Daniel Klaidman, author of the indispensible Kill or Capture (providing an inside glimpse into the evolution of the Obama administration's approach to counterterrorism in its first few years), today post...

Judge Pohl is now ready to rule. As to Dr. Crosby, he says, the limitations placed on her by JTF-GTMO, to the extent they conflict with her best professional judgment, are unreasonable. The Convening Au...

We're back---live (sort of) from Guantanamo (sort of). It's Monday at Fort Meade, and that means it's time to open a multi-day motions hearing in the Nashiri military commission. You remember Abd al Rahi...

The last motion of the day is AO135, a defense motion to allow a doctor named Sondra Crosby to do an examination of Nashiri without either guards present or the patient shackled. Reyes explains that she’...

Break is over and Judge Pohl clearly hopes to resolve a group of motions before day’s end. The trouble is that these motions are all connected in a weird kind of string and he can’t resolve one without t...

Next stop is AO140, the government’s motion for a competency board to examine Nashiri as a consequence of his previous colloquies with Judge Pohl. CDR Andrea Lockhart explains that under Rule 706, such ...

We know Judge Pohl wants to hear argument on two motions this afternoon.  Now he tells us which ones: AE99D and AE140. The pair are interrelated, and were both filed by the prosecution. The government t...

It’s 1:00 pm and we’re back. Addressing a defense claim from earlier, Judge Pohl makes clear for the record that he would never require defense attorneys to violate applicable rules of professional resp...

I’d like to briefly address two articles in the news today on U.S.

The French military intervention in Mali continues: Islamist rebels have ceded control of most of Mali's major cities but have likely taken refuge in the country's rugged mountains and caves. As a resul...

It’s 9:01 am, and Military Judge James Pohl enters the courtroom, resplendent in his black robes, judicial authority emanating from his very being. The first order of business is AE149, which the defens...