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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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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

MilComs in morning recess following someone setting off the hockey light.

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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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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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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

Trivett claims the ICRC letters are a significant part of the argument. They come in at slide 67 of 170 in the presentation. He says there is more than enough caselaw to support the letters aren't privileged, citing the Nashiri ruling which is conveniently not public.

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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

The government's response filed nearly 7 years ago is still not posted to mc.mil

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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

Connell notes there has been an increase in denied or cancelled missions affecting defense progress.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Connell offers an approach to address the unpredicatibility that is to tie trial scheduling to the end of LHM statements litigation. The four teams are at different places in this process, depending on appeals decisions.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Army Col Bearden argues for a trial scheduling order for the government. The unclassified 47-page pleading filed in January is still not posted to MC.mil

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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

Gaudin described seeing a box -- something he was familiar with from SERE school. Zubaydah asked him about it -- Gaudin believed there was no way the detainee would go in the box because it wasn't on the DoJ list and he wasn't medically fit for it. Zubaydah later drew about his box experience.

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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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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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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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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

SCOTUS has repeatedly held that restrictions on public access require specific findings and judicial oversight. Of note, the March filing regarding public access is still not posted to mc.mil

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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

The ninth judge assigned to the case will be the fifth to take the 9/11 bench, expected at 1300. LtCol Michael Schrama was assigned to the case in July.

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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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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

He also wants to know if the prosecution agrees with the veracity of this slide depicting FBI-CIA information looping 2003-2007. Groharing is checking.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell concludes by reading from Ashcraft v. Tennessee:

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Now analyzing time -- the five months between the move to GTMO from black sites and interrogations. The government has conceded the statements made at black sites were coerced, given under distress, and involuntary.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell explains how that decision-making process played into al Baluchi when he entered the interrogation room at Guantanamo and saw the familiar scene -- the same lights, same shackle points, same chairs he saw in the black sites over 1k+ interrogations. To him, he had no choice but to talk.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

"...manipulate a detainee’s decision-making processes so the apparent facts of the situation, options for decisions and representations of future outcomes favor operationally exploitable courses of action. ”

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell: Dr. Michael Welner aligned himself with the prosecution. Welner has billed over $1.4million in the 9/11 case alone.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Al Baluchi's symptoms are well demonstrated in his medical record.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell shows the long list of drugs administered to al Baluchi which would never be given to someone who wasn't suffering from serious trauma symptoms.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Doctors at Guantanamo have tried to treat his trauma symptoms with psychotropic medications and other treatments.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell returns to PTSD -- those symptoms al Baluchi reported did meet the criteria for the disorder

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Connell explains the constant worry about his family is connected to incommunicado detention -- Ammar al Baluchi was disappeared. The disappeared in Argentina's Dirty War had similar experiences of concerns for family.

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Gitmo Watch @gitmowatch.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Al Baluchi's symptoms rooted in the moment CIA interrogators bashed his head against a wall continued in Guantanamo.

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