Newly declassified documents reveal Ammar al-Baluchi was repeatedly slammed against a wall while naked until all trainees received ‘certification’…
Carol Rosenberg Reports from Camp Justice, Guantanamo, 9/11 PreTrial Hearings…
Good morning from Camp Justice. FBI agent Michael Butsch, who interrogated 9/11 defendant Ramzi bin al-Shibh at Guantanamo in 2007, returns to the witness stand today for defense lawyers to question him in open court. The agent was in NYC on 9/11; he’s now based in Connecticut. The 9/11 pretrial hearings are in a lunch […]
Ex-Guantanamo Base Commander Charged with Impeding Death Inquiry, Lying About Affair…
The former commander of Guantánamo Navy base is under arrest, accused of covering up an affair and fight he had with a base worker who soon afterward was found drowned in the bay, according to an indictment obtained by McClatchy. Navy Capt. John “J.R.” Nettleton was removed from his post on Jan. 21, 2015. Ten […]
At Gitmo 9/11 Trial, Prosecutor Gives Lurid Details of CIA Prisons. Defense Says: Not Enough…
A Sept. 11 trial prosecutor on Thursday read aloud ghastly descriptions of what the CIA did to its prisoners: An alleged plot mastermind was taken nude from interrogation to a medical officer, who put fluids up his rectum then returned him nude to interrogation. Some captives were kept like “cowering dogs,” subjected to standing sleep […]
Two Guantánamo Detainees Refused to Leave. Now They’re Stuck There…
Two detainees at the Guantánamo prison who were cleared for release during the Obama administration refused to cooperate with authorities arranging their departures and now can’t leave even if they wanted to because the Trump administration has ceased most prisoner releases. The prison’s commander, Rear Adm. John Ring, disclosed the unusual standoff in remarks to […]
The Innocence of Abu Zubaydah…
I have defended men and women on death row for nearly all of my thirty years as a lawyer, and have represented people caught up in the excesses of the “war on terror” since very shortly after that war was launched. For more than a decade, I have been counsel for Zayn al-Abedin Muhammad Hussein, […]
Civilian Lawyers Defy Judge’s Order to Travel to Guantánamo for War Court Showdown…
A Pentagon shuttle departed for Guantánamo Sunday morning without three civilian lawyers who quit the USS Cole case, setting the stage for a showdown Monday with the military judge who ordered them to the remote U.S. Navy base in Cuba. Veteran death-penalty defense attorney Rick Kammen and colleagues Rosa Eliades and Mary Spears resigned from […]
Torture Lawsuit Against Two CIA Psychologists Delays CIA Waterboarders’ Guantánamo Testimony…
Guantánamo Judge Orders CIA Testimony on Destroyed ‘Black Site’ Videotapes…
A military judge ruled Tuesday that defense attorneys could call former CIA officials as witnesses in their bid to derail the death-penalty trial of the alleged USS Cole bombing plotter, who was waterboarded in the spy agency’s secret prison network, the Black Sites. The one-page ruling by Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the judge, authorized […]
Islamic State Suicide Bomber Was Guantanamo Detainee Paid £1 Million by UK Government…
A British Islamic State suicide bomber was freed from Guantanamo Bay after lobbying by UK’s left-wing government and paid £1 million of taxpayer’s money in compensation. On his return to the UK, the then Labour party Home Secretary David Blunkett insisted: “No one who is returned… will actually be a threat to the security of […]