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6/21 Motions Session #5: Are We There Yet?
Suspense: will we proceed with the prosecution’s examination of CAPT Welsh? We wait to find out. Prosecutor Edward Ryan has a few housekeeping matters, one having to do with the long pending AE18---the... -
6/21 Motions Session #4: Much Welsh
The ELC conch passes to the Abaya-clad Cheryl Bormann, lawyer for Walid Bin Attash. She met our still-testifying witness, CAPT Welsh, in the summer of 2011. Before teleporting back to then, however, de... -
6/21 Motions Session #3: Welsh & Ruiz LLP
Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling? Nope. -
6/21 Motions Session #2: Welsh, Connell, and Harrington
The prosecutor Robert Swann returns to the podium; our JTF staffer returns to the witness stand, having run his needed errand. Al-Baluchi, the witness says, just told me that in fact, his teeth had shif... -
Today's Headlines and Commentary
For those wondering how exactly the FBI acquired authorization to use drones for domestic surveillance, the Washington Post's Craig Whitlock has the answer, through some FAA documents released in respons... -
6/21 Motions Session #1: Did Al-Baluchi's Dentist Just Call a Recess?
The commission is called to order. The accused are with us here, save two: Mustafa Al-Hawsawi and Ammar Al-Baluchi. Did the latter two men waive, knowingly and voluntarily, their rights to attend? Afte... -
On Ducks and the D.C. Circuit: A Thought on <em>Hussain</em>
A few years ago, when my then-research assistant Zaahira Wyne and I were trying to analyze what sort of people really made up the Guantanamo population---research that eventually went into both Chapter 3... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: June 21 Session
It is a homecoming of sorts here at Fort Meade. The Manning trial is again on pause; thus your correspondent and scattered press folks have decamped from Burba Cottage and returned to Meade's Smallwood ... -
Jeff Powell on Targeted Killing and Due Process
The following is a guest post from Jeff Powell, a Professor of Law at Duke University School of Law. He twice served in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel, as Deputy Assistant Attorney Gen... -
6/20 Motions Session #4: Who Reads Lawfare, Anyway?
Remember CAPT Thomas Welsh, the Staff Judge Advocate at GTMO? He is our next witness, appears in person, and is questioned by KSM lawyer David Nevin. Welsh had about three months’ experience at the camp... -
6/20 Motions Session #3: The Last of Admiral Woods’s Testimony
Prosecutor Edward Ryan will cross-examine Admiral David Woods, once JTF-GTMO’s commanding officer (whose testimony is relevant, among other things, to the defense’s efforts to dismiss the case on defecti... -
6/20 Motions Session #2: Two Lawyers and One Admiral
Life is restored to our CCTV screen here at Burba Cottage---thus signaling a return to open proceedings. The accused are back in the courtroom. What about our recent Rule 505(h)? There was no cut in t...
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