-
Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ...
-
First, some additional information has come out about the Navy Yard shooter: He purchased the shotgun a day before in northern Virginia, says NPR, and the red flags in his previous actions just weren't r...
-
Do other counsel want to talk to Mayberry? One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does.
-
The morning’s second session picks up where the first left off: with Bin Attash attorney Cheryl Bormann, with her witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel, and with a discussion ...
-
Our morning’s litigation commences in earnest with AE155, a defense bid to postpone the pretrial proceedings, for reasons having to do with information technology. (We got a preview of this motion alrea...
-
At 9:03 a.m. the military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, ascends the bench. All defense counsel are here, including Walid Bin Attash’s attorney, Cheryl Bormann---who still sounds stuffed up, but report...
-
The action resumes today at Guantanamo, and yours truly will be taking in pretrial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et. al. via CCTV at Fort Meade. Y'all know the drill: find almost-live blog posts...
-
Today’s release of two important FISC documents probably won’t generate the media frenzy that previous releases of NSA materials have sparked. As of this writing, the New York Times did not even have the...
-
It is available here. It is dated August 29 and includes a "primary order" dated July 19. It deals with the legality of the telephony metadata program under Section 215. I have not read it yet but will d...
-
A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann (Cambridge UP 2007)
-
The gunman who opened fire at the Navy Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. has been identified as one Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist who was discharged in 2011 for misconduct. He was hired by ...
-
We are doing an experiment on Thursday with the West LegalEdcenter: A lunchtime educational webcast entitled: "The NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?"
In our readership survey earlier this yea...
-
The question before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Tuesday morning: can a group of detainees held by the United States at Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan, challenge their detentions by petitioni...
-
It appears the morning's recess will push on a bit longer than the court indicated initially. Instead of resuming at noon, court will resume, we are now told, at 2:00 p.m.
UPDATE: our proceedings are r...
-
In breaking news, a gunman opened fire in the Washington Navy Yard this morning and is believed to be hiding in one of the buildings on the installation in Southeast Washington. The Washington Post repor...
-
It’s on again. All five accused are present.
Opening the day's events are housekeeping matters, as always. First, since last session, the prosecution has added a new lawyer. Secondly, one of Walid Bin...
-
Your Lawfare correspondent returns to Fort Meade to watch, via CCTV, another week-long set of hearings in the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al. The Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen.
-
Tomorrow will see the resumption of pre-trial hearings at Guantanamo, and CCTV broadcasts of those hearings at Fort Meade. Lawfare will be at Fort Meade's CCTV facility for the week-long session, as per...
-
On Wednesday, the Guantánamo detainees appealing the D.C. District Court's refusal to enjoin the government from force-feeding hunger-strikers at the detention camp filed their reply in Aamer v. Obama.
-
This week saw the twelfth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, and the first anniversary of the attacks in Benghazi. Jane published an essay, drawing on E.B. White's Here Is New York, to mark the day.
One o...