Back in early September, I discussed Germany’s deep concern about allegations that the United States had been conducting surveillance on foreign leaders’ email and phone conversations.  At the time, Germ...

...to my revised meta-study of drone strike casualties. Ritika Singh's updated meta-study of drone strike casualties reaches exactly the right conclusion: the more we hear from non-government sources, t...

Louise Arbour, president of the International Crisis Group, delivered a very powerful critique last week of existing doctrines and frameworks for promoting international justice, humanitarian protection,...

In what could be a consequential move, federal prosecutors this week informed a man accused of providing material support to the Islamic Jihad Union ("IJU") that they intend to "offer into evidence or ot...

Not to be outdone by Amnesty International, which responded earlier to my post on reports by Amenesty and Human Rights Watch, Letta Taylor of Human Rights Watch writes in with the following response as w...

Here 'tis.  The remarks of the Chief Prosecutor begin as follows: Good evening. This week, the Military Commission convened to try the charges against Khalid Shaikh Mohammad, Walid Muhammad Salih Mu...

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:

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...

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 ...

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...