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• Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings

  Pentagon won’t slow 9/11 death penalty filings

  A senior Pentagon official told defense lawyers to write him by Monday on why the Sept. 11 mass murder file should not go forward as a death-penalty case.

• Defenders seek 9/11 trial delay, blame Guantánamo legal mail dispute

  Defenders seek 9/11 trial delay, blame Guantánamo legal mail dispute

  This time, Pentagon defense lawyers are citing a new Guantánamo prison camp controversy involving inspection of confidential mail in their request for a delay in the Sept. 11 mass murder case.

• Military lawyers blast Guantánamo mail search as violating rights, ethics

  Military lawyers blast Guantánamo mail search as violating rights, ethics

  Military lawyers for Guantánamo detainees who could someday be put to death are accusing the new prison commander of censoring protected attorney-client documents, raising a new legal controversy that spotlights ongoing concern about the fairness of possible military trials.

• Transparency a goal not yet reached by Pentagon's new war court website

  Transparency a goal not yet reached by Pentagon's new war court website

  The website was unveiled last month to rehabilitate the reputation of the Guantanamo war court. So far, it's a hodgepodge of secrecy. But a review of the content has found that it pointedly leaves out some of the key controversies that have bedeviled the war crimes trials, from allegations of torture to a comparison of the Seminole Indian tribe to al Qaida.

• Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

  Alleged bomber's lawyer wants to question Yemeni leader

  The motion to depose Ali Abdullah Saleh was under seal at the Pentagon Tuesday; the Yemeni president is in the United States recovering from burns suffered in an ‘Arab Spring’ explosion at his presidential compound in Sana’a.