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Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings. The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.
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Game on. The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench. Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi. That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...
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It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case.
Sam...
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It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two. Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...
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The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008. After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...
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We’ve returned from a lunch recess. So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ...
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46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008.
In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery. She de...
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Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?
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It’s go time down at Guantanamo.
Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones. Capt. Tod...
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More back-and-forth in the force-feeding case Aamer v. Obama, on appeal before the D.C. Circuit. Last Wednesday, the government filed a response to the detainees' Dec.
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The nearly-singular focus of last week's oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case, was the intrusiveness of JTF-GTMO's genital-area searches. That focus hasn't at all shifted, judging by ...
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The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred...