The Supreme Court has signaled that Justice Brett Kavanaugh won't be part of the discussion on whether to take up this Guantanamo case. At issue: Whether the D.C. Circuit got it wrong when it sided with former Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin in cancelling the 9/11 case plea deals.

Obituary: Judge Rosemary Collyer, who ordered an unprecedented Mixed Medical Commission for a mentally ill Guantanamo prisoner* and ruled on other big national security cases. (He was repatriated; the panel was never formed.) www.nytimes.com/2026/07/01/u...

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...

Life (and death) after Guantánamo Bay…

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.

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.

Exclusive: How a prisoner ended up alone in the war court in a death penalty case at Guantanamo Bay. --A look back at a most unusual pretrial hearing in the long-drawn-out 9/11 case at the place the Pentagon calls Camp Justice. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/u...

Here we go again. Today is the start of the 2026 hurricane season. Time to keep an eye on #nhc-atlantic.extwitter.link and www.nhc.noaa.gov

Our report on an unusual, high-level meeting between the Cuban and U.S. military at Guantánamo Bay. Local base and Cuban commanders held monthly meetings on Fridays near a break in the minefield for years until the Trump administration abandoned them in 2025. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/30/u...

Reupping this look at life at Guantanamo Navy base, untouched by the oil embargo, in light of yesterday's fenceline meeting.

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...

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.

The Times puts a spotlight on the former Guantanamo defense lawyer who now works for NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/21/n...

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...

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...

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:

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...

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...

Breaking News: The military judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case on Monday reset the start of jury selection to Oct. 19 -- more than 26 years after the suicide bombing in a port in the Middle East killed 17 U.S. sailors and wounded dozens of others. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/u...

Good morning from the Pentagon, where I have come to see a feed of Week 2 of the latest pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. In a first, no reporters are on base for a hearing in that particular case. All members of the media left on Saturday, with some court staff.

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay where we have been watching war court prosecutors argue that some of the 9/11 suspects voluntarily confessed to federal agents here in 2007, after years of isolation in CIA prisons. Here is our Who's Who guide, which needs some updating.

Looming energy crisis from war with Iran? Blackouts on mainland Cuba? Not here. The Navy base at Guantanamo Bay exists in a bubble. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

Good afternoon. I have been watching pretrial hearings in the USS Cole case at Guantanamo Bay in a video feed to a Pentagon viewing room. The judge has been hearing about would-be trial witnesses, specifically people the defense teams want and prosecutors do not. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...

Good afternoon from the Pentagon conference center where I have been watching pretrial proceedings in the USS Cole case that began this morning at Guantanamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...

Good morning from the studios of This Week in South Florida (#TWISF) where I’ll be discussing this story. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u.... @GlennaWPLG

Latest: The military judge in the long running 9/11 case has halved the next pretrial hearing. Air Force Lt. Col. Michael Schrama will hold court May 4-15 at Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay, rather than all month. Expect more testimony on....

In case you missed… A rare look at the contrasts between those who live on U.S. supplies at the base at Guantánamo Bay and the Cubans on the other side of their minefield in this time of an oil blockade. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

As Cuba struggles with blackouts and other hardships, the U.S. military base at Guantánamo Bay exists in a bubble of self reliance supported by shipments from the USA. --A look at life inside the American enclave behind a Cuban minefield. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/30/u...

It's pack-out day at Guantanamo Bay for around 100 lawyers, staff and others who came down for a week of pretrial hearings in the Sept. 11 case -- which carried on without a key capital defender. The war court is dark until USS Cole hearings starting April 13.

It's a wrap. A military judge held his first full week of pretrial hearings in the four-man 9/11 case -- and the capital defense lawyer for one defendant, Mustafa al Hawsawi, never made it to court across all five days. The lawyer, Walter Ruiz, has pneumonia at Guantanamo Bay.

The U.S. military said it killed four people in its latest strike on a boat it suspected of maritime drug smuggling, this time in the Caribbean Sea. A short video clip showed a stationary boat floating in the water and then suddenly exploding. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/26/u...

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay where staff have restored the war court crest at the ceremonial entry sign. Hurricane Melissa blew it away five months ago. Pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case on torture's taint of the proposed trial evidence resume at 0900. Before and after.

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay on this, Day 3, of these pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case. The thrust is whether the 2007 and 2008 interrogations here of defendant Walid bin Attash were voluntary -- untainted by CIA torture -- and can be used against him at his eventual trial.

With hurricane season starting June 1, the folks at #Accuweather have published this handy slate of hurricane names, if they form this storm season. June 1 is also the same day as jury selection is supposed to start at Guantanamo Bay in the USS Cole bombing case.

Afghanistan’s Taliban-led government has freed an American researcher who had been held there for over a year, amid pressure from the Trump administration to release Americans. An Afghan man at Guantanamo whose freedom is sought by the Taliban did not figure in the deal.

The Army judge in the U.S.S. Cole bombing case has ordered the prosecution to do its “due diligence” in providing defense lawyers with any evidence the U.S. government might have regarding Iran’s role in the attack off Yemen 25 years ago. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/24/u...

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay on Day 2 of pretrial hearings in the 9/11 case. We are hearing from a retired FBI agent about his 2007-8 interviews with one of the defendants, and whether they can be used against him at his someday trial. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay where we expect, the new judge in the 9/11 case, Lt. Col. Michael Schrama, to hold the first pretrial hearing in the case of 2026. We expect testimony this week from a retired FBI agent who questioned al Qaeda suspects after the attacks. My Who's Who.

Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay ahead of the first pretrial hearing in the 9/11 case of 2026. It was a long trip yesterday, with several false starts and a late arrival to the base.

Good morning from Andrews airbase near Washington DC where legal teams are assembling for a flight to the first hearing of 2026 in the 9/11 case at Guantánamo Bay. I anticipate a modest pretrial hearing while defense lawyers seek Supreme Court review of the upended plea deal. Our guide.

Breaking News: Costa Rica’s Coast Guard has taken custody of a critically injured shipwreck survivor and two dead bodies following yesterday’s U.S. military strike on a suspected drug trafficking boat in the Pacific Ocean. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/u...

So @iflymia: I’m headed to DC this morning to catch a weekend charter to Guantánamo Bay and the departures board here at MIA shows a dozen flights to the rest of Cuba before noon.

Latest: The new Southcom commander just punted a question on the Pentagon's cost of the ICE operation at Guantanamo Bay. Gen. Francis Donovan told the Senate Armed Services Committee that the services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines) pay the military's share. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/31/u...

News: The judge has ruled against a prosecution bid to resurrect some 2011 interrogations of a Saudi man who was held at Guantanamo for years, as explained in this article. The government's last option appears to be seeking his live testimony at trial. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

It's Sunshine Week* in drizzly dark Washington D.C. So I'm resurrecting an old favorite from the editorial pages of The Miami Herald. (*A celebration of freedom of information, it coincides with the birthday of James Madison, who presented the first version of the Bill of Rights to Congress.)

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

Apropos of nothing: You have to read to the end to find out what happened to Michael Moore's Oscar trophy in transit. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Just unsealed by the Pentagon, 150+ days later: An Oct. 8 notice to the judge in the USS Cole bombing case that prosecutors had briefed victims of a lesser known, tanker oil attack on a proposed plea settlement. --Deputy Defense Secretary Feinberg rejected that offer on Feb. 5.

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...