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In AE18, Lt. Col. Tom Jasper seeks, on behalf of Al-Hadi, to compel discovery into certain communications---those between the Convening Authority and Defense Department brass, regarding the release of Pr...
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We return from recess, and Clayton resumes his argument in opposition to AE19---a motion to strike common allegations from the charge sheet against Al-Hadi.
Clayton refers to Stirk’s suggestion that the...
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In motion AE19, the defense asks the court to strike certain common allegations from the charge sheet. One of Al-Hadi’s lawyers, Maj. Ben Stirk, explains why.
The incorporation of “common allegations” i...
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The military judge, Capt. Keith Waits, calls our session to order. All parties are present, including the accused. That means a quick colloquy about Al-Hadi’s right to be present, the consequences of k...
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Today marks the first of a possibly three-day, pre-trial motions hearing in the military commission case of United States v. Abd. Al Hadi Al-Iraqi.
Y'all know the drill: from 9 a.m. onward, video and a...
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The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has just released a report on the condition of civilians living under ISIS rule. The document is based largely on first-hand victim and witness ac...
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Deb Riechman at AP is reporting:
Militant leaders from the Islamic State group and al-Qaida gathered at a farm house in northern Syria last week and agreed on a plan to stop fighting each other and work ...
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The order grants a motion filed by Al-Nashiri, and was handed down today by Circuit Judges Cornelia Pillard and Judith Rogers, over the dissent of Circuit Judge Brett Kavanaugh. It's gist is temporarily ...
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As previewed by Charlie Savage in the New York Times this morning, the U.S. delegation appeared before the Committee Against Torture in Geneva today and announced a modest but important change in the U.S.
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Allow me to stress an issue perhaps in the capillaries, rather than at the heart, of the ISIS AUMF debate: language in the next AUMF’s preamble.
So far as I know, nobody is talking about this just yet.
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Streaming video is below.
As noted earlier, Senator Tim Kaine (D-Va) will give remarks on ISIS and congressional authorization; afterwards, Wilson Center Director and former Representative Jane Harman, ...
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Two quick reactions to John Bellinger’s post on a new ISIL AUMF:
I agree that the new Congress and not the lame duck Congress is best suited to revise the 2001 AUMF (and, in my opinion, also to put the ...