Construction has begun on the $60 million temporary UFC ring at the White House.

I have so many questions. F.B.I. Arrests C.I.A. Official With $40 Million in Gold Bars in His Home www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

“The court papers do not indicate why Mr. Rush appears to have kept so much gold, and $2 million in U.S. currency, in his home, or what work project would have required him to amass such wealth.” Clearly it was his own personal anti-weaponization fund. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

What could possibly go wrong? Shakespeare’s Dick the Butcher from Henry VI comes to mind: “The first thing we do is let’s kill all the lawyers.” www.military.com/pete-hegseth...

No matter how states try to spin it, intentional discrimination against Black voters is still illegal — and we'll keep fighting it.

The Trump administration wants to roll out a nondisclosure agreement that would bar federal employees from sharing internal government information, citing the need to stop leaks to media organizations. Lawyers representing federal workers said it could be challenged on First Amendment grounds.

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...

Three Men Are Exonerated in Philadelphia After 28 Years of Wrongful Conviction innocenceproject.org/news/philade...

Abrego Garcia was erroneously deported to El Salvador last year due to a clerical error.

The Trump administration continues to try to weaponize immigration law against Mahmoud Khalil, so we need them to know that the world is watching. Add your name to our petition to the Board of Immigration Appeals demanding they re-open and terminate the sham immigration case against Mahmoud.

He’s owed nothing but will sadly get millions, because we are led by depraved men. Guantanamo detainees w/no evidence to convict them were released w/nothing into countries they never knew and societies that moved on. We caused them harm. They got nothing, because we are led by depraved men.

Following the money: I was trying to figure out an aspect of funding for the Guantanamo war court and came across this overly optimistic portion of the Pentagon comptroller's request for FY 2027.

PRE-trial hearings scheduled in #Guantanamo for those accused of the USS Cole attack—which occurred in 2000! -Justice delayed -Justice denies -Justice deceived The legacy of #torture on the #RuleOfLaw www.war.gov/News/Advisor...

Thomas Massie's Defeat to Trump-Backed Ed Gallrein Speaks Directly to America's Moral Decline

Also: this report shouldn't be secret at all. Judge Cannon reviewed it during the now-abandoned prosecution of Trump for hoarding classified docs at Mar-a-Lago. As a result, it's a judicial document subject to a constitutional and common law right of access. That it's still secret is a scandal.

In #Guantanamo, PRE-trial hearings continue for those subjected to #torture… www.war.gov/News/Advisor...

The Media Individualism Complex is shaped by embodied, personal interests & private wealth—thrives on & strategically invokes notions of benevolence, fame, shame, charisma, reputation, celebrity, propriety, exclusivity, courage, genius, and other individually possessed and performed forms of power.

In a new piece for our Reconstructing Free Expression series, @mikeananny.bsky.social writes about the “Media Industrial Complex”—our current media environment shaped and driven by powerful individuals—and how we can move towards a media environment in line with the public interest.

The profitable manipulation of minds — by @knightcolumbia.org -celebrity influencers -billionaires owners/celebrity CEOs -critics, intellectuals -personalized platforms & chatbots -news coverage that purposefully blends media figures’ work and personae. knightcolumbia.org/blog/is-indi...

1/3 Another profoundly disturbing story abt Trump weaponization of prosecutorial power for naked political purposes. We need give in the machine for prosecutors to do jobs—but when prosecutorial discretion is abused, our careening criminal legal system goes off the rails. Meanwhile, in Oregon, a

Summer recess has come early to the war court at Guantanamo Bay. I round up the cancellations and what to watch in this posting here: www.linkedin.com/posts/carolr...

The cancellation order has been published. The 9/11 case has four more sets of pretrial hearings across eight weeks this 25th anniversary year. If the USS Cole case trial starts on Oct. 19, as ordered, there may have to be night court at Guantánamo Bay

Cuba accuses US of fabrication after Axios report alleging drone threat - www.reuters.com/world/americ...

I spoke with the #LeavingHotelCalifornia filmmakers about what it was like working undercover Inside the Real #NCIS, buying elephant tusks and cheetah skins in Kenya, in anti-poaching and narcotic suppression operations.

I spoke with the #LeavingHotelCalifornia filmmakers about what it is like Inside the Real #NCIS, and #Guantanamo Bay in the 90’s during Operation Sea Signal, with the motto “Care for Migrants”

Justice and human rights should never be forgotten, no matter how much time has passed.

