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Remember the protective order (AE013)---that governing the management of national security information in the case?
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The commission is called to order after a brief recess, and all accused are present.
On behalf of Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, CDR Walter Ruiz reminds the court about his request to review an unredacted version o...
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Ruiz rises in connection with his attempt to uncover precisely what FBI interviewers did---and did not---glean about Al-Hawsawi’s facility with English, during a three-day 2007 GTMO interrogation session...
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First stop, surveillance.
Make that stopover nine hours. The Guardian reports that Glenn Greenwald's partner was detained for the maximum time allowed under the UK's controversial Terrorism Act while en ...
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Brigadier General Mark Martins's statement regarding this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. is available here. It opens:
Good afternoon. Welcome to what has now officially been mea...
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The fated hour arrives, and the military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, ascends the bench. Your correspondents hear the starting gun; our week-long hearing commences in earnest.
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Over the weekend, James Connell III, defense counsel to 9/11 co-defendant Ammar Al Baluchi, issued the following statement, regarding his apparently unprecedented August 15th visit to GTMO's high-value d...
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Your Lawfare correspondents are here at the scenic Burba Cottage, located at Fort Meade, ready to provide you almost-live coverage of this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.
We'll provi...
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Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua...
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I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t...
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Edward Snowden and the NSA continued to dominate Lawfare this week.
Matt mused on how one might measure the value of the NSA surveillance programs.
Lawfare hosted a debate between Carrie Cordero and St...
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Monday at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week’s worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. When we have the docketing order we'll shar...
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Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, writes in with the following thoughts on the hunger strike currently taking place in the United Kingdom on behalf of Shaker Aamer, ...
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Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.
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. . . you will hear on a security-related theme.
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The uncommonly busy month of August chugs forward.
The Washington Post posted some more Edward Snowden-leaked NSA materials last night, as Sean mentioned.
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Over at the Washington Post, Barton Gellman has a Snowden-sourced piece revealing that the NSA "has broken privacy rules or overstepped its legal authority thousands of times each year since Congress gra...
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This afternoon, Judges Karen LeCraft Henderson, Janice Rogers Brown, and Thomas B. Griffith of the D.C. Circuit filed a per curiam order granting the government’s motion to stay the district court’s July...
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The government has filed its reply in support of its July motion for a stay pending appeal in Hatim v. Obama.
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Egypt is a giant, chaotic, deplorable mess. The death toll, as of this writing, has risen to 525, reports the New York Times. President Obama has canceled next month’s planned joint military exercise jus...