Pretrial activities in United States v. al-Nashiri shifted focus Nov. 8 and 10, as the prosecution began presenting witnesses and physical evidence from the USS Cole for preadmission by presiding judge C...

Military commission proceedings in United States v. al-Nashiri continued Nov. 7 with military judge Col. Vance Spath presiding. Judge Advocate General Lt. Alaric Piette remains the sole counsel for the d...

Continuing with pretrial proceedings in United States v. al-Nashiri—which relates to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole—military judge Col. Vance Spath called the commission to order Nov. 3 at 9:00 am. Def...

Information Technology Provider Holds Company Hostage In 2011, a victim company wanted a website. Tavis Tso, a provider of information technology (IT) services for the company, set up a GoDaddy account...

As discussed in the last post in this series, on Wednesday, military judge Col. Vance Spath held Marine Corps Brig. Gen. John Baker, chief defense counsel of the military commissions, in contempt of cour...

Did the sanctions regime that preceded the Iran nuclear deal enable the regime's most notorious actor, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC)?

Picking up where the commission left off Tuesday, military judge Col. Vance Spath called the court to order for contempt proceedings. Present as ordered were Marine Corps Brig. Gen.

Local opposition to federal immigration enforcement is often treated as an ideological issue, with fights over sanctuary cities breaking down along familiar political lines. But setting politics aside, s...

On Tuesday morning, military judge Col. Vance Spath called to order the military commission in the case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. The 10/31 session primarily addressed the absence of three civilian...

On the Oct. 17 episode of the Lawfare Podcast, Steve Vladeck and Benjamin Wittes sparred over how concerned one should be about the incommunicado detention in Iraq of a U.S. citizen as an enemy combatant...