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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
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...
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Judge to Decide How Long Torture’s Taint Infected the Sept. 11 Case
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Day 3, week 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings to start at 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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...
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Judge Again Delays Guantánamo’s First Death-Penalty Terror Trial
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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...
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Judge Again Delays Guantánamo’s First Death-Penalty Terror Trial
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
Week 2, day 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at GTMO Bay begins at 0900. Follow here for updates.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
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.
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Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Day 1, week 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba begins at 0900. Follow here for updates.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
Prosecutors made what might prove their final attempt to convince a military judge that the CIA’s brutal #torture of the accused 9/11 conspirators at overseas black sites did not permanently taint confessions they made to law enforcement agents in #Guantanamo after they left the agency’s custody.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
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Prosecutors Make Impassioned Case for Ruling that 9/11 Defendants’ Confessions Were Voluntary | Lawdragon
Prosecutors argued that the CIA’s brutal treatment of the 9/11 suspects did not taint confessions they made to FBI agents on Guantanamo Bay.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Day 5 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings at Guantanamo Bay called to order.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Day 4 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay. All four defendants waived right to attend this morning.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Day 3 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings is expected to begin at 0900.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Day 2 of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings happening now.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The first day of the 57th 9/11 pretrial hearings is scheduled to begin at 0900. Follow here for updates.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 27/03/2026
The final day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from retired FBI Special Agent Gaudin though part of that is expected to be closed to the public. Follow here for updates.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
The 4th day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from retired FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
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.
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Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The 3rd day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect another full day of testimony from former FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 24/03/2026
The 2nd day of the 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begins around 0900 at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. We expect a full day of testimony from former FBI Special Agent Gaudin. Follow here for updates.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
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.
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Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The 56th 9/11 pretrial hearings begin at 0900 today. Follow here for updates
56th 9/11 Pretrial hearing, Day 1 23 March 2026
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Peter Sagal @petersagal.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
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...
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The Mysterious Life and Afterlife of Private Fitz Lee
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
9/11 Military Commissions called to order at 1300. Judge Lt Col Michael Schrama takes the commissions bench for the first time.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
Good morning from Guantanamo Bay. Today the 9/11 case returns to the Military Commissions courtroom for the first time since January.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
One said it looked “like a Nazi concentration camp." Other descriptions McCall cited include "a dungeon" and "something out of a horror show” with cells resembling "horse stalls." Yet another described the Salt Pit having "a stench like no other, enhanced by [the detainees'] fear." Such perspectives contrast sharply with the rough-but-professional narrative of the black sites that the CIA has presented to the public. Torture program co-architect Bruce Jessen, for instance, said the Salt Pit's "atmosphere was very good… nasty but safe."
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
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,
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CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"
New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
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...
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Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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...
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Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Visits Guantánamo Bay
Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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...
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Defense Secretary Hegseth Enters the Sept. 11 Case Fray
The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
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...
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Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants
"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
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Fionnuala NÍ Aoláin KC (Hons) @niaolainf.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In their words … former detainees on the heart of darkness that defines Guantanamo www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
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Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants
"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
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Jeff Nascimento @jnascim.info · 14/02/2025
'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...
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‘A human rights disaster’: immigrants sent into Guantánamo black hole despite no proof of crime
Homeland security chief Kristi Noem claims the US is shipping ‘criminal alien murderers’ to the Cuba naval base – but the immigrants’ true stories remain enigmatic
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 12/02/2025
“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
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The "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
Lawyers fighting the transfers decry what would be a "giant open-air prison."
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Balls & Strikes @ballsandstrikes.org · 13/02/2025
The Supreme Court is responsible for allowing the Trump administration to turn Guantanamo Bay into a concentration camp for immigrants
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How Courts Gifted Trump a Law-Free Zone to Kick Off Mass Deportations
Guantánamo Bay has operated as a constitutional no-man’s land for years. Now Donald Trump wants to use it to kick-start his mass deportations agenda.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
“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:
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The Pentagon's Rush to Staff Trump’s Guantanamo Migrant Prison Camp Should Terrify Us All
An 'urgent' internal request shows how quickly American institutions are implementing Trump’s drastic plan to detain migrants at the notorious island prison.
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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
Thank you @bellingcat.com!
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Cynthia Hope Laub @bloomlove.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
NYT had a piece yesterday with all 53 names, and @bellingcat.com started a Gitmo tracker, for flights and ships, @gitmowatch.bsky.social
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Justin Gibson @jgibsondem.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
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-...
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Trump’s Plan for Mass Detention at Guantánamo Has Happened Before. It Was a Disaster.
Haitian kids and teens known as the "ghosts of Guantánamo" were imprisoned at the notorious Camp Nine.
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Pablo Manríquez @pabloreports.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
🚨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...
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ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo (SCOOP)
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
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Post Herald Times @postheraldtimes.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'
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Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'
The use of Guantánamo Bay for migrant detention is neither a last resort nor a necessity but rather a costly and ineffective policy choice, the Niskanen Center argues.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 12/02/2025
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.
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Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States 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.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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...
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Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
The case against the men accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
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NPR @npr.org · 10/02/2025
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.
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Three migrants win temporary block from potential transfer to Guantanamo
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.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
En español también www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...
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Una ciudad de tiendas de campaña está surgiendo en Guantánamo
Estas son las primeras imágenes independientes de la operación para migrantes que el gobierno de Trump ha iniciado en la base naval.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
We showed you the first independent images of the emerging migrant operations at Guantanamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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A Tent City Is Rising at Guantánamo Bay
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
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...
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Sept. 11 Plea Deal Includes Lifetime Gag Order on C.I.A. Torture Secrets
The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.
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Alka Pradhan @alkapradhan.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
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).
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Military.com @militarydotcom.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
Newly Unsealed Documents Reveal More Details of Prosecutors' Evidence in 9/11 Attacks
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Newly Unsealed Documents Reveal More Details of Prosecutors' Evidence in 9/11 Attacks
Newly unsealed documents give one of the most detailed views yet of the evidence gathered on the accused 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, including how prosecutors allege he and others…
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