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Writing in Salon magazine, Laura Pitter of Human Rights Watch declares that "fundamental procedural protections afforded defendants in federal courts simply do not exist in military commissions. And with...
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Journalist Shane Harris (senior writer for Washingtonian magazine and author of the well-received 2010 book, The Watchers) has written a briefing paper for the Hoover Institution's Task Force on National...
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The D.C. Circuit has batted back Mustafa Ahmed Al Hawsawi's request for a preliminary injunction to stop the new mail search policy at Guantanamo Bay. A per curiam order by a panel consisting of Judges M...
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Here it is--redactions and all. Enjoy!
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Lots to report on Afghanistan today: According to a classified coalition report given to the New York Times, NATO-trained Afghan soldiers are killing the very people who trained them at an rising rate. ...
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The last of the transcripts from the second day of the Al-Nashiri proceedings are available here and here.
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It can be found here (and Wells’s review for Lawfare can be found here.) I liked the book, which uses the dilemmas and compromises of Nuremburg as a lens for Shawcross's empathetic and fair-minded accou...
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CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS
REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY
18 JANUARY 2012
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Published by WW Norton (2011)
Reviewed by Dana Stern Gibber
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United States v. Mahamud (D.
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Former Guantanamo detainee Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak Al Janko has also filed a notice of appeal in the D.C. Circuit concerning a December decision by Judge Richard Leon throwing out his civil suit.
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The brief isn't public yet, but it appears to have been filed in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals.
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I'm back from Ft. Meade, MD after Ben and my little Al-Nashiri liveblogging excursion.
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As we noted at the end of December, Fayiz Mohammed Ahmed Al Kandari filed a motion for rehearing en banc in the D.C. Circuit, asking the court to consider whether Federal Rule of Evidence 1101(e) applies...
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On Friday, December 30, while much of the world, human rights groups, and the press were out on holiday, the State Department without fanfare submitted the fourth U.S. periodic report required under the ...
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Here is the transcript from the second half of yesterday's proceedings and the transcript from this morning. Stay tuned for more...
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By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh
The last issue on the agenda is that of the trial schedule. But first, after securing the defense’s clarification that it is not seeking a speedy trial, Judge Pohl and...
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By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh
Leaving the subject of mail, Judge Pohl announces that the parties have resolved on their own the issue that gave rise to government motion AE014 and that a protectiv...
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By Benjamin Wittes & Ritika Singh
The Al-Nashiri military commission reconvenes this morning at 9:40 after a lengthy and unexplained delay. There are four matters left for Judge Pohl to consider: Issues ...
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While Ben and Ritika continue their live-blogging experiment today, take a look at today's news roundup.
Carol Rosenberg reports on the al Nashiri hearing, focusing on the Rear Adm.
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