Trump’s foreign policy is not strength. It is submission dressed up as dominance: hostile toward allies, deferential toward adversaries, and corrosive to American credibility. Trump is an inherently weak man, and our enemies know it.

Update: I’m told the military judge has canceled the June and July pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. He had signaled his intent to do this to focus on the admissibility of three key confessions, a crossroads moment for the capital case. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...

FBI offers $200,000 reward to catch ex-Air Force specialist wanted on espionage charges in Iran apnews.com/article/moni...

US plans to indict Cuba's Raul Castro, US DOJ official says - www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

Please repost: I have 3 @erc.europa.eu funded positions available on the neurocognitive decision architecture underpinning use/rejection of coercive interrogation practices using #fNIRS #hyperscanning and naturalistic #cognition #psychskyence #neuroskyence details via my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui...

Why #Guantanamo Still Matters #LeavingHotelCalifornia — A Documentary in the Making The legacy of #GTMO and #torture as policy Perpetual hearings where justice is delayed, justice is denied and justice is deceived, decades after the USS Cole and 9/11 attacks #RuleOfLaw #HumanRights #TruthMatters

The judge, Army Col. Matthew Fitzgerald, described the prisoner like this: "A man in his sixties living a sedentary lifestyle in an austere environment for over two decades in pretrial detention."

The judge ordered, among other things, a geriatric evaluation of the prisoner, who is 61 and has been in U.S. custody since 2002. Mr. Nashiri was so brutally treated and isolated by the C.I.A. that his subsequent confessions at Guantánamo cannot be used against him. He has PTSD. Related reading:

Scoop: The judge in the USS Cole bombing case has ordered a physical health assessment at Guantánamo Bay of the accused plotter, Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, to determine the prisoner's ability to participate in the envisioned six-month-long capital trial. Some background in here:

Two other military judges have thrown out similar statements in the capital cases, with this decision in the USS Cole case upheld in appellate court review, to guide the 9/11 judge. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/u...

He cast what an NCIS interviewer described as proud, unprompted boasting delivered at rapid dictation speed as a the outcome of violence, sleep deprivation, isolation and years of debriefings that delivered him to Guantánamo Bay primed to answer questions, before they were asked.

Now correcting, from lunch recess: This is how Mr. Engle’s name is spelled. He has been arguing that the prisoner’s three rounds of federal interrogations at Gitmo 2007-08 constituted a single inadmissible product of a CIA torture regime that broke an initially resisting prisoner in the Black Sites.

Up next: Capital defender Matthew Engel argues for suppression of the interrogations of defendant Walid bin Attash to FBI and NCIS agents at Guantanamo in 2007 and 2008. A prosecutor says he bragged about his role in the plot. We expect his lawyer to say the CIA brutally conditioned him to confess.

Sept. 11 case? What Sept. 11 case? Why hasn’t it happened yet? Here’s an explainer I wrote some time back that could be helpful, with one update: Lawyers for the three men who sought a plea agreement are preparing a filing for the U.S. Supreme Court. www.nytimes.com/2024/10/21/u...

Good morning from the Pentagon, where I’ll be watching a video feed of Day 8 of the pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantánamo Bay on a 40-second national security delay. Here’s our updated trial guide, with the latest personnel change. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...

Sickening, another Gitmo torturer still at large, 79YO Richard Zuley, enjoying retirement, w victims scattered across globe. Turns out he also tortured ppl at home, again extracting bogus “confessions.” Our failure to own these mistakes contributes to our rule-of-law spiral: it’s not just Trump.

At least 15 former elected officials and co-conspirators with corruption offenses have been pardoned by President Trump in the last year, undermining the fight against public corruption. n.pr/4wrikpc

Attor­ney, Jen­nifer Blagg, argued that retired Detect­ive Richard Zuley, 79, coordin­ated her cli­ent’s #torture. She also likened Gar­rett’s case to tor­ture that happened when Zuley was at #Guantánamo. #LeavingHotelCalifornia #UnjustifiableMeans www.wbez.org/criminal-jus...

Here’s some background on the topic… www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-... Unclear from the Pentagon viewing site is whether the court security officer did it, or it was done by prosecutors at the behest of the CIA.

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...

Good afternoon from lunch recess. This is going to be brief. Comms are a challenge at the Pentagon viewing site. --KSM's lawyer has been recounting the horribles of the prisoner's treatment in CIA custody and has been describing the prisoner as groomed to confess through hundreds of CIA debriefings.

An absolute travesty & a mockery of justice.