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I haven't watched this yet. Will publish thoughts on it after I have done so---if I have any. In the meantime, here are Josh Gerstein's from Politico:
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I've been thinking about the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch reports in the context of my Meta-Study of Drone Strike Casualties from this summer, in which I examined the different met...
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Odds and ends are batted around, as some motions are deemed moot, and others are put off until the case’s December sitting. The whittling down takes us eventually to AE158, and to Ruiz’s bid to prevent ...
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Next is AE175. It is perhaps the prosecution’s most hotly anticipated item, and for good reason. The motion asks the military judge to enter the prosecution’s proposed trial scheduling order. Among ot...
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White House counterterrorism adviser Lisa Monaco has a piece in USA Today on NSA surveillance matters. The key paragraph:
All three branches of government play a role in overseeing our intelligence activ...
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We’re back from lunch. How shall we proceed?
The Chief Prosecutor, Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, proposes beginning with a motion to compel, AE167, before moving on to, among other things, argument on AE120...
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Many different motions get batted around during the pre-lunch period, but only two take up substantial argument time. (The remainder---among other things, AE120, regarding the prosecution’s proposed cha...
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In our next item, AE149, the defense seeks the return of computer hard drives and DVDs. These contain information---discovery and materials KSM and company prepared themselves--- generated during the ol...
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Today defense counsel to Mustafa al Hawsawi in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 case, delivered this letter to President Obama.
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A video hookup beams the testimony of our next witness, Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel Bryan Broyles, from Rosslyn, Virginia, to Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex---and thus also to the Fo...
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The Guardian reports that the NSA monitored the calls of 35 world leaders, according to classified documents leaked by Edward Snowden. An unnamed United States official reportedly handed the Agency 200 p...