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It's boat time. Recall that Al-Nashiri is charged with playing a role in the attack on the M/V Limburg, a French-flagged oil tanker, in Yemen; the episode resulted in the death of a Bulgarian national, ...
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Your correspondent returns to the Fort Meade CCTV outpost, to take in almost-live broadcasts of the day's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. A little after 0900, we learn the answer to an important...
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Aaaaand we’re back. In AE184, Al-Nashiri seeks the military judge’s assistance, in sending a subpoena to Jose Rodriguez pursuant to Rule 703. That’s the controversial former CIA officer and author of “H...
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Things are unraveling fast in Ukraine.
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AE197 is up next. That’s the defense’s motion to dismiss for unlawful "command" influence. A gentle correction from the bench: the military judge suggests, and defense attorney Army Maj. Thomas Hurley ...
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This takes us to presence. Does Al-Nashiri understand his right to attend the proceedings, and the consequences that might flow from even a knowing and voluntary waiver of that right? After hearing the...
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This morning, the UK’s Royal Court of Justice dismissed David Miranda’s application for judicial review of his nearly nine-hour detention at London’s Heathrow Airport last August. The Metropolitan police...
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So does Al-Nashiri want to fire his Learned Counsel?
That individual, attorney Richard Kammen, tells the military judge that he met with the accused for several hours Monday and Tuesday---and that lo, Al...
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Many thanks to everyone who has responded to my post Saturday morning about our security issues. Thanks to all who made contributions. Thanks to the cybersecurity professionals (and amateurs) who have re...
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The United States has not forgotten you, Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. The Obama administration wants to resume talks with the Afghan Taliban and has offered to trade five of its members, who are held at Guantanam...
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Today's Bits and Bytes starts out with an article about Bitcoin. As the New York Times reports, Bitcoin is facing two challenges -- from regulators who want to bring the virtual currency under the umbre...
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Over the weekend, I blogged over at Just Security about the al-Iraqi case pending before the military commissions at Guantánamo—and, in particular, Saturday’s New York Times story reporting that the gove...
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For those of you who just can't get enough of debates featuring Atlantic writer Conor Friedersdorf, who appeared debating me on drones in this week's episode of the Lawfare Podcast. .
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The pretrial session commences in unremarkable fashion, with some additions to the prosecution and defense teams; a few new lawyers put their credentials on the record.
But then comes this unforeseen de...
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It's a snowy day here at the Fort Meade CCTV facility. Lawfare's in the house, for the first of this eight-day, pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. Same format as always: dispatch...
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This morning, Jane and I posted a critique of the New York Times's very silly story about non-NSA surveillance---by one foreign government against another foreign governments---surveillance not against U...
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You'll find the statement in full, here. It opens as follows:
Good evening. Abd Al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Al Nashiri stands charged with serious violations of the law of war for his alleged role in...
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One in the recent past, two more in the very near future.
The first came on Friday, when the government added a conspiracy count to the military commission charges against Guantanamo detainee Abdul Hadi...
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Bob Gourley, of CTO Vision, thinks that the NIST Cybersecurity Framework is OK as far it goes. But he is concerned that the “framework is missing something very important that enterprises big and small ...
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Editor’s Note: Cooperation among terrorist groups is dangerous, making them far more flexible and lethal in their operations. Yet such cooperation is rare, and when it occurs it can be fraught with prob...