The commission convenes against at 2:10 pm for a surprise extra argument. Judge Pohl begins by saying that if either party wants to put on the record material from the in-chambers meeting yesterday, the...

Judge Pohl then announces that he wants to switch gears and deal with Rule 505 and closure issues now. The government, he asks prosecutor Joanna Baltes, wants an in camera hearing to talk about whether t...

Before we tell you about the outpouring of love that Lawfare is getting at the Nashiri hearings (stay tuned for that!), we've a bunch of other matters to report. The court now turns to the first of the ...

Yesterday’s speech by CIA General Counsel Stephen Preston has generated criticism from Deborah Pearlstein, on Opinio Juris.

Following his non-resolution of the conflicts issue, Judge Pohl announces a kind of schedule for the hearing. He will, he says, begin with the constitutional issues, then handle discovery issues, then co...

Military Judge Col. James L. Pohl opens the hearing at around 9:10 am announcing that Brig. General Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor for military commissions, has joined the prosecution table.

We’re back in the dark room staring at a wall. The Wall today is playing host to the Al-Nashiri marathon--a three day orgy of pre-trial motions on everything from shackling to the history of conspiracy a...

In earlier posts I’ve written generally about the information sharing provisions of the Lieberman-Collins cybersecurity bill and the McCain bill.  Today I want to continue drilling down in comparing the ...

To the list of significant motions to be argued tomorrow during the motions hearing in Al-Nashiri, add this: the defense’s contention that the charge of conspiracy is beyond the commission’s jurisdiction...

As Raffaela has already noted, the European Court of Human Rights unanimously ruled this morning that Abu Hamza al-Masri and four other wanted terrorism suspects may be extradited from the United Kingdom...