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More on the Amnesty and Human Rights Watch Reports
Over at Security States today, Ken and I have a piece adapted in part from my post of Wednesday (to which Amnesty International responds here) on the recent Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch r... -
Amnesty International Responds
Avner Gidron, senior policy adviser with Amnesty International, responds to my discussion of Amnesty's new report on drone strikes in Pakistan: Perhaps it is not surprising that Benjamin Wittes disagrees... -
10/24 Motions Session #4: Odds and Ends
Remember the possibility, raised earlier in the week, of stipulations regarding Al-Hawsawi’s language capability, during the case’s pre-referral phase? Ruiz brings the matter up once more, having in min... -
10/24 Motions Session #3: More Massucco
Lunch is done. The buffet and fixin’s are put aside here at Smallwood, as attention returns to the CCTV screen, and CDR George Massucco once more in the witness stand. -
Reforming the NSA Surveillance Programs – The Testimony I Would Have Given
The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence was to have had a hearing today on proposed reforms to the NSA surveillance programs. I was invited as a witness on a panel with Steve Bradbury and S... -
10/24 #2: Massucco, On Direct and Cross
Ruiz returns to his chat with Massucco, who remains on the stand. The witness recalls a JTF inquiry into the February search, though he wasn’t involved in it personally. When Ruiz asks for additional d... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
President Obama met with Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif at the White House yesterday. Among other things, the pair talked about US drone strikes along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, and Prime Mi... -
10/24 Motions Session #1: Those Best Situated to Testify About a Search of Al-Hawsawi's Cell
The lights dim at Smallwood. There’s some grainy imagery here, some white noise there, as the military judge affixes his lapel mic and resumes the pretrial session at Guantanamo. Four accused are in th... -
Second Circuit Affirms District Court Judgment in Ghailani
Big news out of the Second Circuit today: a three-judge panel has affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ahmed Ghailani, for his role in the U.S. -
9/11 Case, October Session: Statement of the Chief Prosecutor
In advance of this week's hearings in the military commission case United States v. Mohammed et al, Brigadier General Mark Martins, Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions, delivered the attached re... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: October 24 Session
Almost-live from Maryland's Fort George G. Meade: a third day of CCTV-broadcasted proceedings in United States v. Mohammed et. al. -
Speaking the Law: Chapter 3
The Hoover Institution has released Chapter 3 of our serialized book: Speaking the Law: The Obama Administration’s Addresses on National Security Law. The Introduction and Chapter 1 came out in March.
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