Lesson learned: The prosecutor took the position that he had to ignore the request we made a full week ago because we didn't style it as a legal motion. We submitted it to the Director of Public Affairs for military commissions at 0754 on April 19.

Also at 0900 tomorrow, a military judge is going give the new $4+ million courtroom a test run with a short law motions hearing in the Hambali case. nytimes.com/2023/07/10/us/… Our trial guide is here.

#Infograph : Yevgeny #Prigozhin .
Our latest The Soufan Center

“Forever Prisoner” Muhammad Rahim, the Last Afghan in #Guantanamo , Eloquently Pleads For His Release - his Periodic Review Board hearing took place last week, but the mainstream media ignored it andyworthington.co.uk/2023/08/22/for…

Concerning optics -- #ISIS has released a new & rare video from #Daraa , in which it claims a series of recent attacks & conducts videoed executions.

After years of covert, minimal operation, this marks a change in public presentation.

Not good news for southern #Syria at all.

The U.S. managed to ensure that Nazis received fair trials at Nuremberg, but it still can't give a handful of suspected terrorists a fair trial at #Guantanamo , even after two decades. More here at 'Law on Film' podcast (minute marker 54:41)
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TSC Founder Ali H. Soufan was interviewed by Harvard International Review and shared insight on how jihadist groups & the #WagnerGroup were able to capitalize on instability and lack of counterterrorism measures in the Sahel to establish influence in #Mali . [3/6]

Read: hir.harvard.edu/the-axis-of-in…

Today, on the UN International Day in Support of Victims of Torture, watch Amnesty International USA's powerful, poignant video about Toffiq al-Bihani, one of 16 men still held at #Guantanamo (out of 30 in total), who have been approved for release, but are still held youtube.com/watch?v=2xfXYO…

What is the Wagner Group?
An informative conversation between my great friend Ali Velshi and brilliant colleague Colin P. Clarke msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat… via @msnbc

The Coast Guard has ended 9/11 legacy operations at Guantánamo Bay, handed off duties to the Navy and Marine Corps. (And made it home in time for Fathers Day.) nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/… nytimes.com/2023/06/16/us/…

Breaking: An appeals panel has imposed limits on what a military judge can do next week in USS Cole hearings — the latest obstacle in the slow moving path to trial in the longest-running war crimes case at Guantanamo Bay.
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It's astonishing and very troubling that a committee purportedly investigating censorship is issuing demands for researchers' records and testimony. The demands are an affront to the freedoms the panel says it wants to protect. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Court in the Hadi al-Iraqi case resumes today with litigation related to his medical care, including his half-dozen spine related surgeries and resulting disabilities.

Secrecy permeates the war court proceedings at Guantánamo Bay like no other American court. We explain how and why.

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Thanks again Karen Greenberg for joining me on @LawonFilm podcast to talk about 'Zero Dark Thirty' & 'The Report'. For more on the films, see the links to excellent commentary by David Cole Jane Mayer Lawrence Wright @SteveCollNY /Film
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At the risk of invoking the curse...
Judges in the Guantanamo cases have scheduled continuous hearings straight through hurricane season -- starting on June 5th until the week before Thanksgiving.

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Thank you, Professor Pildes (Rick Pildes), for highlighting our timely report. Your work, along with Professors Rick Hasen, Ned Foley, Justin Levitt, & Jack Goldsmith, among others, was instrumental. #Election #Emergencies

🚨NEW: Today, Insider is publishing diagrams that show a doomsday tunnel complex underneath Putin's Black Sea palace.

Power and ventilation systems show how long he's been prepping for the worst — existential conflict with the West. w/ Anastasiia Carrier businessinsider.com/revealed-vladi…

Update: The Guantanamo judges have tweaked their court schedules to no longer require simultaneous hearings this summer. Meantime, I'm told, the new $4M court has been fitted with a public gallery although media escorts are forbidden to show us it. nytimes.com/2021/12/29/us/…

So great to talk with Jonathan Hafetz about two films and the US embrace of torture as a necessary evil