We return to the ELC courtroom, where prosecutors and defense counsel all are present.  The five accused are absent. Prosecutor Robert Swann is first at the podium; his witness is MAJ Griffin---who test...

The New York Times has this long article about the Noor Khan lawsuit in Britain, in which the son of a man killed in a drone strike in Pakistan has sued the British Foreign Secretary for information abou...

That's the gist of this order, issued today by a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit, in Rimi v. Obama. The detainee, who had been transferred from Guantanamo to Libya in 2006, unsuccessfully sought h...

Although our own coverage of this week's pre-trial proceedings in the 9/11 military commission trial at Guantánamo already covered the issue in some detail, I couldn't help but be taken by Amy Davidson's...

On All Things Considered this evening, NPR's Ari Shapiro ran this story on the closing of Amb.

As is now familiar to everyone, rather difficult questions arise when we discuss the scope of the AUMF, the current scope of "al Qaeda," the meaning of "associated forces," and the circumstances under wh...

AE50, our day's last, is James Connell III’s request to compel the production of three witnesses. The first is Robin Maher, an attorney who helped to develop the ABA’s guidelines on capital cases---a le...

MAJ Sterling Thomas, on behalf of Ammar al-Baluchi, argues AE93---in which Thomas and James Connell III ask the court to grant their client a brief, audiovisual communication.  Ammar al-Baluchi desires t...

AE55 is up next. In it, the defense jointly seeks the release of redacted versions of pleadings containing classified materials.

Ruiz takes a third stab at AE108, first by emphasizing the justification behind his proposal for overnight visits to his client’s detention center: the lawyer needs to determine sleeping patterns, other ...

Lunch is done.  David Nevin notes the absence of co-counsel, Gary Sowards; prosecutors remind us that all five accused remain voluntarily absent. We circle back to AE108, regarding the conditions of con...