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Every major media outlet is reporting a bloodbath in Kiev. Fighting broke out wit -
Al-Darbi Arraignment Hearing #3: About The Deal
Life is the maximum possible penalty for the offenses charged, but Al-Darbi has entered into a pre-trial agreement---which the court now reviews with prosecution, defense, and accused. Again, we’ll exci... -
Al-Darbi Arraignment #2: Nuts and Bolts
With Al-Darbi’s guilty plea entered, we turn to the nuts and bolts for pleas under the Military Commissions Act and implementing rules---of which there are many. Given that numerosity, we’ll summarize t... -
Al-Darbi Arraignment #1: A Guilty Plea
The image is different on the Fort Meade screen: we see the rarely-used bench, inside Courtroom One at Guantanamo. (The 9/11 and Al-Nashiri cases, as y’all now, are conducted in Courtroom Two.) The mil... -
Al-Darbi Arraignment Hearing
Lawfare returns to Fort Meade's storied CCTV outpost, this time for arraignment in the Guantanamo military commission case of United States v. Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi. Along with the usual ar... -
David Miranda Decision Gives Broad Scope to UK Detention Authority
As I noted in an earlier post, the UK High Court in an opinion by Lord Justice John Laws dismissed David Miranda’s suit challenging his detention by the Metropolitan Police at London’s Heathrow Airport o... -
New America Foundation Event on "The Ever-Falling Cost of Surveillance"
Haven't watched this yet, but it looks very interesting: PARTICIPANTS Moderator Jennifer Valentino-DeVries Reporter, Wall Street Journal @jenvalentino Featured Speakers Kevin Bankston Policy Director,... -
2/19 Motions Session #8: More Jury Business
Our day concludes with a debate over AE173. -
2/19 Motions Session #7: Picking the Pool
n AE172, Richard Kammen challenges the Convening Authority’s power to select members of the military commission, come trial-time. (This incorporates some arguments from another filing, AE117, regarding ... -
2/19 Motions Session #6: Things Limburg, Part Two
Our prior motion challenged one charge relating to the attack on the Limburg---hazarding a vessel---and its status under international law. Our next one, AE174, takes a somewhat different tack. It compr... -
2/19 Motions Session #5: Things Limburg, Part One
It's boat time. Recall that Al-Nashiri is charged with playing a role in the attack on the M/V Limburg, a French-flagged oil tanker, in Yemen; the episode resulted in the death of a Bulgarian national, ... -
Al-Nashiri Motions Hearing: February 19 Session
Your correspondent returns to the Fort Meade CCTV outpost, to take in almost-live broadcasts of the day's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri. A little after 0900, we learn the answer to an important...
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