Earlier today, numerous Israeli English-language media outlets (Times of Israel, Haaretz) picked up Bulgarian news stories that identified the Bulgarian suicide bomber as Mehdi Ghezali, a 33-year old Swe...

The Chief Prosecutor's full statement follows below: CHIEF PROSECUTOR MARK MARTINS REMARKS AT GUANTANAMO BAY 19 JULY 2012

We turn to the day’s final motion, AE97, regarding the defense’s request to compel the timely translation of documents into Arabic for Al-Nashiri.  The motion is brand-spanking new; the defense filed it ...

Again it is Reyes for the defense.  His subject?  The Convening Authority, the Constitution’s Appointments Clause, and the defense’s motion to dismiss on Appointments Clause grounds (AE87).  The Conveni...

Defense attorney Lt. Cdr. Stephen Reyes is up first for AE86---the motion to withdraw the charges because of an improper referral by the Convening Authority.  The issue is this, he says: ordinarily, the ...

Judge Pohl bids good morning to our Guantanamo courtroom audience (and thus, indirectly, to those of us in the CCTV facility cheap seats).  But wait: he’s not yet attired in his customary, authority-eman...

Coming to you live from Guantanamo, via Fort Meade CCTV: the third day of the motions session in United States v. Al-Nashiri.  As before, we'll have blog posts up in the "Events Coverage" section, with l...

Military Commissions Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins released a statement following the completion of yesterday's hearing in United States v. Al-Nashiri.

It's turned out to be a very big news day in national security litigation land... In addition to the extensive coverage of Aulaqi v. Panetta (to which I hope to add some thoughts of my own later tonight)...

From Guantanamo, this: today's proceedings will be 100% closed, and recess immediately afterwards.  Open proceedings will resume tomorrow.

That's the word from the technical folks here at Fort Meade, anyway.   The hearing reportedly is underway, as of ten minutes ago - but, as expected, the topic under discussion is classified discovery.   ...

Ben already posted last week about the new battle a-brewing over the "Memorandum of Understanding" (MOU) that the Department of Justice is apparently requiring counsel in the Guantanamo habeas cases to s...