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6/17 Motions Session #4: Still More From MacDonald---Will This Be a One-Witness Day?
Earlier, our lunch interrupted live video testimony by Admiral Bruce MacDonald, until recently the commissions’ Convening Authority. But now lunch is done, and the defense’s questioning presses forward. -
6/17 Motions Session #3: More from Admiral MacDonald
Our recess ends and, after some brief discussion of logistics, Ruiz’s examination ekes forward. -
Annals of Associated Forces: AQI Declines to Comply with Orders from Zawahiri?
Last week I noted that Ayman al Zawahiri, head of AQ, issued a statement directing that AQI and al Nusrah remain separate entities within the AQ system, and I pointed out various questions this raised fr... -
6/17 Motions Session #2: Admiral MacDonald Returns
Now joining us by video teleconference (VTC) is retired Rear Adm. Bruce MacDonald, who was the military commissions’ Convening Authority from March 2010 until his appointment expired in March 2013. Toda... -
6/17 Motions Session #1: Testing, Testing
It’s go time at the Expeditionary Legal Complex. Judge Pohl ascends the bench and calls our proceedings to order; all five accused are present, along with their attorneys. There’s a new addition to Ram... -
USG Brief in CA2 Targeted Killing FOIA Case
Last Friday the government filed this brief in CA2 in the NYT’s and ACLU’s appeal in the case involving FOIA requests on targeted killing. -
White House WPR Report to Congress
It is dated this Friday, and begins as follows: Dear Mr. Speaker: (Dear Mr. President:) I am providing this supplemental consolidated report, prepared by my Administration and consistent with the War Po... -
2014 NDAA Passes the House, With Many Amendments
Over the last 24 hours, the House debated and voted on nearly 200 amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2014 (H.R. 1960). Many of these amendments were approved via "voice vote" (there ... -
June 13 Session #5: Final Words on Spiral Notebooks, and A Postponement
Recess is done. Does Richard Kammen want to be heard further on monitoring? You bet he does. -
June 13 Session #4: A Trip to Echo II, Part Two; Spiral Bound v. Trapper Keeper
The second of our two monitoring witnesses is Army Col. John Bogdan. He’s the joint detention group commander at GTMO. And, like Welsh’s testimony, his remarks will inform the resolution of AE149, the ... -
June 13 Session #3: A Trip to Echo II, Part One
The commission is once more called to order. Witness testimony on AE149C, and monitoring, beckons---in particular, testimony by Navy CAPT Thomas Welsh. He’s the Staff Judge Advocate for JTF-GTMO, and s... -
Rep. Smith's proposed NDAA amendments on Guantanamo and Indefinite Detention
This week, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) filed two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 (H.R. 1960). The first, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and James Moran (D-VA), provi...
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