The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week publicly released a new Intelligence Community Directive (ICD 119) establishing policies for contacts between the media and personnel inside ...

As Ritika noted, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Michael Daniel today announced some aspects of the government’s policy on disclosing cyber vulnerabilities.

We shuffle things around a bit, first by putting off AE263 temporarily.  It appears that motion, along with related litigation concerning hearsay statements offered by the prosecution, will be postponed ...

Tuesday morning, Philippines time, finds me in Manila---not with President Obama, but at the U.S.

Michael Daniel, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, just published this important post on the White House blog about how and when the government decides to disclose cyber vulnerabilities: When Presid...

Yesterday, and in a somewhat unusual turn, court and counsel at Guantanamo met for the last day of a pre-trial motions hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.

Can the military commissions be improved?  Recent events squarely raise the question.  A New York jury recently convicted Osama Bin Laden’s son-in-law of conspiracy to kill Americans and other terrorism-...

Denied without comment today, by the United States Supreme Court: the petition for a writ of ceritorari in Hedges v. Obama. 

Here it is.  The remarks of Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the Chief Prosecutor at the military commissions, open thusly: In my remarks two weeks ago, I highlighted one woman’s bewilderment at how the open mil...

Excellent recent posts by Ben and Marty draw attention to the impact that the drawdown in Afghanistan likely will have on GTMO habeas litigation.

In May I will be participating in a conference at the Hague Institute for Global Justice.  Part of the Global Governance Reform Initiative, the conference is entitled "

Editor’s Note: Since the outbreak of the Arab Spring in December 2010, commentators have regularly described relations between Washington and Riyadh as strained at best and near collapse at worst. The po...

After CDR Lockhart lays out the parties' agreed upon schedule for the rest of the afternoon session, the court begins with AE 244, a defense motion to dismiss numerous charges as multiplicitous of other ...

Picking up on the end of Thursday's session, the court will consider multiple defense motions seeking to strike the first aggravator---that the life of one or more persons other than the victim was unlaw...

The morning session starts off with the calling of a pseudonymous witness, Dr. M, to testify on Al-Nashiri's psychological diagnosis and current treatment at Guantanamo Bay. But there's already a problem...

Very interesting and thoughtful comments over at Just Security by Marty Lederman on Justice Breyer's brief opinion in the Hussain cert denial the other day. Marty writes: As Justice Breyer notes . .

The court returns from recess and quickly puts off consideration of two defense motions---AE229 and AE230---seeking to compel information from the government pertaining to the training and certifications...