Five years ago today, the Supreme Court handed down its 5-4 decision in Boumediene v. Bush, holding that the Constitution's Suspension Clause "has full effect" at Guantánamo Bay, and that the review sche...

Since we’re already talking about the subject, the defense dives right into AE141, its motion on the Prudential Search Requests (PSR) process employed by prosecutors.  Al-Nashiri’s newest defense counsel...

Before the podium stands Richard Kammen, Al-Nashiri’s lead lawyer.  His chosen subject is AE143, a defense motion to compel discovery of exculpatory information the government previously furnished to Al-...

On to the discipline of Defense-Initiated Victim/Survivor Outreach, or DIVO (AE107).  Kammen and crew seek funding for two DIVO liaisons.  In prior proceedings,  Judge Pohl asked to hear more about DIVO ...

Defense lawyer Richard Kammen speaks about AE27L---a motion to enforce compliance with a commission order, so far as concerns spiral notebooks, eyeglasses, writing utensils, eyeglasses and similar items ...

Aaaaaand we’re back.  AE149 is up next.  It’s a motion to compel, regarding witnesses to certain alleged monitoring---specifically, electronic monitoring of attorney-client meetings at Echo II, where det...

The in-court audio gadgets having been satisfactorily adjusted, the hearing picks up again.  Some more odds and ends noted for the record: the court raises the recent Rule 706 examination requested by th...

The proverbial gavel sounds; the military judge, resplendent as ever in his robes, returns; Al-Nashiri’s case resumes.  He is in the courtroom, seated at the far left of counsel table.

Your correspondents return to Fort Meade in order to observe---via almost live, closed circuit television---four days of pretrial proceedings in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  The hearing in the capital m...

So we learn from these charging documents, and from the Department of Defense's press release.