Just in from the Congressional Research Service, this report compares the rights of defendants tried in military commissions to those tried in federal criminal court. Presumably because of the commenceme...

Bobby joined Charlie Savage and Jack Healy in querying here whether the U.S. Government might consider asking the Iraqis to extradite Lebanese national Ali Musa Daqduq to the United States.

A quick note updating readers on the progress of the draft NDAA FY'13:  Chairman McKeon's bill passed HASC last night in the wee hours.  Next stop: the floor, where we are likely to see, among other thin...

I have now read the new Seton Hall report to which I linked earlier and I have to say: I am perplexed. The report's thesis, in a nutshell, seems to boil down to two propositions: that the D.C. Circuit's...

Yeesh.  Yesterday I noted that Chairman McKeon's NDAA draft includes a "Daqduq rule" -- i.e., a provision requiring the Defense Department to notify Congress before transferring certain detainees held at...

HASC Chairman Buck McKeon today released a draft NDAA for FY '13, which will head to the full committee for markup on the 9th.  The text of the bill as it currently stands is posted here, McKeon's announ...

Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins gave the following statement to the press this morning: Chief Prosecutor Mark Martins Remarks at Guantanamo Bay 6 May 2012

The defense’s question-and-answer session is finally done. When asked by the court, prosecutor Mark Martins quickly waives any challenge to the judge from the prosecution’s side. There’s a quick legal di...

It’s nearly 5:00 pm when the court reconvenes, and everyone is exhausted. The day has been long and contentious, and we are not even 40 percent of the way through the questioning of the judge. Fortunatel...

Mohammed’s lawyer naturally isn’t the only one with questions for the court. Under the rules, each defendant is entitled to ask questions, and by the looks of it, every defense attorney in the courtroom ...

We have come now to the part of the hearing where the lawyers get to question Judge Pohl to see if they want to move to disqualify him. This turns into quite a marathon. Each of the defendant's legal tea...