A video hookup beams the testimony of our next witness, Principal Deputy Chief Defense Counsel Bryan Broyles, from Rosslyn, Virginia, to Guantanamo’s Expeditionary Legal Complex---and thus also to the Fo...

Sox and Cards gear donned, game faces on, the parties and military judge reconvene.  Lo and behold, four of the five accused are in the courtroom, the sole absentee being Mustafa Al-Hawsawi.  He is so la...

Remember the possibility, raised earlier in the week, of stipulations regarding Al-Hawsawi’s language capability, during the case’s pre-referral phase?  Ruiz brings the matter up once more, having in min...

Lunch is done.  The buffet and fixin’s are put aside here at Smallwood, as attention returns to the CCTV screen, and CDR George Massucco once more in the witness stand.

Ruiz returns to his chat with Massucco, who remains on the stand.  The witness recalls a JTF inquiry into the February search, though he wasn’t involved in it personally.  When Ruiz asks for additional d...

The lights dim at Smallwood.  There’s some grainy imagery here, some white noise there, as the military judge affixes his lapel mic and resumes the pretrial session at Guantanamo.  Four accused are in th...

Big news out of the Second Circuit today: a three-judge panel has affirmed the conviction and life sentence of Ahmed Ghailani, for his role in the U.S.

Almost-live from Maryland's Fort George G. Meade: a third day of CCTV-broadcasted proceedings in United  States v. Mohammed et. al.

The gavel bangs.  Argument on AE164 marches forward, with J. Connell III, Ammar al-Baluchi’s attorney, leading the defense’s broadside against the prohibition on defense motions for reconsideration, with...

Our recess ends; the afternoon’s secrecy-stravaganza resumes.  Now loose ends are tied, as defense counsel debate whether AE73-related motions, which were only moments ago submitted for resolution by the...

Under discussion this afternoon: secrecy rules.  The subject arises first in connection with AE73 D and G, defense bids to clarify or retract, respectively, a prior ruling.  This affirmed the government’...

It’s Connell-time.  Al-Baluchi’s attorney picks up with argument on AE200, and on the nexus between international law and classification law. (Again, his premise is that the military commission’s protect...