You've likely heard: Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a Guantanamo detainee facing capital military commission charges, last month mounted a new habeas challenge in the district court for D.C.

I first met Capt. Patrick McCarthy a number of years back when he was the staff judge advocate down at Guantanamo and I visited the site for a day to see the detention facilities there. Capt. McCarthy is...

Two opposite mistakes in an after-the-fact review of a terrorist incident are equally damaging. One is to fail to recognize the powerful difference between foresight and hindsight in evaluating how an in...

We'll hear next from a much-anticipated witness called by the defense: an Army psychiatrist who---as Judge Pohl rules from the bench, overruling defense objections---will testify under a pseudonym after ...

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence last week publicly released a new Intelligence Community Directive (ICD 119) establishing policies for contacts between the media and personnel inside ...

We shuffle things around a bit, first by putting off AE263 temporarily.  It appears that motion, along with related litigation concerning hearsay statements offered by the prosecution, will be postponed ...

Michael Daniel, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator, just published this important post on the White House blog about how and when the government decides to disclose cyber vulnerabilities: When Presid...

Excellent recent posts by Ben and Marty draw attention to the impact that the drawdown in Afghanistan likely will have on GTMO habeas litigation.

After CDR Lockhart lays out the parties' agreed upon schedule for the rest of the afternoon session, the court begins with AE 244, a defense motion to dismiss numerous charges as multiplicitous of other ...

Picking up on the end of Thursday's session, the court will consider multiple defense motions seeking to strike the first aggravator---that the life of one or more persons other than the victim was unlaw...

The morning session starts off with the calling of a pseudonymous witness, Dr. M, to testify on Al-Nashiri's psychological diagnosis and current treatment at Guantanamo Bay. But there's already a problem...