The final document in the cache declassified by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) on Wednesday is the ninth joint compliance assessment conducted by the ODNI and the Department o...

Jack’s post makes the point that the Kosovo precedent won’t get the U.S. government very far if it is looking for a solid international legal precedent for intervention in Syria.  That seems absolutely r...

President Obama famously said in 2008 that the President lacks “power under the Constitution to unilaterally authorize a military attack in a situation that does not involve stopping an actual or imminen...

As the pressure to intervene in Syria builds, the administration once again, as in Libya, appears more focused on international law than domestic law.  Here is what the President said Thursday night in a...

Here is the Chief Prosecutor of the military commissions, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement, which addresses this week's hearings in the United States v.

A few weeks ago, Daniel Klaidman noted in the Daily Beast the existence of a White House memo outlining its proposal to close Guantanamo.

So end two important cases in the history of America’s military involvement in Afghanistan. Although the defendants and their crimes are unrelated to one another, their stories are equally depressing and...

The noncontroversial dispensed with, we move to the controversial: now, the defense’s emergency motion regarding information technology matters.  Maj. Jason Wright, one of KSM’s lawyers, previews it---on...

We pick up with a quick clarifying point about vicarious liability: the idea, the military judge confirms with the Chief Prosecutor, is that the jury must find that a substantive offenses was committed, ...

It’s 1:32 when the commission is once more called to order, and AE120 is teed up in earnest.  That’s the government’s motion to make so-called “minor conforming changes” to the charge sheet, so as to mak...

Human rights advocates often express disappointment (if not anger) that the U.S. Government (and the Obama Administration in particular) is not more supportive of lawsuits in U.S.

Let us now discuss, for but a fleeting moment, the ongoing representation status of CDR Walter Ruiz.

We return to our regularly-scheduled programming at the Expeditionary Legal Complex’s Courtroom #2.  Presenting rebuttal argument on AE107 is CDR Walter Ruiz, lawyer for 9/11 accused Mustafa al-Hawsawi. ...

Mustafa al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, CDR Walter Ruiz, stands to argue AE107---a motion to dismiss certain offenses as beyond military commission jurisdiction.

Two months ago, we ran a post explaining the NSA's minimization procedures based on a copy of the procedures (dating from June 2009) that had been leaked to the Guardian.

LCDR Kevin Bogucki argues AE105---or would, if the time were right.  But it isn’t, in his opinion. Ramzi Binal Shibh’s attorney thinks AE031, a motion to dismiss for unlawful influence, jibes with AE105,...

Last day of the five-day session, y’all.  Resplendent-in-robes time arrives, and the military judge notes that all five accused are absent.