinarily, the ...
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There is an inordinately large amount of reporting coming out of Mali these days. Apparently news travels fast about the influence that Al Qaeda in the Magreb is playing in that country.
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Judge Pohl bids good morning to our Guantanamo courtroom audience (and thus, indirectly, to those of us in the CCTV facility cheap seats). But wait: he’s not yet attired in his customary, authority-eman...
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Coming to you live from Guantanamo, via Fort Meade CCTV: the third day of the motions session in United States v. Al-Nashiri. As before, we'll have blog posts up in the "Events Coverage" section, with l...
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Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released a statement following the completion of yesterday's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.
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Given the track record of the Law of War revision project, smart money probably has to be on the ICRC, even with a 2015 estimate for the first volume in their new series (see here). Of course, both proj...
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It's turned out to be a very big news day in national security litigation land... In addition to the extensive coverage of Aulaqi v. Panetta (to which I hope to add some thoughts of my own later tonight)...
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Over at the AEIdeas blog, Marc Thiessen asks derisively: “Why is the ACLU suiting Panetta, Petraus over Awlaki Killing—But Not President Obama?”
He writes:
if it’s accountability they want, then why isn...
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As Ben and Bobby and Jack have already noted, big news from the ACLU and the CCR today.
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In Power and Constraint, I argued (in a chapter summarized here) that the Center for Constitutional Rights litigation strategy for GTMO garnered crucial judicial support for GTMO detentions that in the e...
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The American Bar Association Standing Committee on Law and National Security has just released a new book, Patriots Debate: Contemporary Issues in National Security Law which will, I'm sure, be of intere...
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I have now read through the ACLU-CCR lawsuit on behalf of the Al-Aulaqi and Khan families. Here are my initial thoughts:
First, this lawsuit does not suffer from the prohibitive standing problem that pl...
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As Ben says, there is a lot to talk about with respect to al-Aulaqi v. Panetta, a civil suit filed today by the ACLU and CCR in an attempt to obtain money damages for airstrikes conducted by the United S...
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The ACLU has filed suit over the deaths in drone strikes of three U.S. citizens: Anwar Al-Aulaqi, his 16-year-old son, and AQAP propagandist Samir Khan. The complaint is available here. The ACLU's press ...