The world now has extraordinary access to the details of how the United States operates and funds its intelligence agencies, courtesy of Edward Showden and the Washington Post.  This will lead to no good...

For years, the Intelligence Community has fought hard against the disclosure of its budget.  Even the top line total was, for many decades, classified.  Now, thanks to Edward Snowden, the Washington Post...

So writes the D.C. Circuit in this terse per curiam order.  It was issued Monday. Al Warafi, a Yemeni detainee, had claimed in the District Court that he had not joined the Taliban, but instead worked o...

Big news from the Department of Defense this morning: two detainees have been transferred from the Guantanamo detention facility to the government of Algeria.

A few weeks ago, Daniel Klaidman noted in the Daily Beast the existence of a White House memo outlining its proposal to close Guantanamo.

The noncontroversial dispensed with, we move to the controversial: now, the defense’s emergency motion regarding information technology matters.  Maj. Jason Wright, one of KSM’s lawyers, previews it---on...

We pick up with a quick clarifying point about vicarious liability: the idea, the military judge confirms with the Chief Prosecutor, is that the jury must find that a substantive offenses was committed, ...

It’s 1:32 when the commission is once more called to order, and AE120 is teed up in earnest.  That’s the government’s motion to make so-called “minor conforming changes” to the charge sheet, so as to mak...

Let us now discuss, for but a fleeting moment, the ongoing representation status of CDR Walter Ruiz.

We return to our regularly-scheduled programming at the Expeditionary Legal Complex’s Courtroom #2.  Presenting rebuttal argument on AE107 is CDR Walter Ruiz, lawyer for 9/11 accused Mustafa al-Hawsawi. ...

Mustafa al-Hawsawi’s lawyer, CDR Walter Ruiz, stands to argue AE107---a motion to dismiss certain offenses as beyond military commission jurisdiction.

LCDR Kevin Bogucki argues AE105---or would, if the time were right.  But it isn’t, in his opinion. Ramzi Binal Shibh’s attorney thinks AE031, a motion to dismiss for unlawful influence, jibes with AE105,...