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Onward with the topic of the day: the government's proposed protective order. Here to challenge it on First Amendment grounds are David Schulz and Hina Shamsi.
Schulz appears on behalf of 14 news organ...
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The technical goof apparently is resolved, so discussion picks up once more.
James Connell III continues with defense security officer matters. He thus reviews with Judge Pohl, closely, what the duties...
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Let's start off with a cheery topic: nuclear disarmament. Over at Time's Battleland blog, Mark Thompson reminds us that the Lugar in Nunn-Lugar will be out of the Senate come January (the Nunn has been o...
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The sound of the gavel is really two sounds at once: that of restarting proceedings in United States v. Mohammed et al., and that of the dorkosphere quickly digesting, and already debating, today’s rulin...
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The drum roll sounds and we move to the day’s most anticipated issue: the government’s proposal for an order protecting classified national security information---in particular, the prosecution’s recent ...
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AE48 is our first motion, and its all about fashion---that is, the authority of the JTF commander to permit some of the defendants’ clothing choices, but to deny others.
The dispute mercifully has narro...
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Raff already shared the news re: this morning's D.C.
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Judge James Pohl returns the bench and calls the proceedings to order.
Yesterday’s process all but foreordained our first matter: attendance. And consistent with the process announced yesterday, three ...
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The D.C. Circuit Court's opinion that we've all been waiting for has come down. The D.C. Circuit has vacated Hamdan's conviction for material support for terrorism in the Military Commission and reversed...
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The week-long hearing in United States v. Mohammed et al. resumes today at 9 a.m. As always, look for not-quite-live dispatches throughout the day; the posts will be displayed in our Events Coverage sec...
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Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor for the military commissions, has issued a statement regarding today's proceedings in United States v. Mohammed et al.
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Our brief recess comes to a close. It appears Judge Pohl has drafted a series of possible questions regarding the accuseds’ intention to waive their presence rights. And yet despite earlier indications...
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As Wells has been reporting from Ft. Meade, the mammoth motions hearing in United States v. Mohammed et al resumed today at Guantanamo Bay.
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Lunchtime comes to a close; we thus return to presence and absence matters, and a few concluding remarks by defense counsel. Lawyers for KSM, al-Hawsawi and Bin Attash contribute a few comments.
The la...
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Our next topic is presence. No, not the Led Zeppelin album by that name. The issue, raised by Judge Pohl and now addressed by the Chief Prosecutor, instead is whether, and under what circumstances, a war...
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Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta’s speech last week on cyber is more significant than has been reported. Most of the coverage focused on Panetta’s grave warnings about cyber threats facing the nation, ...
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We’re back from recess. But before we turn to the next motion---AE53, regarding a potential conflict of interest---Commander Walter Ruiz has another point about the motion that the court just took under...
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That’s it for procedural stuff; we thus return to Ruiz, and his client’s desire for the appointment of another lawyer with a background in capital cases.
Before Ruiz can begin, Judge Pohl reminds the la...
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Judge James Pohl takes the bench and calls the hearing to order, his robes emanating (as always) rays of the purest judicial authority. “Please be seated,” he says. He clips on the microphone, which gr...
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And we're back . . . at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, for the first day of this week's closed-circuit-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo hearing in USA v. Mohammed et al. We'll have updates throughout the day, ...
