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The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008. After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...
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We’ve returned from a lunch recess. So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ...
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46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008.
In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery. She de...
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Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?
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It’s go time down at Guantanamo.
Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones. Capt. Tod...
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More back-and-forth in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama, on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Last Wednesday, the government filed a response to the detainees' Dec.
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That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard. The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...
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The nearly-singular focus of last week's oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case, was the intrusiveness of JTF-GTMO's genital-area searches. That focus hasn't at all shifted, judging by ...
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The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred...
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The White House today released a "Report Consistent with the War Powers Resolution," concerning deployments of U.S. force equipped for combat. Nothing too exciting or novel here, on first glance at least...
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Linda Greenhouse has a thoughtful column over at the New York Times entitled "The Mirror of Guantanamo" about the Abdul Razak Ali case---about which I wrote some thoughts last week. Ten years ago, Greenh...
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I have only had a chance to look briefly at the Guantanamo-related provisions of the House-Senate compromise NDAA, but the text looks to me like a big win for the Obama administration---and for common se...