Game on.  The parties are seated as Army Col. James L. Pohl, the military judge, ascends the bench.  Four accused are here but one is not: Ammar al-Baluchi.  That means a voluntariness colloquy, and ulti...

It's a chilly little day out at Fort Meade's Smallwood Hall---the closed-circuit television facility where, as per usual, Lawfare will be almost-live blogging pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 case. Sam...

It’s 3:34 p.m. when the gong sounds in the Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom Two.  Its brassy (though of course imaginary) note signals official resumption of the afternoon’s fun, and further legal ...

The stage is set for a key defense challenge, AE008.  After a year and a half, its time to debate this enduring docket item. Doing that will be a job for Walter Ruiz, one of Al-Hawsawi’s attorneys. The t...

We’ve returned from a lunch recess.  So has Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, along with his four co-accused, lawyers for both sides, and the military judge. Tension hangs in the air as the court attempts to question ...

46C is on deck now---at least so far as it relates to the might-get-argued-might-not AE008. In it, Cheryl Bormann asks the court to revisit a related and earlier decision not to compel discovery.  She de...

Will Bin Al Shibh be staying or going?

It’s go time down at Guantanamo. Per the court’s usual practice, all five accused are present for this first day of open proceedings, along with their lawyers---and, it appears, some new ones.  Capt. Tod...

That is the title of a recent essay in International Security by Lucas Kello, a post-doctoral fellow at the Kennedy School at Harvard.  The essay is a rare effort to understand how international relation...

The nearly-singular focus of last week's oral argument in Hatim v. Obama, the counsel access case, was the intrusiveness of JTF-GTMO's genital-area searches. That focus hasn't at all shifted, judging by ...

The two detainees, Saad Muhammad Husayn Qahtani and Hamood Abdull Hamood, are both Saudi nationals, and were transferred to the Saudi government. A total of six Guantanamo detainees have been transferred...