The President had this to say about issues of interest to readers of the blog: Obama: There are some things that we haven't gotten done.  I still want to close Guantanamo.  We haven’t been able to get th...

Bugs are Cheryl Bormann’s problem, along with mold and mildew---though perhaps, it seems, less of a problem than before.  She reports that the parties have settled their dispute about sanitary conditions...

James Connell III, lawyer for Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, has our biggest ticket item for the day: he wants a declaration regarding the Constitution’s application to military commission proceedings at Guantanamo...

The Washington Post reports : The Center for Constitutional Rights, a private group which has been deeply involved in detainee issues, praised Tuesday’s decision but said it does not go far enough.

The screen comes alive with James Connell III---who responds to the court’s pending inquiry, regarding material that isn’t subject to the government’s information privilege but that still comes within th...

Our fourth day commences, as expected, with presence matters. Prosecutor Robert Swann discharges what appears to be his recurring duty: establishing that the day’s two no-shows, Mustafa al-Hawsawi and R...

I somehow missed the D.C. Circuit habeas appeal of Guantanamo detainee Abdul Qader Ahmen Hussein, whose case is to be argued today. It appeals this decision from a year ago by U.S. District Judge Reggie ...

[UPDATE: A reader points out that when discussing this subject back in 2011, the question had arisen as to whether this was indeed the best reading of 2339B(d) for the 1996-2004 period.  I had responded ...

In his post on yesterday's decision in (what I think we should all call) Hamdan II, Jack writes "The historical arguments for a conspiracy charge in military commissions under the laws of war, while not ...

Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins has released these remarks regarding proceedings in the 9/11 case, today and yesterday.

We return, and KSM is ready to talk---through a translator. The red-bearded Baluch holds forth about “national security.”  The government told you, Judge Pohl, that you must consider national security, ...

We return refreshed from lunch, and discover that audio has been restored here at Smallwood.  There’s also this bit of news: Walid Bin Attash still isn’t coming to court today.  (There had been some spec...