Carol Rosenberg is the empress of the Gitmo press corps, but in her spare time she wrote this deep dive into an instance of the Pentagon’s restoring the names of Confederates to military bases through cynically obvious dishonesty. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

9/11 Military Commissions called to order at 1300. Judge Lt Col Michael Schrama takes the commissions bench for the first time.

Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Today the 9/11 case returns to the Military Commissions courtroom for the first time since January.

Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,

A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Latest: The military flew nine more migrants into the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay yesterday during Defense Secretary Hegseth’s visit with his former Fox colleague Laura Ingraham. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...

Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantánamo this week. And now he has entered the Sept. 11 Case fray. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...

Men who were once imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay write about the detention of migrants there now: "We are not just survivors of Guantánamo. We are witnesses. And we will not let the world forget." www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...

In their words … former detainees on the heart of darkness that defines Guantanamo www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...

'Um desastre de direitos humanos': imigrantes enviados para os porões de Guantánamo sem que haja provas de crimes, por @tomphillips.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

“This is just another attempt by a sitting US president to weaponize the specter of Guantánamo.” @isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports on the "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay

The Supreme Court is responsible for allowing the Trump administration to turn Guantanamo Bay into a concentration camp for immigrants

“The Pentagon's Rush to Staff Trump’s Guantanamo Migrant Prison Camp Should Terrify Us All” Read ⁦‪Prem Thakker’s latest op-ed, and scoop, for Zeteo:

Thank you @bellingcat.com!

NYT had a piece yesterday with all 53 names, and @bellingcat.com started a Gitmo tracker, for flights and ships, @gitmowatch.bsky.social

Teen Vogue reports on how Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies weren’t the first time Guantánamo Bay imprisoned migrants. During the mid 1990s, Haitians fleeing their homeland seeking for a better life instead ended up there imprisoned. www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...

🚨SCOOP: ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration. migrantinsider.com/p/ice-transf...

Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'

Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.

Just in: No war court hearings at Guantanamo Bay this month. The 9/11 judge has cancelled his February hearings as we await a decision on the plea deal from the Circuit Court. Up next: USS Cole pretrial hearings March 10-21. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...

It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.

Update: A federal judge has barred the U.S. government on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan men to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from an ICE facility in New Mexico.

En español también www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...

We showed you the first independent images of the emerging migrant operations at Guantanamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...

Catching up? We found a forever gag order on post 9/11 CIA ops in the reputed mastermind's would-be guilty plea. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...

Excellent resource. I highly suggest also following @gitmowatch.bsky.social, where people who already have base access provide updates on what's happening on the ground (and have for a long time).

Newly Unsealed Documents Reveal More Details of Prosecutors' Evidence in 9/11 Attacks

#GTMO continues to be a stain on US history. This is so shameful. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Just a reminder that the whole point of Guantanamo Bay is that American laws do not apply there. I cannot express how horrifying this is — and how much worse it will get. www.cnn.com/2025/02/04/p...

Trump's Mass Detention Plan for Guantánamo Harkens Back to '90s Detention of Haitian Asylum Seekers

Trump administration says it has begun deporting migrants to Guantánamo Bay

The Trump administration is deporting its first round of immigrants to Guantánamo Bay on Tuesday.

ICYMI: My conversation with @paoramos.bsky.social on Trump’s use of Guantanamo Bay to hold detained migrants. www.msnbc.com/katie-phang/...

Karoline Leavitt announces that "today, the first flights from the United States to Guantanamo Bay with illegal migrants are underway."

The White House has officially confirmed that the first flights containing migrants to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have begun.

Civilians reportedly shipped to law of war prison www.military.com/daily-news/2...

This story has been updated to reflect that, now, the military has 300 troops including Marines from Camp Lejeune and soldiers from Fort Sam Houston on the ground for the nation's emerging detention and mission. Another 111 MPs, New York National Guard, are in training in Texas.

The Guantanamo Bay military commission is deciding the question of whether confessions obtained by torture and incommunicado detention are admissible

About 200 Marines and soldiers landed at Guantánamo Bay over the weekend to provide security and begin setting up at a new tent city for migrants, as officials comply with President Trump’s order to prepare the Navy base for as many as 30,000 deportees.

U.S. Military Troops Arrive at Naval Station Guantanamo Bay for Migrant Operations www.southcom.mil/News/PressRe...

Breaking News: A Pentagon appeals panel has upheld a judge’s decision in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case to forbid the use of the defendant’s confession as derived from torture. The ruling, sealed pending a classification review, was unanimous. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

The Pentagon appeals court has ruled again in favor of a former CIA prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Last time it ruled against former Defense Secretary Austin on the plea deals. This time, it's doubled down on banning a tortured confession in the USS Cole case. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/30/u...

Twenty years later, Guantánamo is everywhere. The lawless and ongoing administration of the prison there has metastasized throughout U.S. legal and political culture and underwrites the broader democratic crisis we face today. Baher Azmy, legal director at @ccrjustice.bsky.social:

As people who spend a lot of time at Guantanamo, there are no 30,000 beds. There is a tiny but outrageously expensive prison holding 15 people, and a Navy base that is basically a small town. There are less than 5,000 people today on base, most of whom are service members

Building a massive migrant detention facility at Guantanamo would be a disastrous mistake.

The expansion of Guantanamo Bay. Here’s what it’s going to involve, informed by what it’s been since 2002:

I am told that this story is now open for comments. Based on my inbox, some of you have a lot to say.

It’s starting. Trump is signing an EO to prepare a 30,000 capacity migrant detention camp in Guantanamo Bay. The site of previous human right abuses identified by the UN, Amnesty International and Red Cross. (🎥 CNN)