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9/19 Session #3: The Path Forward, Part One
The Chief Prosecutor swears in our next AE 155-related witness: Wendy Kelly, an attorney and Chief of Operations for the Convening Authority. David Nevin, one of KSM’s lawyers, questions her, first abou... -
9/19 Session #2: "The Dirty Shutdown"
Scott Parr, Branch Chief for Information Technology at the Office of Military Commissions (“OMC”) and the Convening Authority, is on the witness stand. Questioning him is Gary Sowards, one of KSM’s attor... -
9/19 Session #1: Mayberry Wrap-Up
Buckle up, Smallwood CCTV fans; we’re back in session at Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex, Courtroom 2. Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Walid Bin Attash are the only two accused present. The absences... -
9/18 Session #6: Snoopers, Hackers, and Starbucks
The prosecutor Edward Ryan cross-examines the Chief Defense Counsel, and moves, after a few initial questions, to her ethical obligations. Under them, Mayberry must make only a “reasonable effort” to en... -
9/18 Session #5: Winding Up Direct
David Nevin resumes his discussion with the defense’s witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel at the Office of Military Commissions. The pair discuss information technology prob... -
Oral Argument Recap: The Bagram Habeas Cases
Here’s a quick read-out from Tuesday’s oral argument in a trio of cases concerning detainees captured outside of Afghanistan, but eventually transferred to the custody of the U.S. military and held at a ... -
9/18 Session #4: Still More Mayberry
Do other counsel want to talk to Mayberry? One of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s lawyers, David Nevin, does. -
9/18 Session #3: More Mayberry
The morning’s second session picks up where the first left off: with Bin Attash attorney Cheryl Bormann, with her witness, Air Force Col. Karen Mayberry, the Chief Defense Counsel, and with a discussion ... -
9/18 Session #2: the Chief Defense Counsel on IT
Our morning’s litigation commences in earnest with AE155, a defense bid to postpone the pretrial proceedings, for reasons having to do with information technology. (We got a preview of this motion alrea... -
9/18 Session #1: Two Here, Three Not
At 9:03 a.m. the military judge, Army Col. James L. Pohl, ascends the bench. All defense counsel are here, including Walid Bin Attash’s attorney, Cheryl Bormann---who still sounds stuffed up, but report... -
Oral Argument Preview: The Bagram Habeas Petitions
The question before a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit Tuesday morning: can a group of detainees held by the United States at Bagram airfield, in Afghanistan, challenge their detentions by petitioni... -
9/16 Session #2: An Update -- And a Postponement
It appears the morning's recess will push on a bit longer than the court indicated initially. Instead of resuming at noon, court will resume, we are now told, at 2:00 p.m. UPDATE: our proceedings are r...
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