Category
Guantanamo Bay
FBI Agents Became CIA Agents During Crucial Black-Site Period, 9/11 Hearings Reveal
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – The latest pretrial session in the Sept. 11 case ended much wher…
November 19, 2021
Lawyers in 9/11 Case Seek Evidence of CIA Interrogators' Psychological “Scars”
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – Lawyers for the Sept. 11 defendants this week asked a military j…
November 8, 2021
Jurors Recommend Clemency After Detainee’s Graphic Account of CIA Torture
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – The tale of how a weed-smoking Baltimore schoolboy became an al …
October 30, 2021
USS Cole Bombing Prosecution Resumes with Focus on Hidden Microphones
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – Defense attorneys for the detainee accused of planning the Octob…
September 22, 2021
New Sept. 11 Judge Halts Final Day of Hearing Over Covid Concerns
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – The new military judge in the Sept. 11 case cancelled the last d…
September 17, 2021
Twenty Years After 9/11 Attacks, a "Patient" Judge is Set to Take Command
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – The largest criminal case in U.S. history resumed this week with…
September 7, 2021
Lawyers Allege “Defective” Arraignment at Start of Latest Guantanamo Case
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – Defense teams for the three Guantanamo Bay detainees charged wit…
August 31, 2021
Guantanamo Detainee Majid Khan Poised for Sentencing and Release After July Hearing
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
The word “closure” has rarely been associated with the military commissions on Guantanam…
August 4, 2021
Military Commissions Resume On Guantanamo Amid Biden Closure Plans and Pandemic Uncertainty
By John Ryan | News & Features, Guantanamo Bay
As court hearings go, the July 13-14 session on the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base was relatively mundane…
July 21, 2021
Next 9/11 Judge Will Inherit Clashes Over Witnesses, New Defender and Covid Safety
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Sketch of Guantanamo courtroom by Janet Hamlin. The January testimony of Dr. James Mitchell, the con…
October 16, 2020
Due Process Violation Claimed Over CIA Electronic Presence in 9/11 Pretrial
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Sketch by Janet Hamlin. Video and audio reaches the courtroom viewing gallery on a 40-second delay t…
February 19, 2020
Lead Lawyer’s Potential Exit From 9/11 Case Sparks Emotional Arguments
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – James Harrington, the 75-year-old fixture of the Sept. 11 case, aske…
February 18, 2020
Lead Defense Lawyer in Sept. 11 Case Asks To Leave, Creating Uncertainty for Path to Trial
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Defense attorney James Harrington. Guantanamo Naval Base, Cuba – One of the lead defense lawyers…
February 11, 2020
CIA's Architect of Brutal Interrogations Claims He Later Held Hands of Accused 9/11 Mastermind
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Sketch by Janet Hamlin. James Mitchell (above) completed his testimony Friday morning before John "B…
January 31, 2020
CIA Psychologist Threatened to Cut Throat of KSM’s Son in Quest to Stop More Attacks
By John Ryan | Guantanamo Bay, News & Features
Sketch by Janet Hamlin. Khalid Shaikh Mohammad (left) confers with his defense team. Guantanamo Nava…
January 27, 2020