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8/19 Motions Session #2: One of the Guys Who Questioned Al-Hawsawi
Ruiz rises in connection with his attempt to uncover precisely what FBI interviewers did---and did not---glean about Al-Hawsawi’s facility with English, during a three-day 2007 GTMO interrogation session... -
Today’s Headlines and Commentary
First stop, surveillance. Make that stopover nine hours. The Guardian reports that Glenn Greenwald's partner was detained for the maximum time allowed under the UK's controversial Terrorism Act while en ... -
Chief Prosecutor's Statement on August 19-23 Hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al.
Brigadier General Mark Martins's statement regarding this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. is available here. It opens: Good afternoon. Welcome to what has now officially been mea... -
8/19 Motions Session #1: Housekeeping
The fated hour arrives, and the military judge, Army Col. James Pohl, ascends the bench. Your correspondents hear the starting gun; our week-long hearing commences in earnest. -
Al Baluchi Defense Counsel Statement on Visiting JTF-GTMO's High-Value Detention Facility
Over the weekend, James Connell III, defense counsel to 9/11 co-defendant Ammar Al Baluchi, issued the following statement, regarding his apparently unprecedented August 15th visit to GTMO's high-value d... -
9/11 Case Motions Hearing: August 19 Session
Your Lawfare correspondents are here at the scenic Burba Cottage, located at Fort Meade, ready to provide you almost-live coverage of this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. We'll provi... -
Raha Wala (Human Rights First) Responds on Closing Guantanamo
Raha Wala of Human Rights First has written in with an in-depth response, printed below in full, to my post the other day expressing disappointment in Senators Durbin and Feinstein’s op-ed on closing Gua... -
The NSA, the Washington Post, and the Administration
I cannot decide if I am more annoyed at the Washington Post or more annoyed at the Obama administration for the way this latest cache of Snowden-leaked NSA documents is playing. I have now gone through t... -
The Week That Was: All of Lawfare In One Post
Edward Snowden and the NSA continued to dominate Lawfare this week. Matt mused on how one might measure the value of the NSA surveillance programs. Lawfare hosted a debate between Carrie Cordero and St... -
Reminder: Live Coverage of U.S. v. Mohammed et al. Next Week
Monday at 9 a.m., Lawfare returns to Fort Meade, for a week’s worth of CCTV-broadcasted-from-Guantanamo pre-trial hearings in United States v. Mohammed et al. When we have the docketing order we'll shar... -
Robin Simcox on British Guantanamo Bay Detainee Shaker Aamer
Robin Simcox, a research fellow at the Henry Jackson Society in London, writes in with the following thoughts on the hunger strike currently taking place in the United Kingdom on behalf of Shaker Aamer, ... -
Detainee Challenges Constitutionality of NDAA Transfer Restrictions
Yesterday, Guantanamo detainee Ahmed Adnan Ajam filed a motion for partial summary judgment and for declaratory relief in his habeas suit before the D.C.
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