ACLU just had a conference call on today’s Gitmo announcement with, among others, Razmi bin al-Shibh’s civilian defense attorney, Tom Durkin, and Rahim al-Nashiri’s defense attorney, Nancy Hollander. Both had important details about their clients’ defense. I asked Durkin about the status of al-Shibh’s competency hearings. Since the government has been trying to refuse defense [...]

Michael Isikoff asked one of the key questions about the conduct of KSM’s trial in a civilian court: whether or not he would be able to enter evidence of his torture into the trial. Holder basically answered–though he didn’t say it explicitly–that the charges and the prosecutions evidence will be designed such that the evidence [...]

Starts by highlighting 9/11: “Just over eight years ago, … deadliest terror attacks we’ve ever seen.”  Then brings up USS Cole. Today we announce a step forward in bringing those responsible for 9/11 attacks and Cole. KSM, bin Attash, bin al-Shib, Ali, Hawsawi. Those prceedings stayed since Feb. Case against alleged mastermind withdrawn in Feb. [...]

A second working thread on the EFF documents.

KSM will be moved to NY for trial.

Update: Here’s the Vaughn Index so you can see what DOJ claimed it was handing over. I’m just now getting to reading the documents from the EFF FOIA. The two sets of documents are: Draft legislation to amend FISA Correspondence about amendinng FISA MadDog and Jim White have a bunch of comments on the documents [...]

Remember the OPR Report–the one that was due done about 8 months ago? The one that showed how John Yoo’s bad lawyer contributed to torture? Whatever happened to that? The Alliance for Justice and Credo are doing a petition today to pressure Eric Holder to release the report. The Department of Justice has been investigating [...]

In what can only be described as a curious filing, the US Government, through the DOJ has submitted a pleading to the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in the previously terminated appeal originally filed in 2006. The filing seeks to correct false statements previously made by the government in claiming state secrets dismissal of the al-Haramain case.

Our war machine–being sent to war to protect oil supplies–keeps using those oil supplies at an increasing rate.

A short collection of Crazy Pete Hoekstra’s most egregious lies shows that his demagoging of the Fort Hood attack fits into his larger pattern–and ought to warn journalists about treating anything he says seriously.