Mark Fallon
@markfallon.bsky.social
Director, ClubFed | Former NCIS Special Agent | SES (Ret.) | Author | Keynote Speaker | Expert Witness | Strategic Interviewing • National Security • Ethical Leadership | Films & Television
Latest: The military judge has canceled the three-week October-November pretrial hearing session in the 9/11 case. Only the weeklong Sept. 28 and Dec. 7-18 hearings remain. And the December session may need to deconflict with the USS Cole bombing trial down there at Guantánamo Bay.
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
The case against the men accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
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“There is no legal authority for migrants to be detained at Guantánamo, especially in Camp 6,” said CVT’s Yumna Rizvi to Mohamud Farah in @sahanjournal.bsky.social Read the article: sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
Somali ICE detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for weeks
Three Somali men, including two Minnesota men, describe weekslong detention, aggressive shackling, and constant surveillance at Guantanamo Bay.
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Covered a lot of ground here: On the 9/11 case, the frustrated families and the coming first ever capital trial at Guantánamo Bay. (No, not the trial everybody's been talking about.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
New York Times journalist Carol Rosenberg discusses covering 9-11 plotters being held in Cuba
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Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it. @nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
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Tickets on sale now for the US premiere of #LeavingHotelCalifornia, at the Golden Isles Film Festival in beautiful downtown Brunswick, GA @johnkiriakou.bsky.social #Guantanamo #Torture #NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values #TruthMatters giff25.eventive.org/schedule
Day: 2 Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman. In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
“The military commissions in Guantanamo have been a unique disaster that you can trace back to the whole effort to try to impose military justice — tough justice — led by Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the aftermath of 911,” says national security reporter at ProPublica Tim Golden.
"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."
Thanks to @democracynow.org for inviting me on to talk about American courts and the "war on terror." I wrote about some of these issues for @thenation.com, too. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
Democracy Now!@democracynow.org · 6d ago"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."
Latest: The Pentagon’s classification review team has finally released a lightly redacted version of this huge ruling. We hit the highlights in our story but here’s a link for those who want to wade through it, point out other key points. www.mc.mil/Portals/0/pd...
Carol Rosenberg@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 3w agoBreaking: In a huge decision in the 9/11 case, the military judge has suppressed the so-called "clean team" confession of the lead defendant known as KSM. This comes days after the same judge set a June 2028 trial date, which could now be in doubt if the prosecution decides to appeal that ruling.
This is my contribution to The Times’ wide-ranging coverage this week for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The monument sits between the war court chamber and the office trailer where reporters work on their articles at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
Rejecting the plea agreements was, frankly, stupid and yet another slap in the face of the rule of law. It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
Mark Fallon@markfallon.bsky.social · 2w ago
Breaking: A week after the 9/11 trial judge's big decision that threw out a post-torture confession from KSM, the man of accused of being mastermind of the plot... the prosecution team decides they can go ahead without it, won't appeal. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Prosecutors Won’t Try to Reinstate Key 9/11 Confession Taken After Torture
The military’s lawyers said they feared an appeal could delay the trial of the man accused of masterminding the attacks, which is scheduled to start in mid-2028.
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TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and #Guantánamo Bay youtube.com/shorts/nAqd7...
TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and Guantánamo Bay
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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I cannot believe 25 years have gone by with no accountability, and no support for the men we harmed. That lack of accountability created Donald Trump.
Mark Fallon@markfallon.bsky.social · 2w agoThe lack of accountability set a template. Obama theme of governance without a rear-view mirror. In 2012, he tweeted: "We don't look backwards, we look forward." Career outlooks were bright for top CIA officials who’d been implicated in Bush-era #torture. www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
The lack of accountability set a template. Obama theme of governance without a rear-view mirror. In 2012, he tweeted: "We don't look backwards, we look forward." Career outlooks were bright for top CIA officials who’d been implicated in Bush-era #torture. www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
How U.S. Torture Went Unpunished After 9/11
From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib to Washington’s intelligence elite, the architects and enablers of torture faced little accountability—and often moved up.
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The judge who suppressed KSM’s statements in #Guantanamo did not create this crisis. He inherited it. He did not erase evidence. He confronted the unavoidable consequences of a decision made more than 20 years ago to authorize a system of #torture. www.washingtontimes.com/news/2026/se...
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed ruling exposes torture’s cost in 9/11 case
The recent suppression of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed’s torture-tainted confessions at Guantanamo Bay is far more than a victory for a defendant. It is a victory for the Constitution.
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Nearly 25 years after the attacks, Supreme Court asked to bring closure to 9/11 case Almost two decades in #Guantanamo Bay, the plea agreements were a way to bring closure to the case after it was derailed by the government’s now-infamous #torture program. www.courthousenews.com/nearly-25-ye...
Nearly 25 years after the attacks, Supreme Court asked to bring closure to 9/11 case
As prosecutors continue to face setbacks in the long-running Sept. 11 death penalty case, the justices were asked to revive plea agreements derailed by the former defense secretary.
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The judge said Mr. Dean did not qualify as an expert on terrorist financing or bomb making. The judge said Mr. Dean had a lot to say about Al Qaeda’s history, structure, and objectives "based on his personal observations, not specialized knowledge" -- and can testify as a lay witness on those.