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A historic marker titled "Nuclear Mishap" welcomes visitors to Eureka, North Carolina, population 200. The text reads: "B-52 transporting two nuclear bombs crashed. Jan. 1961. Widespread disaster averted...
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The government has filed its opening, appellant brief in Hatim v. Obama, the "counsel access case" before the D.C. Circuit.
Before describing the brief, a bit of background is in order: this past summer...
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Big week down at Guantanamo. Wells was up to Fort Meade, covering this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 trial.
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At long last we come to argument on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate.
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Walid Bin Attash’s lawyer, Cheryl Bormann, will question the long-testifying witness, Ronald Bechtold.
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The witness: Ronald Bechtold, Pentagon IT Chief. His cross-examiner: J. Connell III. Their subject: You know well by now. AE155 and information technology are under discussion, still, at Guantanamo’s E...
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The lights dim here at Smallwood, as our piped-in-from-GTMO proceedings resume---with a quick summation of precisely what is pending before the court. Of course we have AE155, this week's motion to abat...
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James Connell III, Al-Baluchi’s Learned Counsel, cross-examines Bechtold and asks about the way forward---in particular, about our pair of much-discussed, would-be IT fixes, or “courses of action” intend...
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Now we carry on with the week’s central---and until this morning, only---agenda item: evidence bearing on AE155, the defense’s motion to abate or postpone the case, in light of information technology tha...
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As the U.N. considers the proposal to remove chemical weapons from Syria, the Economist writes about the implications of such a deal for the United States' role in the international community.
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The dew glistens outside Meade’s Smallwood Hall. Inside, our grainy screen comes alive, and displays an image of the military judge, Army. Col. James L. Pohl. He ascends the bench and calls the proceedi...
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Friday marks the last day of our week-long pre-trial session in United States v. Mohammed et. al. Lawfare is in the house, as always, and will be almost-live blogging the day's proceedings.
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Kevin Gosztola at Firedoglake has a copy of a two-page letter from NSA Director Gen.
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Over at Foreign Policy, Shane Harris has a story about Nathan Myhrvold's Lawfare Research Paper Series paper: "Strategic Terrorism: A Call to Action." Along the way, it also contains some nice words abou...
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Our recess ends. Brent Glover, encryption maven, abbreviation jockey and government witness, is recalled. Cheryl Bormann has but one question, about the scope of Glover’s testimony and expertise: this de...
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Walid Bin Attash’s Learned Counsel, Cheryl Bormann, pushes on with the afternoon’s tech-laden discussion, and the government’s witness, Brent Glover. She brandishes a demonstrative, which lists several ...
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The government will call its witnesses now, with respect to AE155---the defense motion to abate in light of IT problems. Leading off is Brent Glover, head of DoD’s Washington Headquarters Services Ident...
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Your correspondents, court, counsel and two accused return from lunch; Wendy Kelly, Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority, returns to the stand.
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Syria's back on the front pages. President Bashar al-Assad, in an interview with Fox News, flatly denied his regime used chemical weapons and accused rebel groups of responsibility for the August 21 at...
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The Chief Prosecutor swears in our next AE 155-related witness: Wendy Kelly, an attorney and Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority. David Nevin, one of KSM’s lawyers, questions her, first abou...
