AE98 is Richard Kammen’s topic.  In that motion, Kammen says, he asks to present ex parte materials to the court, which would justify a pending defense request for a mitigation expert.  The Convening Aut...

We are supposed to be talking about AE 107, regarding funding from the Convening Authority.  Richard Kammen seeks money to pay for two persons, who will serve as Defense-Initiated Victim/Survivor Outreac...

To the podium comes defense lawyer Richard Kammen.  His motion (AE 116) seeks evidence regarding a 2002 drone attack, in Yemen, that killed Qaed Salim Al-Harithi----the reported “mastermind” behind the C...

And we’re off.  We commence with AE 115, the defense’s motion to compel production of witness statements taken by Yemeni officials, which were then turned over to the FBI.  LDCR Stephen Reyes stands on A...

Splayed across the front page of the Washington Post this morning is the headline "U.S.

The ongoing rain has not stopped a crowd from gathering at the ELC.  Among them is the accused, Abd Al Rahim Hussayn Muhammad Al-Nashiri---with whom the court wishes to speak about his right to be presen...

A few months ago, Jack posed an interesting question: Whatever happened to the Periodic Review Board (PRB) system for Guantanamo detainees that the president created in his executive order? In March 2011...

AE99 is next on our agenda.  It asks whether, and under what circumstances, Al-Nashiri may waive his right to attend pretrial proceedings in this capital case.  (There are also related motions, including...

Judge Pohl calls our proceedings to order, and notes Al-Nashiri’s absence. That prompts Prosecutor Anthony Mattivi to make his record.  The lawyer asks his witness, our by-now-familiar-from-last-week-bu...

Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins last night released a statement regarding this week's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  It begins as follows: Tomorrow, the military commission convened to try the ch...

There were basically none. No discussion of Guantanamo, of habeas, of the NDAA, of interrogation, of military commissions, of targeted killing---and only the most cursory mention of drone strikes. This i...

Last week I asked whether per se opposition to military commissions was in the GTMO detainees best interests, where their “interests” were defined as “(a) maximizing [the detainees’] procedural rights, a...