It's Thursday here at Fort Meade's little CCTV hovel---from which a skeleton crew will observe, remotely and in nearly real time, pre-trial motions proceedings in the 9/11 case. Look for dispatches thro...

The Washington Post had an important story yesterday involving the future of the 53 military detainees who remain in U.S.

The appellants in Aamer v. Obama have spent the last month battling the government for a complete copy of recently revised Guantanamo force-feeding protocols, according to a motion filed by the detainees...

We’re back.  What’s next?

The curtain is raised once more. Applause surges rapidly at the Smallwood CCTV hovel and then dies down just as rapidly, as lunch comes to an end.  Counsel is Mustafa Al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, Walter Ruiz.  H...

Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings.  The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.

Game on.  The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench.  Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi.  That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...

It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. Sam...

It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two.  Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...

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...

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 ...

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...