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Judge James Pohl returns the bench and calls the proceedings to order.
Yesterday’s process all but foreordained our first matter: attendance. And consistent with the process announced yesterday, three ...
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The D.C. Circuit Court's opinion that we've all been waiting for has come down. The D.C. Circuit has vacated Hamdan's conviction for material support for terrorism in the Military Commission and reversed...
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Our brief recess comes to a close. It appears Judge Pohl has drafted a series of possible questions regarding the accuseds’ intention to waive their presence rights. And yet despite earlier indications...
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Lunchtime comes to a close; we thus return to presence and absence matters, and a few concluding remarks by defense counsel. Lawyers for KSM, al-Hawsawi and Bin Attash contribute a few comments.
The la...
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Our next topic is presence. No, not the Led Zeppelin album by that name. The issue, raised by Judge Pohl and now addressed by the Chief Prosecutor, instead is whether, and under what circumstances, a war...
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s speech last week on cyber is more significant than has been reported. Most of the coverage focused on Panetta’s grave warnings about cyber threats facing the nation, ...
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We’re back from recess. But before we turn to the next motion---AE53, regarding a potential conflict of interest---Commander Walter Ruiz has another point about the motion that the court just took under...
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That’s it for procedural stuff; we thus return to Ruiz, and his client’s desire for the appointment of another lawyer with a background in capital cases.
Before Ruiz can begin, Judge Pohl reminds the la...
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Judge James Pohl takes the bench and calls the hearing to order, his robes emanating (as always) rays of the purest judicial authority. “Please be seated,” he says. He clips on the microphone, which gr...
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This is a very weird column by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, acknowledging that the Times has broken important stories about the CIA's drones program and has sought more infor...
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Earlier today, lawyers for Abdullah Bin Omar Al-Hajji moved to dismiss his appeal to the D.C. Circuit voluntarily, and without prejudice.
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Here's a transcript of Defense Secretary Leon Panetta's speech yesterday on cybersecurity in New York:
Remarks by Secretary Panetta on Cybersecurity to the Business Executives for National Security, New...