Earlier, I posted my read on the leaked NSA targeting and minimization procedures. Unsurprisingly, the ACLU has a rather different take.

Edward Snowden is on the move, in Moscow and reportedly heading towards Ecuador, but I will leave coverage of that to the daily press.

In his NDU speech, President Obama asserted that “there is no justification beyond politics for Congress to prevent us from closing a facility that should never have been opened.”  As has become fairly t...

The age of international and transnational terrorism came to prominence in the late 1960s and 70s, and then kicked into high gear in the 1980s, particularly where terrorists were supported by, and someti...

Th Washington Post and New York Times report.The three-count criminal complaint---alleging theft of government property, unauthorized communication of national defense information, and willful communicat...

Here is Brig. Gen. Mark Martins's statement on this week's hearings in United States v. Mohammad et al. It opens: Good afternoon. I am pleased to have the opportunity to speak with you after five d...

The evidence submitted, it falls to Edward Ryan to argue in support of AE18, the prosecution’s request for a written communications order.

Defense re-direct of Welsh follows, and---the day having slogged on---we’ll summarize it ever briefly.

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...

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...

Anything to take up before we get the post-lunch proceedings rolling?  Nope.