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Judge Spath begins today’s hearings noting that Al-Nashiri is not present. The court first hears testimony from the Guantanamo Staff Judge Advocate who had received Al-Nashiri’s waiver, Captain G, who wa...
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The thing kind of speaks for itself:
[View the story "My Twitter Exchange with Glenn Greenwald " on Storify]
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So reports the New York Times:
MOSCOW — Edward J. Snowden, the American intelligence contractor who published a raft of secret documents and then fled to Russia, has been granted a three-year residence ...
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The New York Times is reporting that, according to Kurdish officials, American forces have bombed ISIS targets in Iraq:
American military forces bombed at least two targets in northern Iraq on Thursday ...
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Over at the Wall Street Journal, Siobhan Gorman is reporting on a new letter from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on Sen. Leahy's FISA reform legislation. Signed by U.S.
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Judge Spath then moves to AE 295, a defense filing and the penultimate item on the agenda.
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In the final session for the day, Judge Spath announces he has come to a ruling on AE277. This is the defense's bid for Al-Nashiri to have an MRI examination, presumably in order to unearth the damage w...
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A reminder: Lawfare has digests of yesterday's pre-trial proceedings in United States v.
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The Gaza-Israel ceasefire enters into its second day today.
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When the Court reconvenes, Major Tom Hurley begins argument on AE 280. In it, the defense requests that summaries of classified discovery be marked with more granular classification information. Specifi...
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The military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath, begins the morning's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri---his second on the case---by ruling on two pending motions.
First, Judge Spath grants defense...
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That's the gist of this statement, made today by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinst...
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The FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 (S.2520) (“FIA”) sets out to make various tweaks to a key federal access to information statute, the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).
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For the (two?) readers who are following the exchange between Steve and me on Article III and appellate review in the Leahy bill, I wanted to offer two responses to Steve's latest post. The first respons...
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Over on CNN’s Global Public Square, I’ve written about recent events in Libya – including the evacuation of American and many foreign diplomats – and what they mean for the Responsibility to Protect.
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In this edition of Today's Headlines and Commentary, Lawfare will test out a new style convention. As you will see below, in order to make for easier skimming and locating within the post, we have boldfa...
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the government’s motion to dismiss Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and declaratory judgment in ...
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As I suspected it would, the exchange between my friend Orin Kerr and me on the constitutionality of the appellate review provisions in the Senate version of the USA FREEDOM Act has morphed into a broade...
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A little update from Lawfare HQ, regarding our remaining coverage of this week's pre-trial motions hearings in the military commission case of United States v.
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My friend Steve Vladeck has graciously responded to my post on the Article III problems I see with appellate review in the Leahy bill. I wanted to return to the issue one more time to sharpen the discuss...