The most infamous #WrongfulConviction in Alaska involves the Fairbanks Four, who were wrongfully convicted in the killing of a teenager in 1997. The four Alaska Native men served 18 years in prison each, & were exonerated in 2015 when another man confessed to the killing. www.adn.com/politics/ala...

Justice delayed — 24 years and counting Justice denied — Hambali remains in #Guantanamo, innocent until proven guilty Justice deceived — due to the priority to hide, redact or classify any details about his #torture balidiscovery.com/bali-bomber-...

The Tradecraft of #EffectiveInterviewing at the Wichita Science-Based Interviewing Symposium — with American Nightmare & #LeavingHotelCalifornia. #TruthMatters #PolicingWithVirtue is a step closer to community-embraced policing. #TrustMatters

www.cvt.org/news-coverag... More from #Guantanamo and the legacy of #torture as policy.

Human rights violations against Lithuania for its involvement in CIA secret #torture detention program of #Guantanamo detainee www.echr.coe.int/w/al-nashiri...

European court faults Lithuania over CIA black #torture site tied to USS Cole suspect still being held in #Guantanamo www.courthousenews.com/european-cou...

Lithuania ordered to compensate #Guantanamo detainee in CIA #torture black site case www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-e...

Ah yes. Like the fascists of the 1930s before him, Trump fabricates an enemy to obfuscate the real enemy: fascism.

#Guantánamo’s “legal black hole” remains US headache UK Settlement, A Precedent? “Kafka-esque Regime” with no rules Military Commissions “not designed to be fair” Trump administration rejects plea deal Art as therapy…& potential evidence #ForeverPrison www.justiceinfo.net/en/161224-gu...

Here’s a video of the side event on the US Torture Programs, with a former US Special Rapporteur on #Torture, two former #Guantanamo Bay prisoners, and me — who was responsible for the criminal investigations of those being brought before Military Commissions. #TruthMatters youtu.be/F6kVFiLiD9g?...

Entire proceeding is appalling: plea deals were categorically binding under blackletter law. Only reason case got this far is naked politics & pandering, same dynamics that spawned entire Gitmo miscarriage of justice. Al-Qaeda never posed risk to our nation's values: that harm is all self-inflicted.

#Torture is an act of cowardice It results in corrupted intelligence, tainted evidence, flawed and uninformed decisions, and gross #HumanRights violations #MendezPrinciples on #EffectiveInterviewing provides a roadmap for improved practice - based on law, science and ethics #PolicingWithVirtue

Appreciate the opportunity to present on the US #Torture Program with former UN Special Rapporteur on Torture, with two former #Guantanamo detainees. #LeavingHotelCalifornia #UnjustifiableMeans #TruthMatters #HumanRights #RuleOfLaw

Cancelled: The first week of the August pretrial session in the Bali bombing case. The judge will hold a shortened hearing at Guantanamo Aug. 10-14. The Times guide. www.nytimes.com/2023/07/10/u...

Appreciate the opportunity to participate in the OSCE Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting Session on Safeguards and Accountability in Criminal Justice Procedures—and share my experience’s about the legacy of #Guantanamo, #torture, and the #MendezPrinciples of #EffectiveInterviewing. #TruthMatters

Speaking today at the OSCE Supplemental Human Dimension Meeting in Vienna, Austria on Preventing #Torture and Ill Treatment, on Safeguards and Accountability in Criminal Justice Proceedings.

Got to attend the premier of #LeavingHotelCalifornia at the CampusDoc International Film Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands this weekend. It was great seeing former #Guantanamo #torture victims Mohamedou Slahi, and meet all those in the audience who came out to support the amazing filmmakers.

Tomorrow is UN Intl Day in Support of Victims of #Torture Saturday #LeavingHotelCalifornia: A #Guantanamo Insider Story premiers at CampusDoc in Netherlands Tuesday #MKULTRA Congressional hearings are scheduled My views on #LearnedHelplessness in Newsweek below www.newsweek.com/can-us-shed-...

#MKULTRA - #KUBARK oversight.house.gov/hearing/mind...

Amazing interview of Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan by Jon Stewart on @thedailyshow.com about “Regime Change” & Inside the Trump Presidency” youtu.be/xdmdGTrJ2nI?...

