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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...
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Scott Parr, Branch Chief for Information Technology at the Office of Military Commissions (“OMC”) and the Convening Authority, is on the witness stand. Questioning him is Gary Sowards, one of KSM’s attor...
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Buckle up, Smallwood CCTV fans; we’re back in session at Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom 2.
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Walid Bin Attash are the only two accused present. The absences...
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Your Lawfare correspondent returns to Fort Meade today for another day of hearings in United States v. Mohammed et.
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Our piece last night summarizing the just-released FISC opinion on Section 215 bulk metadata collection unleashed a storm of protest that caught us a little by surprise.
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The prosecutor Edward Ryan cross-examines the Chief Defense Counsel, and moves, after a few initial questions, to her ethical obligations. Under them, Mayberry must make only a “reasonable effort” to en...
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David Nevin resumes his discussion with the defense’s witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel at the Office of Military Commissions. The pair discuss information technology prob...
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Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ...
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First, some additional information has come out about the Navy Yard shooter: He purchased the shotgun a day before in northern Virginia, says NPR, and the red flags in his previous actions just weren't r...
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Do other counsel want to talk to Mayberry? One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does.
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The morning’s second session picks up where the first left off: with Bin Attash attorney Cheryl Bormann, with her witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel, and with a discussion ...
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Our morning’s litigation commences in earnest with AE155, a defense bid to postpone the pretrial proceedings, for reasons having to do with information technology. (We got a preview of this motion alrea...
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At 9:03 a.m. the military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, ascends the bench. All defense counsel are here, including Walid Bin Attash’s attorney, Cheryl Bormann---who still sounds stuffed up, but report...
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The action resumes today at Guantanamo, and yours truly will be taking in pretrial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et. al. via CCTV at Fort Meade. Y'all know the drill: find almost-live blog posts...
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Today’s release of two important FISC documents probably won’t generate the media frenzy that previous releases of NSA materials have sparked. As of this writing, the New York Times did not even have the...
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It is available here. It is dated August 29 and includes a "primary order" dated July 19. It deals with the legality of the telephony metadata program under Section 215. I have not read it yet but will d...
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A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja by Joost R. Hiltermann (Cambridge UP 2007)
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The gunman who opened fire at the Navy Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C. has been identified as one Aaron Alexis, a former Navy reservist who was discharged in 2011 for misconduct. He was hired by ...
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We are doing an experiment on Thursday with the West LegalEdcenter: A lunchtime educational webcast entitled: "The NSA Disclosures: What Do We Really Know Now?"
In our readership survey earlier this yea...
