Motions Hearing in the Al-Nashiri Case: February 5 Session
This afternoon, we continue with a second day of almost-live, CCTV-broadcasted hearings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, Lawfare is in the house---Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, that is, where your correspondent follows the action piped in from Guantanamo's Expeditionary Legal Center. (Ben's reporting, on yesterday's session, can be found here.)
We expect a rapping of the gavel at 1 p.m.
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This afternoon, we continue with a second day of almost-live, CCTV-broadcasted hearings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. As always, Lawfare is in the house---Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall, that is, where your correspondent follows the action piped in from Guantanamo's Expeditionary Legal Center. (Ben's reporting, on yesterday's session, can be found here.)
We expect a rapping of the gavel at 1 p.m. And the day's docket looks to be light: it seems we'll hear only from a single defense witness, Dr. Iacopino, who will testify about issues surrounding the government's proposed inquiry into al-Nashiri's competency (AE140). Thereafter---according to recent bench rulings by the court---the case could be abated, pending the competency issue's resolution.
But however the afternoon unfolds, your Lawfare format remains the same: posts in the "Events Coverage" section, with handy-dandy links to those posts below, too.
Rig for resplendent robes and expert testimony, shortly.
2/5 Al-Nashiri Hearing #1: Dr. Iacopino, I Presume
2/5 Al-Nashiri Hearing #2: De-Conflicting Dates
Wells C. Bennett was Managing Editor of Lawfare and a Fellow in National Security Law at the Brookings Institution. Before coming to Brookings, he was an Associate at Arnold & Porter LLP.
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