In what could be a consequential move, federal prosecutors this week informed a man accused of providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union ("IJU") that they intend to "offer into evidence or ot...

Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...

Here 'tis.  The remarks of the Chief Prosecutor begin as follows: Good evening. This week, the Military Commission convened to try the charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mu...

I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico:

I've been thinking about the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports in the context of my Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties from this summer, in which I examined the different met...

Odds and ends are batted around, as some motions are deemed moot, and others are put off until the case’s December sitting.  The whittling down takes us eventually to AE158, and to Ruiz’s bid to prevent ...

Next is AE175.  It is perhaps the prosecution’s most hotly anticipated item, and for good reason.  The motion asks the military judge to enter the prosecution’s proposed trial scheduling order.  Among ot...

White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco has a piece in USA Today on NSA surveillance matters. The key paragraph: All three branches of government play a role in overseeing our intelligence activ...

We’re back from lunch.  How shall we proceed? The Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, proposes beginning with a motion to compel, AE167, before moving on to, among other things, argument on AE120...

Many different motions get batted around during the pre-lunch period, but only two take up substantial argument time.  (The remainder---among other things, AE120, regarding the prosecution’s proposed cha...

In our next item, AE149, the defense seeks the return of computer hard drives and DVDs.  These contain information---discovery and materials KSM and company prepared themselves--- generated during the ol...

Today defense counsel to Mustafa al Hawsawi in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 case, delivered this letter to President Obama.

A video hookup beams the testimony of our next witness, Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel Bryan Broyles, from Rosslyn, Virginia, to Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex---and thus also to the Fo...

Sox and Cards gear donned, game faces on, the parties and military judge reconvene.  Lo and behold, four of the five accused are in the courtroom, the sole absentee being Mustafa Al-Hawsawi.  He is so la...

On Monday night in Cairo, masked men on a motorcycle gunned down a man, a woman and an eight-year-old child as they came out of a wedding. Tuesday morning a 12-year-old girl, who was also critically inju...

Today marks the fourth and final day in this week's pretrial hearing in United States v. Mohammed et. al.  We expect a gavel bang at 9:00, and will, as always, post reports on the proceedings in our "Eve...

A diplomatic disaster for the United States is currently unfolding in Berlin. The revelation that the NSA may have monitored cell phone conversations and text messages of Chancellor Angela Merkel has led...