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That's the gist of this statement, made today by Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Ca.), Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence.
Washington—Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Dianne Feinst...
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The FOIA Improvement Act of 2014 (S.2520) (“FIA”) sets out to make various tweaks to a key federal access to information statute, the Freedom of Information Act (“FOIA”).
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The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has granted the government’s motion to dismiss Fawzi Khalid Abdullah Fahad Al Odah’s petition for a writ of habeas corpus and declaratory judgment in ...
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If press accounts are correct, we will soon have the long-awaited Executive Summary of the Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the CIA detention program. The report itself, which has not been submit...
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CIA discovery---the subject of Judge Pohl’s ruling in AE120C, and a subsequent order on reconsideration---is still before us. In motion AE120BB, the defense seeks a timeline for getting its hands on such...
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And lo, defense motion AE120S is before us.
In it, the defense moves to compel production of an index of outstanding and denied discovery. But its not just any discovery we're talking about, as Capt. Da...
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Not too long after lunch’s conclusion, court and counsel confront the question: will Judge Spath recuse himself from service as presiding judge, having served on the case for only a few weeks?
Nope. Exp...
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We continue with Learned Counsel Richard Kammen’s questioning of Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the case’s new and recently detailed military judge.
The defense has asked Judge Spath to recuse himself, giv...
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The scene on the grainy Fort Meade screen is different: there’s a new judge.
Consistent with a recent and abrupt change-up in the case, the judicial bench is filled today not by Army Col. James Pohl, bu...
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Today your correspondent returns to Fort Meade, to take in CCTV-broadcasted, pre-trial hearings in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. The hearing gets underway at Guantanamo at...
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Last night, Wells posted a statement by Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins about the weeklong Nashiri hearing getting under way today at Guantanamo.
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David Remes, an attorney representing Guantanamo detainees--and, in particular, co-counsel for the petitioner in Hatim--writes in with this comment on Friday's ruling in that case from the D.C. Circuit:
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