The second of our two monitoring witnesses is Army Col. John Bogdan.  He’s the joint detention group commander at GTMO.  And, like Welsh’s testimony, his remarks will inform the resolution of AE149, the ...

The commission is once more called to order.  Witness testimony on AE149C, and monitoring, beckons---in particular, testimony by Navy CAPT Thomas Welsh.  He’s the Staff Judge Advocate for JTF-GTMO, and s...

This week, Rep. Adam Smith (D-WA) filed two amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act for 2014 (H.R. 1960).  The first, co-sponsored by Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) and James Moran (D-VA), provi...

AE114 is next.  It involves RMC 703(c), and commission procedures for the production of witnesses.  Do these violate the Military Commissions Act, and Al-Nashiri’s constitutional and statutory due proces...

The hearing resumes, with all parties present including the accused.

Your correspondent returns to Fort Meade' Burba Cottage---our usual CCTV venue, Smallwood Hall, being unavailable---to take in another day of piped-in-from-Guantanamo hearings in United States v. Al-Nash...

In an unusual personnel move, the White House announced this afternoon that the President has withdrawn the nomination of Avril Haines to be the Legal Adviser of the State Department and is appointing he...

We resume with reply argument on AE48C.  It comes from Maj Danels, who says the motion is very simple: it asks only for the court to dismiss the charge of conspiracy, period. The prosecution, on the othe...

We return, refreshed, from a longer-than-expected lunch break.

It’s witness time.  Bryan Broyles, Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel for the Military Commissions, is sworn.  We’ll hear from him, on matters relating to monitoring---in particular, AE153.