Three weeks ago yesterday, in his NDU speech, President Obama announced: I’m appointing a new senior envoy at the State Department and Defense Department whose sole responsibility will be to achieve the ...

Over at Forbes, John Villasenor has this interesting piece arguing that the NSA revelations will tend to increase economic espionage against U.S.

This is pretty interesting.

Recess is done.  Does Richard Kammen want to be heard further on monitoring?  You bet he does.

The second of our two monitoring witnesses is Army Col. John Bogdan.  He’s the joint detention group commander at GTMO.  And, like Welsh’s testimony, his remarks will inform the resolution of AE149, the ...

The commission is once more called to order.  Witness testimony on AE149C, and monitoring, beckons---in particular, testimony by Navy CAPT Thomas Welsh.  He’s the Staff Judge Advocate for JTF-GTMO, and s...

This week, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) filed two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 (H.R. 1960).  The first, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and James Moran (D-VA), provi...

AE114 is next.  It involves RMC 703(c), and commission procedures for the production of witnesses.  Do these violate the Military Commissions Act, and Al-Nashiri’s constitutional and statutory due proces...

The hearing resumes, with all parties present including the accused.

Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade' Burba Cottage---our usual CCTV venue, Smallwood Hall, being unavailable---to take in another day of piped-in-from-Guantanamo hearings in United States v. Al-Nash...

In an unusual personnel move, the White House announced this afternoon that the President has withdrawn the nomination of Avril Haines to be the Legal Adviser of the State Department and is appointing he...

We resume with reply argument on AE48C.  It comes from Maj Danels, who says the motion is very simple: it asks only for the court to dismiss the charge of conspiracy, period. The prosecution, on the othe...

We return, refreshed, from a longer-than-expected lunch break.

It’s witness time.  Bryan Broyles, Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions, is sworn.  We’ll hear from him, on matters relating to monitoring---in particular, AE153.

OMB has issued a Statement of Administration Policy (SAP) pointing out White House objections to various elements in pending NDAA legislation (H.R.

Our first argued motion is AE142, a defense bid to prevent Al-Nashiri from being from removed from the courtroom during a closed session.  Rising in support of it is Maj Allison Danels, who notes the com...

Wells already flagged yesterday's news re: General Martins' apparent skepticism about the availability of conspiracy and military commission charges in future military commission cases (at least those br...