Your correspondents bid goodbye to Burba’s lakeside picnic tables, just before the military judge announces the resumption of proceedings.  One accused, Ramzi Binal Shibh, has joined the group at the ELC...

A mish-mash-y discussion follows on motions to compel, the mish-mash being necessary for many reasons: because many substantive motions overlap, and thus call for interrelated but separate compulsion req...

Ruiz remains at the podium to argue another compulsion motion, AE031F (which also is styled 032H and 133E, given its relevance not merely to AE031, but to other motions, too).

Another series of motions to compel awaits us, this one bearing on AE031, the defense’s motion to dismiss the case for unlawful influence.

Motion to compel number two (AE008M) pertains, like the day’s earlier motion, to the former Convening Authority’s testimony.  Retired Vice Admiral MacDonald told the commission that, during his pre-refer...

Motion to compel time---beginning with those regarding AE008, the defense’s motion to dismiss for defective referral.  First is a bid to compel testimony from Michael Breslin, legal advisor to the Conven...

And we’re off.

Lawfare's almost-live coverage of this week's motions hearings continue today at 0900 in the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al. For those who missed our coverage earlier in the wee...

For years Martin Feldstein has been running a great seminar on the economics of national security at Harvard.  He has now established a national organization -- the Economics of National Security Associa...

My Brookings colleague Bill Galston has this thoughtful and important column in the Wall Street Journal on the tension between privacy and transparency in the recent controversies over intelligence colle...

The defense lawyer for Guantanamo detainee and military commission convict Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman Al-Bahlul has reported to the D.C. Circuit once more on his efforts to meet with his client. The D.C. Ci...

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The day’s final protective order motion: AE013JJ, Connell’s motion to amend the order, so as to permit an accused to participate in his own defense.  By this, Connell refers to the extent to which an acc...

James Connell III, an attorney for Ammar al-Baluchi and the day’s undisputed protective order maven, returns.  Now his subject is AE013II, wherein counsel has moved to clarify the protective order’s rule...

Harrington at the podium: after further discussion, the lawyer says he thinks that there are ongoing issues as between Binal Shibh and the guard force.  Harrington likely can deal with those.  If he can’...

The commission is again called to order.

13HH beckons.