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 ...

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...

Raff already shared the news re: this morning's D.C.

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 ...

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...

Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor for the military commissions, has issued a statement regarding today's proceedings in United States v. Mohammed et al.

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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, ...

This is a very weird column by New York Times public editor Margaret Sullivan. Sullivan, acknowledging that the Times has broken important stories about the CIA's drones program and has sought more infor...

The following State Department teleconference on Libya took place the other day: Office of the Spokesperson Background Conference Call With Senior State Department Officials Washington, DC October 9, ...

Brigadier General Mark Martins, the Chief Prosecutor for the military commissions at Guantanamo, has released this statement regarding this week's motions hearing in United States v. Mohammed et al.