It is a homecoming of sorts here at Fort Meade.  The Manning trial is again on pause; thus your correspondent and scattered press folks have decamped from Burba Cottage and returned to Meade's Smallwood ...

The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law.  He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen...

Prosecutor Edward Ryan will cross-examine Admiral David Woods, once JTF-GTMO’s commanding officer (whose testimony is relevant, among other things, to the defense’s efforts to dismiss the case on defecti...

Life is restored to our CCTV screen here at Burba Cottage---thus signaling a return to open proceedings.  The accused are back in the courtroom.  What about our recent Rule 505(h)?  There was no cut in t...

As the Supreme Court's October 2012 Term enters its climactic closing week, I've been thinking a lot about the most important national security decision of the Term--the 5-4 February 26 decision in <

We would hear the gavel bang, but there doesn’t appear to be a gavel inside the Expeditionary Legal Complex courtroom.  At any rate, the military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, ascends the bench and calls ...

At approximately 0900, Lawfare will continue its coverage of pretrial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission case.

Those who follow my blog posts devoutly (both of you :-)) will be sad to learn that I will be off-line from now until the July 4th holiday.  Of course, as with everything I write about, the underlying re...

Crackles can be heard as lapel mics are adjusted and our proceedings are called back to order.  A cell phone detection alert in the courtroom caused our most recent technical outage.  Judge Pohl asks all...

We return from lunch curious about whether video teleconference issues have been resolved.  That would allow us to hear from Admiral David Woods, former commanding officer at GTMO, once again.  It turns ...

Our proceedings resume, and all wonder: do the machines work? They may soon, as the commission gives the technical folks until 1300 to resolve any outstanding issues. We’ll thus work on some other odds...

Technical snags resolved---or, at least worked around temporarily---we return to J. Connell III’s examination of Admiral Woods.

Rear Admiral David Woods appears now, by video teleconference.  J. Connell III, Ammar al-Baluchi’s lawyer, questions Woods in connection with AE008, AE18, and AE32---motions to dismiss for defective refe...

A lawnmower can be heard outside here at Burba, as the CCTV screen comes alive.  The military judge takes the bench, and the commission is called to order.  All five accused are in the house. Our first o...

Despite the lack of any hearings in the Bradley Manning trial today, your correspondents are still working out of Burba Cottage at Fort Meade for our third day of CCTV-broadcasted coverage of pre-trial h...

The following is a guest post by Susan Landau, author of Surveillance or Security? The Risks Posed by New Wiretapping Technologies.