The dew glistens outside Meade’s Smallwood Hall.  Inside, our grainy screen comes alive, and displays an image of the military judge, Army. Col. James L. Pohl. He ascends the bench and calls the proceedi...

Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words abou...

Our recess ends. Brent Glover, encryption maven, abbreviation jockey and government witness, is recalled. Cheryl Bormann has but one question, about the scope of Glover’s testimony and expertise: this de...

Walid Bin Attash’s Learned Counsel, Cheryl Bormann, pushes on with the afternoon’s tech-laden discussion, and the government’s witness, Brent Glover.  She brandishes a demonstrative, which lists several ...

The government will call its witnesses now, with respect to AE155---the defense motion to abate in light of IT problems.  Leading off is Brent Glover, head of DoD’s Washington Headquarters Services Ident...

Your correspondents, court, counsel and two accused return from lunch; Wendy Kelly, Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority, returns to the stand.

The Chief Prosecutor swears in our next AE 155-related witness: Wendy Kelly, an attorney and Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority.  David Nevin, one of KSM’s lawyers, questions her, first abou...

The prosecutor Edward Ryan cross-examines the Chief Defense Counsel, and moves, after a few initial questions, to her ethical obligations.  Under them, Mayberry must make only a “reasonable effort” to en...

David Nevin resumes his discussion with the defense’s witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel at the Office of Military Commissions. The pair discuss information technology prob...

Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ...