We’re back.  And lo, our witness, a GTMO staff physician, is seated next to Judge Pohl already. Normally, according to Cheryl Bormann, a closed-session would take place to discuss a defendant’s medical c...

Our latest recess is over, and Judge Pohl begins by noting Walid bin Attash’s absence. This prompts Cheryl Bormann to report on her client’s status in further detail. He will be seen by a gastrointestina...

A longer-than-usual lunch break concluded, the commission is reconvened. The accused are present, save Al-Hawsawi (who departed as per his announced plan) and bin Attash.  The latter reportedly is nearby...

Recess is over, and the parties and court resume discussion of the Memorandum of Understanding (“MOU”) regarding rules imposed by the case’s protective order---and the refusal, by defense counsel for fou...

Remember the protective order (AE013)---that governing the management of national security information in the case?

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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.