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An important predicate for the legal and political justification for the U.S.
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A couple of weeks ago, I poked fun at the Virginia General Assembly's protest legislation aimed at the NDAA and wondered if Gov. Bob McDonnell would veto it. As things turned out, he didn't; he proposed ...
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The Rogers-Ruppersberger bill will come to the floor the week of April 23. It's information sharing provisions are likely to be the crux of the debate on the House side. Today, the Manager's filed a dr...
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OK. I made up the quote, but it is a fair assessment of Professor Eugene Spafford's message to Congress. On Wednesday April 11, Spaf (as he is widely known) gave the invited Frank Howard Distinguished ...
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Last year, Bobby, Larkin, and I released a paper entitled "The Emerging Law of Detention 2.0: The Guantanamo Habeas Cases as Lawmaking." The paper promised to be a kind of living document:
Rather than si...
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Let’s begin with the Tarek Mehanna news.
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I hope you aren't too sick of reading about Abd Al-Rahim Hussein Muhammad Abdu Al Nashiri, 'cuz there's more. No, this isn't from his military commission case.
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Nigeria seems to have just added some state practice to the debate about whether and when an armed conflict exists between a state and a terrorist group. On Tuesday, the Nigerian Army’s Chief of Staff i...
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Published by James Currey (London UK 2011)
Reviewed by Tom Porteous
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This looks like a very interesting event:
The Georgetown Center on National Security and the Law
and the
Journal of National Security Law and Policy
Cordially invite you to a lively discussion of the J...
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After yesterdays motions hearing, Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins issued the following comments:
Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins
Remarks at Guantanamo Bay on 12 April 2012
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All discovery, all the time. We move now to AE53, the defense’s motion for the discovery of information about the resources expended by the government in its investigation. Kammen is up first, and he ...
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Professor Gabriella Blum of Harvard Law School gave a fascinating lecture on Tuesday entitled "The Fog of Victory" on the occasion of her appointment as the Rita E. Hauser Professor of Human Rights and H...
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You probably have been saying to yourself, all morning and afternoon, “when will we ever hear argument on motion AE40, the defense’s request to compel funding for a Yemeni defense investigator?” Your wa...
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Lunch ends, and we return to argue over AE 038 - or, as better known to docket-watchers, the defense’s motion to compel the timely translation of discovery into Arabic. Reyes begins by informing the cour...
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Continuing with his discovery blitz, Judge Pohl turns next to AE 044, a defense motion to compel the production of unredacted classified discovery.
Lt. Cmdr. Stephen Reyes argues for the defense that th...
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Judge Pohl calls the commission back to order at 11:00 am to discuss AE 054 and AE 057--two motions to compel discovery from potential witnesses in Yemen and the U.A.E.
At the in-chambers conference, Ju...
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Having lost the reconsideration motion, the defense then marches onward - nominally, to the defense’s next motion, AE42, its request to extend deadlines to submit a defense theory of the case under MCRE ...
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A light (but interesting) news day.
Wired's David Kravets reports on a potential snag in the prosecution's strategy against Bradley Manning.
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The court next turns to the issue, which it heard a couple of months ago, of whether it has the authority to hear a defense motion to reconsider any decision to accept Rule 505 evidence substitutions. Th...
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