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The lights dim here at Smallwood, as our piped-in-from-GTMO proceedings resume---with a quick summation of precisely what is pending before the court. Of course we have AE155, this week's motion to abat...
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James Connell III, Al-Baluchi’s Learned Counsel, cross-examines Bechtold and asks about the way forward---in particular, about our pair of much-discussed, would-be IT fixes, or “courses of action” intend...
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Now we carry on with the week’s central---and until this morning, only---agenda item: evidence bearing on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate or postpone the case, in light of information technology tha...
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The dew glistens outside Meade’s Smallwood Hall. Inside, our grainy screen comes alive, and displays an image of the military judge, Army. Col. James L. Pohl. He ascends the bench and calls the proceedi...
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Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words abou...
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Our recess ends. Brent Glover, encryption maven, abbreviation jockey and government witness, is recalled. Cheryl Bormann has but one question, about the scope of Glover’s testimony and expertise: this de...
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Walid Bin Attash’s Learned Counsel, Cheryl Bormann, pushes on with the afternoon’s tech-laden discussion, and the government’s witness, Brent Glover. She brandishes a demonstrative, which lists several ...
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The government will call its witnesses now, with respect to AE155---the defense motion to abate in light of IT problems. Leading off is Brent Glover, head of DoD’s Washington Headquarters Services Ident...
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Your correspondents, court, counsel and two accused return from lunch; Wendy Kelly, Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority, returns to the stand.
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The Chief Prosecutor swears in our next AE 155-related witness: Wendy Kelly, an attorney and Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority. David Nevin, one of KSM’s lawyers, questions her, first abou...
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Scott Parr, Branch Chief for Information Technology at the Office of Military Commissions (“OMC”) and the Convening Authority, is on the witness stand. Questioning him is Gary Sowards, one of KSM’s attor...
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Buckle up, Smallwood CCTV fans; we’re back in session at Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom 2.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Walid Bin Attash are the only two accused present. The absences...