Last month I wrote about a “hard-to-justify” leak concerning USG infiltration of the communication channels of senior al Qaeda leaders, and affiliate leaders: [I]f the story is accurate and not authorize...

Raff already outlined the issues the en banc D.C. Circuit (minus Judge Srinivasan) will confront in tomorrow's oral argument in al Bahlul v. United States, and I have very little of substance to add to J...

Monday morning, an en banc panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in the case Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al Bahlul v. United States.

Friday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in a habeas appeal brought by Abdul Razak Ali, who also goes by the name of Saeed Bakhouch.

At long last we come to argument on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate.

Walid Bin Attash’s lawyer, Cheryl Bormann, will question the long-testifying witness, Ronald Bechtold.

The witness: Ronald Bechtold, Pentagon IT Chief.  His cross-examiner: J. Connell III.  Their subject: You know well by now. AE155 and information technology are under discussion, still, at Guantanamo’s E...

The lights dim here at Smallwood, as our piped-in-from-GTMO proceedings resume---with a quick summation of precisely what is pending before the court.  Of course we have AE155, this week's motion to abat...

James Connell III, Al-Baluchi’s Learned Counsel, cross-examines Bechtold and asks about the way forward---in particular, about our pair of much-discussed, would-be IT fixes, or “courses of action” intend...

Now we carry on with the week’s central---and until this morning, only---agenda item: evidence bearing on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate or postpone the case, in light of information technology tha...