Last Thursday, Judge Gerald Bruce Lee of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia granted motions to dismiss the suit of a former Guantánamo detainee in Ameur v. Gates for lack of sub...

Here is the latest development in the Al-Bahlul appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Readers may recall that in May, the court received conflicting statements from detainee and counsel---one from Mr. Al-Bahlu...

It's a big week at the Supreme Court, but Guantanamo habeas heads will not want to miss this development: the cert denial in Obaydullah on Monday. Steve wrote about this cert petition here, and coverage ...

Last week, the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) approved its version of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY2014.

Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al. It opens: Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...

The evidence submitted, it falls to Edward Ryan to argue in support of AE18, the prosecution’s request for a written communications order.

Defense re-direct of Welsh follows, and---the day having slogged on---we’ll summarize it ever briefly.

Suspense: will we proceed with the prosecution’s examination of CAPT Welsh?  We wait to find out.  Prosecutor Edward Ryan has a few housekeeping matters, one having to do with the long pending AE18---the...

The ELC conch passes to the Abaya-clad Cheryl Bormann, lawyer for Walid Bin Attash.  She met our still-testifying witness, CAPT Welsh, in the summer of 2011.  Before teleporting back to then, however, de...

Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling?  Nope.