News: Human rights and international law experts condemned the U.S. bombing campaign of boats the Pentagon accuses of engaging in narco-trafficking — and the Trump administration condemned the meeting. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/u... via @NYTimes

Trump's comments have put #Guantanamo trial at risk. Defense attorney Allison Miller says Trump’s remarks "impact our defence." She has formally requested the intelligence behind Trump's claims. www.geo.tv/latest/65571...

Trump’s terror claim about Iran responsibility for the USS Cole (DDG-67) attack could help an accused Osama bin Laden henchman in #Guantanamo walk free again. #NeverForget #TruthMatters ca.news.yahoo.com/trump-terror...

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In a similar case against the Titan Corporation, as well as a lawsuit against two psychologists who contracted with C.I.A. to help devise the agency’s brutal post-9/11 interrogation methods, settlements were reached before there was a trial. #UnjustifiableMeans SERE-ing #torture #TrutnMatters

A defense contractor that supplied #interrogators to #AbuGhraib, where Geoff Miller, from JTF-#GTMO was sent to #Gitmo-ize, is liable for the abuse. The court awarded each of the men $3 million in compensation and another $11 million in punitive damages. #Torture www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/u...

Fourth Circuit upholds damages for Iraqi detainees tortured by military contractor www.courthousenews.com/fourth-circu...

#Guantanamo Bay was meant to imprison terrorists – it may have created them www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Clever bsky.app/profile/ckus...

Resisting from Within — A documentary on #Guantanamo explores the fight against post-9/11 #interrogation practices, focusing on those who resisted from within, exploring moral dilemmas and human consequences of the controversial #torture practices. #TruthMatters www.gofundme.com/f/documentai...

A CIA Medal, a #Torture Scandal, and Jeffrey Epstein open.substack.com/pub/theicema...

Recording #interrogations protects officers from false allegations of coercion or misconduct, creating an undeniable record of what occurred. Prevents #WrongfulConvictions & #FalseConfessions. Ensures an accurate account of the interview. Protects the vulnerable. www.pennlive.com/opinion/2026...

ICE and Border Patrol's rampant racial profiling and blatant disregard for the Constitution puts us all in danger. Tell Congress to hold them accountable at aclu.org/stop_ice_attacks-

NCJFCJ National Conference on Juvenile Justice starts on March 15 in Minneapolis. I’ll be with @innocenceproject.bsky.social speaking about “Science-Based Interviewing: From the Confession Obsession to Information Dominance” #MéndezPrinciples on #EffectiveInterviewing #HIG #Interrogation research

The Trump administration on Friday struggled to defend the Pentagon’s press policy that bars journalists from obtaining any information not explicitly approved for release by Pentagon officials. www.courthousenews.com/federal-judg...

President Trump's remark about Iran and the USS Cole bombing 25 years ago has raised new questions in the longest running death-penalty case at Guantanamo Bay. Jury selection is scheduled to start June 1st. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Latest: I'm hearing that the military judge, defense and prosecution lawyers in this case met in a classified session at the war court's annex in Crystal City, Va., for two days this week. They held open court at Guantanamo Bay last week, then recessed until April. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

JUST IN: A federal judge has barred Gov DeSantis from designating CAIR as a terrorist organization and punish those who associate with the group. “Once again, Florida chooses political posturing over the First Amendment,” Judge Walker writes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Kristi Noem, while governor of South Dakota, supplemented her roughly $130,000 salary by secretly accepting $80,000 donated to a political nonprofit she was affiliated with, records show. She never disclosed this income on federal ethics forms. (Published June 2025)

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

DHS Inspector General Says Kristi Noem’s DHS Has ‘Systematically Obstructed’ Its Work, including in the criminal investigation, which he said had national security implications, was “particularly egregious.”

Hello new followers. I’m John Horgan, a professor of psychology who studies terrorist behavior. Don’t believe anyone who says they know what is going to happen next. Nobody does. Believe the Trump administration least of all. The informed voices are out there. Seek them out.

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This claim struck a particularly false note for me, as well, for the reasons that Mark notes. And because of its seeming gratuitousness. It does raise the question of what is becoming of any remaining AQ “guests” in Iran.

This really struck me as well as I'd tracked this case to some extent. There are Iran hawks who like to play up AQ-Iran ties and I wonder if this line came from them.

Meantime, in Guantánamo’s longest running capital case: Prosecutors want the judge to let them introduce more hearsay testimony at the upcoming trial of a Saudi man who is accused of helping to organize the suicide bombing of the USS Cole in the year 2000. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

Trump: “In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the U.S.S. Cole.” This lacks evidence. Al Qaeda claimed responsibility. Those accused will be tried in Guantanamo. There is no public evidence that Iran was directly responsible for the attack. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/u...

Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office Trump has decimated. One year out of college, 22-Year-Old, w/no apparent national security expertise, Fugate is the DHS official tasked with overseeing the USG main hub for #CVE including an $18M grant program www.propublica.org/article/trum...

ICE officers' use of force and training: ICE retiree sees agency he doesn't recognize “There was never this thirst for numbers that I'm seeing now,” Darius Reeves told the News4 I-Team. “Three thousand arrests per day? That's insanity.” #FLETC surge www.nbcwashington.com/investigatio...

On the ICE training, Marc Brown, a former #FLETC instructor said, "They’re not being adequately trained for what they’re being tasked with. Some of the mistakes you would make in training, now you’re making them in the field." www.rawstory.com/ice-26753443...

Does Trump’s implication of Iran in the USS Cole attack cast reasonable doubt on Guantanamo? “In 2000, they knew and were probably involved with the attack on the USS Cole. Many died. Iranian forces killed and maimed hundreds of American service members in Iraq.” www.counton2.com/news/nationa...

A block from the White House today, a Guantanamo prosecutor asked a Pentagon appeals court to overturn a military judge's torture ruling in the Sept. 11 case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

A Pentagon panel hears arguments today in the 9/11 prosecutor’s effort to resurrect the 2007 interrogations of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. A military judge threw out the statements of a defendant in the case last year as the spoils of CIA torture, isolation and conditioning in the black sites.

#Guantanamo judge wrote it was easy to focus on #torture because it was “so absurdly far outside the norms of what is expected of U.S. custody preceding law enforcement questioning” Adding incommunicado detention is just as egregious as the physical torture. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/29/u...

Al Qaeda bombed the USS Cole a quarter century ago, killed 17 U.S. sailors. The trial of an accused conspirator is less than 100 days away. And the government is still trying to shore up its case. My dispatch on the longest running capital case at Guantánamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

Just checked... Nope, they still haven't hung a portrait of Private Lee at the outpost more than 200 days after they hurriedly rechristened the Army base in Virginia. The epilogue endures. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Seems to me it’s not a good idea to fire people who have unreported derogatory information about you. Then again, “thoughtful” is not a word that comes to mind with these guys. www.cbsnews.com/news/at-leas...

The Trump administration's massive tax and spending law gave $750 million to something called the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers. These are the facilities that train recruits for ICE, US Border Patrol, and US Customs and Border Protection. #FLETC surge. www.npr.org/2026/02/25/n...

Schwank trained new ICE recruits at #FLETC in Glynco, GA - large enough to have its own zip code. It includes 1,600 acres of "classrooms, dormitories, and administrative and logistical support structures," along with a dining hall that can serve thousands of meals. www.usatoday.com/story/news/2...

Under pressure from interrogators, a teen-ager helped send three of his friends to prison for murder for a crime they didn't commit. Learn the story of Tyrone Woodruff and the Buffalo Five: www.newyorker.com/news/america...

Zuley's testimony followed that of former #Guantanamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi, who in November said a team led by Zuley tortured him in the early 2000s until he falsely confessed to planning to attack the CN Tower in Canada. #Torture #FalseConfession nationaltoday.com/us/il/chicag...

Pretrial hearings. The current judge has set a June 1 date for jury selection to begin. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

We've heard that those meetings were held at Camp Echo, a former black site where Mr. Nashiri was held by the CIA. Earlier CSRT hearings were held in a separate place, a trailer, where we could see a portion with the prisoner shackled at the ankle to the floor. Not CIA guys.

The witness and lawyer have been discussing where the personal representative and prisoner met and, suddenly, somebody hit the censorship switch, cut the feed. We see this, hear white noise.

Mr. Bin Amin is gone from Guantanamo, where he had done these drawings. He pleaded guilty in a different case and was returned home. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/18/u...

Good morning from the war court viewing site at Fort Meade. Lawyers and the judge in the USS Cole case are discussing streaming glitches. Yesterday's issue of the feed cutting off the top of tall lawyers' heads has been wrongly described as decapitation. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...

I'm grateful that @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social—the only full-time reporter at Guantánamo—is live-posting court hearings here. Follow her for more! 🧵

Watch this: ICE whistleblower describes an agency that is out-of-control.

Prosecutors Rely on False Testimony 3,735 people in the U.S. have been exonerated after spending a combined 34,704 years in prison for crimes they didn’t commit. Sadly, that number continues to grow every year, leaving thousands of people waiting for justice. legalaidnyc.org/news/wrongfu...