US military commissions resume with new rules in Guantanamo

Today, the US Supreme Court denied review of the case of Guantanamo Bay detainee, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi. Al-Ghizzawi, a Libyan, attempted to have the court rule on the legality of his continued confinement. His lawyer says he has been cleared for release by the US government but he continues to be imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, where he has been detained for nearly eight years.

Meanwhile, military commissions at Guantanamo Bay started up again last week. It's the first time since Congress passed new rules in October governing the commissions. And prosecutors are having to figure out how to implement those new rules.

We're joined by Nusrat Choudhury. She's a staff attorney at the National Security Project at the American Civil Liberties Union and she was in Guantanamo Bay last week to observe the proceedings.