James Connell III argues his client’s position with respect to AE200.  That’s the defense’s attempt to have the case thrown out, or the death penalty removed as a punishment option, given an inconsistenc...

Trumpets sound, the flaming gong bangs, and a wave of applause overpowers Smallwood Hall, the CCTV facility at Fort Meade. It is here that we take in the sorta-live broadcast of pretrial proceedings in U...

The prosecutor Clay Trivett will rebut the defense’s opening argument on AE200---its bid to have the 9/11 charges dismissed, or to have the death penalty removed as a sentencing option, in light of restr...

And … we’re back.  Ever briskly, court and counsel discuss a recently reached factual stipulation regarding expected testimony from CDR Jennifer Strazza, whom the defense had sought in connection with se...

We thus turn from legal bins to docketed items, and in particular, to AE200: that’s a defense motion to toss out the charge sheet, in light of alleged inconsistencies between a protective order meant to ...

The beginnings of a Maryland autumn can be discerned outside Fort Meade’s Smallwood Hall.  Inside, the by-now familiar CCTV screen comes to life and displays an empty judicial bench, the Joint Task Force...

Tuesday morning, a three-judge panel of the D.C. Circuit will hear oral arguments in Al Janko v. Gates, an appeal of a damages action brought by a former Guantanamo detainee against various government of...

Here’s a read-out from today’s oral argument in Aamer v.

Tomorrow at 9:30 a.m., D.C. Circuit Judges David S. Tatel and Thomas B. Griffith, and Senior Judge Stephen F. Williams will hear oral arguments in Aamer v.

Over at Security States,  I have this piece up, about the proliferation of city- and state-operated surveillance technologies---and the need to pair collection rules for these technologies with effective...