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...

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...

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...

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...

Today defense counsel to Mustafa al Hawsawi in United States v. Mohammed et al, the 9/11 case, delivered this letter to President Obama.

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...

Sox and Cards gear donned, game faces on, the parties and military judge reconvene.  Lo and behold, four of the five accused are in the courtroom, the sole absentee being Mustafa Al-Hawsawi.  He is so la...

On Monday night in Cairo, masked men on a motorcycle gunned down a man, a woman and an eight-year-old child as they came out of a wedding. Tuesday morning a 12-year-old girl, who was also critically inju...

Today marks the fourth and final day in this week's pretrial hearing in United States v. Mohammed et. al.  We expect a gavel bang at 9:00, and will, as always, post reports on the proceedings in our "Eve...

A diplomatic disaster for the United States is currently unfolding in Berlin. The revelation that the NSA may have monitored cell phone conversations and text messages of Chancellor Angela Merkel has led...