Life (and death) after Guantánamo Bay…

Countdown to the premiere of #LeavingHotelCalifornia in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 27-28. Stop by and see what happens when former #Guantanamo prisoner Mohamedou Slahi - who spent 14 years in GTMO, never charged with a crime - meets with the #NCIS Special Agent who investigated him. #TruthMatters

It’s easy to forget the men released from GTMO given all the crazy news thrown at us every day. But it’s important to remember, as well as the 15 who remain—many uncharged and mostly untried, 25 years later Tariq El Sawah, GTMO Prisoner Sent to Bosnia, Dies at 68 www.nytimes.com/2026/06/18/u...

#LeavingHotelCalifornia: A #Guantanamo Bay Insider Story premieres at the CampusDoc Film Festival-Utrecht, Netherlands on June 27-28. Mohamedou Slahi discusses the #interrogational abuses he was subjected to and I discuss my efforts to stop them. And @johnkiriakou.bsky.social on CIA #torture.

Scoop: My sources tell me that the lead 9/11 case prosecutor Clay Trivett will also become lead prosecutor in the USS Cole case when it goes to trial, scheduled for later this year.

#LeavingHotelCalifornia premiers at the CampusDoc International Film Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 27-28. The audience will hear interviews of Mohamedou Slahi, @johnkiriakou.bsky.social and me about the legacy of #Guantanamo and the impact of #torture on the lives of those involved.

Congratulations to Bradley Geppert and the folks at DS-Compliance on the launch of DS-Investigator, for audio analysis. Bravo Zulu… securitybrief.co.uk/story/dsi-co...

Evidence-Based Policing Symposium — July 9-10 at Wichita State — will include Science-Based Interviewing and the Tradecraft of #EffectiveInterviewing. Don’t miss learning about pockets of excellence in policing. #PolicingWithVirtue is a step closer to community-embraced policing. #TruthMatters

Indications & Warnings www.nytimes.com/2026/06/15/u...

WATCH: Sebastian Gorka has one of the most powerful national security jobs in the White House. For six months, reporter @hannahallam.bsky.social tracked his public statements to understand how national security priorities are changing. Here’s what she learned: propub.li/3SD7H30

#LeavingHotelCalifornia reveals a side of #Guantanamo Bay rarely seen by the public, bringing voices from opposite sides of the prison’s history — with insights from @johnkiriakou.bsky.social. #TruthMatters #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #JusticeMatters

@noellecook.com Because I know you enjoy a good doc...

Leaving Hotel California will premiere at the CampusDoc International Film Festival in Netherlands on June 27-28 - day after International Day in Support of Victims of #Torture. #LeavingHotelCalifornia #Guantanamo @omct.social @johnkiriakou.bsky.social #TruthMatters youtube.com/watch?v=oK64...

And it's left us with Trump, Hegseth, Rubio and a unique confluence of cravenness and evil that is both rotting us morally and weakening us strategically. The solution is robust recommitment to international law, and courageous prosecution of *our* leaders who have committed crimes.

This is a particularly post-Cold-War-American strain of moral failure, where the leaders who understand what's wrong are too timid to take a moral stand and correct it, for fear both of being called weak and of losing de facto [illegal] powers that they might need.

Pete Hegseth wasn’t afraid to share how he really feels about Guantánamo Bay detainees.

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made a jaw-dropping claim about prisoners in Guantanamo Bay that has left onlookers shocked.

#Hegseth: #Guantanamo Bay prisoners ‘should have been executed’ aje.news/im2zev

Hegseth’s visit to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, comes as the Trump administration increases pressure against Cuba’s government.

Updated... Our guide to Guantanamo's longest running capital case, with the latest jury selection date: Oct. 19. I'm hearing there's a plan to pick the jury by Thanksgiving and then start the trial in the new year.

June is #Torture Awareness Month June 26 is International Day in Support of Victims of Torture #LeavingHotelCalifornia will premiere in the Netherlands on June 27-28 #TruthMatters #Guantánamo remains a symbol torture, injustice and oppression. #UnjustifiableMeans #RuleOfLaw matters

At the center of that story is a flawed belief: that coercion, even #torture, could produce truth. And that demonstrating omnipotence over a person would result in truthful outcomes. It cannot and did not. #LearnedHelplessness #TruthMatters www.newsweek.com/can-us-shed-...

Just when you thought Gitmo kangaroo court cld not be more kafkaesque & absurd, along comes only judge in America who doesn’t grasp that death penalty defendant has right to counsel present at all times. Al-Qaeda never posed any risk to our constitutional values: we’re demolishing them ourselves.🤦🏻‍♂️