Our recess ends. Brent Glover, encryption maven, abbreviation jockey and government witness, is recalled. Cheryl Bormann has but one question, about the scope of Glover’s testimony and expertise: this de...

Walid Bin Attash’s Learned Counsel, Cheryl Bormann, pushes on with the afternoon’s tech-laden discussion, and the government’s witness, Brent Glover.  She brandishes a demonstrative, which lists several ...

The government will call its witnesses now, with respect to AE155---the defense motion to abate in light of IT problems.  Leading off is Brent Glover, head of DoD’s Washington Headquarters Services Ident...

Your correspondents, court, counsel and two accused return from lunch; Wendy Kelly, Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority, returns to the stand.

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...

Your Lawfare correspondent returns to Fort Meade today for another day of hearings in United States v. Mohammed et.

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

Do other counsel want to talk to Mayberry?  One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does.

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...