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6/21 Motions Session #6: Adieu, CAPT Welsh
Defense re-direct of Welsh follows, and---the day having slogged on---we’ll summarize it ever briefly. -
6/21 Motions Session #5: Are We There Yet?
Suspense: will we proceed with the prosecution’s examination of CAPT Welsh? We wait to find out. Prosecutor Edward Ryan has a few housekeeping matters, one having to do with the long pending AE18---the... -
6/21 Motions Session #4: Much Welsh
The ELC conch passes to the Abaya-clad Cheryl Bormann, lawyer for Walid Bin Attash. She met our still-testifying witness, CAPT Welsh, in the summer of 2011. Before teleporting back to then, however, de... -
6/21 Motions Session #3: Welsh & Ruiz LLP
Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling? Nope. -
6/21 Motions Session #2: Welsh, Connell, and Harrington
The prosecutor Robert Swann returns to the podium; our JTF staffer returns to the witness stand, having run his needed errand. Al-Baluchi, the witness says, just told me that in fact, his teeth had shif... -
6/21 Motions Session #1: Did Al-Baluchi's Dentist Just Call a Recess?
The commission is called to order. The accused are with us here, save two: Mustafa Al-Hawsawi and Ammar Al-Baluchi. Did the latter two men waive, knowingly and voluntarily, their rights to attend? Afte... -
On Ducks and the D.C. Circuit: A Thought on <em>Hussain</em>
A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3... -
6/20 Motions Session #4: Who Reads Lawfare, Anyway?
Remember CAPT Thomas Welsh, the Staff Judge Advocate at GTMO? He is our next witness, appears in person, and is questioned by KSM lawyer David Nevin. Welsh had about three months’ experience at the camp... -
6/20 Motions Session #3: The Last of Admiral Woods’s Testimony
Prosecutor Edward Ryan will cross-examine Admiral David Woods, once JTF-GTMO’s commanding officer (whose testimony is relevant, among other things, to the defense’s efforts to dismiss the case on defecti... -
6/20 Motions Session #2: Two Lawyers and One Admiral
Life is restored to our CCTV screen here at Burba Cottage---thus signaling a return to open proceedings. The accused are back in the courtroom. What about our recent Rule 505(h)? There was no cut in t... -
6/20 Motions Session #1: First Woods, Then Rule 505(h)
We would hear the gavel bang, but there doesn’t appear to be a gavel inside the Expeditionary Legal Complex courtroom. At any rate, the military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, ascends the bench and calls ... -
6/19 Motions Hearing #6: Woods' Words
Crackles can be heard as lapel mics are adjusted and our proceedings are called back to order. A cell phone detection alert in the courtroom caused our most recent technical outage. Judge Pohl asks all...
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