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...

Over at Security States today, Ken and I have a piece adapted in part from my post of Wednesday (to which Amnesty International responds here) on the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch r...

Avner Gidron, senior policy adviser with Amnesty International, responds to my discussion of Amnesty's new report on drone strikes in Pakistan: Perhaps it is not surprising that Benjamin Wittes disagrees...

Remember the possibility, raised earlier in the week, of stipulations regarding Al-Hawsawi’s language capability, during the case’s pre-referral phase?  Ruiz brings the matter up once more, having in min...

Lunch is done.  The buffet and fixin’s are put aside here at Smallwood, as attention returns to the CCTV screen, and CDR George Massucco once more in the witness stand.

The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was to have had a hearing today on proposed reforms to the NSA surveillance programs.  I was invited as a witness on a panel with Steve Bradbury and S...

Ruiz returns to his chat with Massucco, who remains on the stand.  The witness recalls a JTF inquiry into the February search, though he wasn’t involved in it personally.  When Ruiz asks for additional d...

The lights dim at Smallwood.  There’s some grainy imagery here, some white noise there, as the military judge affixes his lapel mic and resumes the pretrial session at Guantanamo.  Four accused are in th...

Big news out of the Second Circuit today: a three-judge panel has affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ahmed Ghailani, for his role in the U.S.

In advance of this week's hearings in the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al, Brigadier General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions, delivered the attached re...

Almost-live from Maryland's Fort George G. Meade: a third day of CCTV-broadcasted proceedings in United  States v. Mohammed et. al.

The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 3 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law. The Introduction and Chapter 1 came out in March.

As part of our work on a chapter for an upcoming book on Madisonian thought and contemporary public policy, Ben and I wrote this piece for Security States about James Madison's vacillations on executive ...

The gavel bangs.  Argument on AE164 marches forward, with J. Connell III, Ammar al-Baluchi’s attorney, leading the defense’s broadside against the prohibition on defense motions for reconsideration, with...