It's Thursday here at Fort Meade's little CCTV hovel---from which a skeleton crew will observe, remotely and in nearly real time, pre-trial motions proceedings in the 9/11 case. Look for dispatches thro...

The Washington Post had an important story yesterday involving the future of the 53 military detainees who remain in U.S.

The appellants in Aamer v. Obama have spent the last month battling the government for a complete copy of recently revised Guantanamo force-feeding protocols, according to a motion filed by the detainees...

We’re back.  What’s next?

In the coming days, I am certain we will see a lot of substantive commentary on the just-released report by the President's Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies: Liberty and Secur...

The curtain is raised once more. Applause surges rapidly at the Smallwood CCTV hovel and then dies down just as rapidly, as lunch comes to an end.  Counsel is Mustafa Al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, Walter Ruiz.  H...

Last night Jack highlighted certain parts of Caroline Krass's answers to the Additional Prehearing Questions that the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence posed to her.

Obviously, there's a lot to say about Monday's decision by Judge Leon granting a preliminary injunction against the NSA's telephone metadata program and then staying that decision pending appeal.

Bormann and Bogdan resume their discussion of procedures governing attorney-detainee meetings.  The former has challenged them; the latter defends them.

Game on.  The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench.  Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi.  That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...

Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote:  “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines."  His point was that only small-minded men refused to re...

It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. Sam...

Caroline Krass had her confirmation hearings today before SSCI to become General Counsel of CIA.  Krass is, in my opinion, wildly qualified for the job, and I hope her confirmation process goes smoothly ...

They say that the lack of information sharing is one of the major exacerbating factors behind cyber-insecurity. So I've decided that Lawfare is going to be entirely transparent about the attacks against ...

It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two.  Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...

The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008.  After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...