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The Sept. 11 case is at a crossroads, with the military judge now grappling with a key question that has slowed the path to the someday death penalty trial. A look at a moment of truth confronting the faraway court at Guantanamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/u...
Judge to Decide How Long Torture’s Taint Infected the Sept. 11 Case
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Day 3, week 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings to start at 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Breaking News: The military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Monday reset the start of jury selection to Oct. 19 -- more than 26 years after the suicide bombing in a port in the Middle East killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded dozens of others. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
Judge Again Delays Guantánamo’s First Death-Penalty Terror Trial
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Good morning from the Pentagon streaming site of war court hearings from Guantánamo Bay. The latest news is the judge has reset the trial date in the court’s other death-penalty case. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...
Judge Again Delays Guantánamo’s First Death-Penalty Terror Trial
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Week 2, day 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at GTMO Bay begins at 0900. Follow here for updates.
Good morning from the Pentagon, where I have come to see a feed of Week 2 of the latest pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. In a first, no reporters are on base for a hearing in that particular case. All members of the media left on Saturday, with some court staff.
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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Day 1, week 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba begins at 0900. Follow here for updates.
Prosecutors made what might prove their final attempt to convince a military judge that the CIA’s brutal #torture of the accused 9/11 conspirators at overseas black sites did not permanently taint confessions they made to law enforcement agents in #Guantanamo after they left the agency’s custody.
Gitmo Watch@gitmowatch.bsky.social · 3mo agoDay 5 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay called to order.
Day 4 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay. All four defendants waived right to attend this morning.
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Day 3 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings is expected to begin at 0900.
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Day 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings happening now.
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The first day of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings is scheduled to begin at 0900. Follow here for updates.
The final day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from retired FBI Special Agent Gaudin though part of that is expected to be closed to the public. Follow here for updates.
The 4th day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from retired FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay on this, Day 3, of these pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case. The thrust is whether the 2007 and 2008 interrogations here of defendant Walid bin Attash were voluntary -- untainted by CIA torture -- and can be used against him at his eventual trial.
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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The 3rd day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from former FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
The 2nd day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect a full day of testimony from former FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay where we expect, the new judge in the 9/11 case, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, to hold the first pretrial hearing in the case of 2026. We expect testimony this week from a retired FBI agent who questioned al Qaeda suspects after the attacks. My Who's Who.
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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The 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begin at 0900 today. Follow here for updates
Carol Rosenberg is the empress of the Gitmo press corps, but in her spare time she wrote this deep dive into an instance of the Pentagon’s restoring the names of Confederates to military bases through cynically obvious dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...
The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee
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9/11 Military Commissions called to order at 1300. Judge Lt Col Michael Schrama takes the commissions bench for the first time.
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Today the 9/11 case returns to the Military Commissions courtroom for the first time since January.
Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,
CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"
New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.
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A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.
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Latest: The military flew nine more migrants into the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay yesterday during Defense Secretary Hegseth’s visit with his former Fox colleague Laura Ingraham. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Visits Guantánamo Bay
Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantánamo this week. And now he has entered the Sept. 11 Case fray. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Defense Secretary Hegseth Enters the Sept. 11 Case Fray
The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.
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Men who were once imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay write about the detention of migrants there now: "We are not just survivors of Guantánamo. We are witnesses. And we will not let the world forget." www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants
"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
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![One said it looked “like a Nazi concentration camp." Other descriptions McCall cited include "a dungeon" and "something out of a horror show” with cells resembling "horse stalls." Yet another described the Salt Pit having "a stench like no other, enhanced by [the detainees'] fear." Such perspectives contrast sharply with the rough-but-professional narrative of the black sites that the CIA has presented to the public. Torture program co-architect Bruce Jessen, for instance, said the Salt Pit's "atmosphere was very good… nasty but safe."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nx2hxdrsv3mivqwwvkq7xlqx/bafkreigrzrxo3bakxkaoci2oljovl3dc3754nlyiauypgekinhy7cpoy3e)