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The parties return for the afternoon session and Judge Spath begins by laying out his thinking on the previous motion seeking supervised telephone and Skype calls between Al-Nashiri and his family. In th...
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In August I described a politically palatable AUMF against the Islamic State (IS). What was politically palatable in August is not necessarily politically palatable after three months of air strikes, ho...
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Hey GTMO fans: the estimable Matt Danzer's digests of yesterday's hearing in this capital Guantanamo military commissions case can be found below, and in our "Events Coverage" section.
Keep an eye on th...
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The commission returns from recess and prepares to consider AE 284 and 284L, a defense motion and supplement seeking to allow Al-Nashiri to hold supervised Skype calls with his elderly parents.
Before t...
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Military judge Vance Spath opens Wednesday’s motions proceedings with AE 181G, a defense request to reargue the underlying defense motion to remove the possibility of the death penalty for Al-Nashiri if ...
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It...is...on. At a press briefing today, President Obama declared three legislative priorities for the lame-duck Congress in the weeks ahead. One is to get an AUMF for ISIS:
Second, I'm going to begin en...
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The result is no surprise: Republicans now control both houses of Congress---or, at least, they will come January. I'll leave it to others to dissect how we should understand last night's electoral resul...
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A little programming note here, y'all: today marks the first of a two-day, pre-trial hearing in the military commission case of United States v. Al-Nashiri. But Lawfare unfortunately won't be in the hou...
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Brig. Gen. Mark Martins' remarks on the two-day pre-trial session, which commences today, can be found here. (Note that the hearing will proceed, despite the pendency of the United States' appeal of the...
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A very interesting development today with respect to the ongoing effort to complete the shut-down of US-administered military detention in Afghanistan:
As you may recall, we have long since ceased holdi...
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The wise Walter Pincus had a good piece yesterday in the WP that makes two points: (1) the United States’ fight “against the so-called Islamic State has just begun and will last for years,” and (2) “Iraq...
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The Washington Post last week reported that Syria strongly denounced the decision by Turkey to allow ten Iraqi Kurdish fighters to cross the border from Turkey into the Syrian town of Kobane.
