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Mark Fallon

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Director, ClubFed | Former NCIS Special Agent | SES (Ret.) | Author | Keynote Speaker | Expert Witness | Strategic Interviewing • National Security • Ethical Leadership | Films & Television

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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 9h
News: The judge in the USS Cole bombing case has canceled the rest of this week's pretrial hearings because of a lawyer's health emergency that can't be handled at Guantanamo Bay. www.justsecurity.org/159334/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Military Ends USS Cole Hearing Early for Health Emergency
Pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case ended abruptly on Wednesday after the defense lawyer had a health emergency.
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Knight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 7h
Under Bush, Pentagon lawyers who opposed his policies "did not face reprisals." Today, says former Navy General Counsel Alberto Mora, "the function of the lawyer in the Pentagon has been severely constrained and ridiculed, in part, by Secretary Hegseth." 🧵
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 13h
The SSCI’s 2014 report into the global #torture regime that Cheney and his allies facilitated during the early years of the so-called War on Terror described a “brutal” and “flawed” program that was “in violation of US law, treaty obligations, and our values.” www.washingtonpost.com/ripple/2025/...
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Dick Cheney paved the way for Donald Trump
Though he would eventually condemn Trump, the former vice president rejected transparency, the rule of law, and constitutional principles.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 28/09/2026
Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely. Carol Rosenberg reports: www.justsecurity.org/158987/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free
Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay, site of the offshore war court where a defendant may not go free even if his death-penalty jury were to declare him not-guilty. My latest dispatch here. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/158987/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go Free
Even if the jury were to acquit him, the U.S. military could still continue to hold the suspect in the USS Cole bombing case indefinitely.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
An interview with Mohamedou Ould Slahi on #LeavingHotelCalifornia, #Guantanamo, and #Torture www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/32381...
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Vergiffenis centraal bij bezoek Slahi aan Roermond: jarenlang onterecht vast in Guantánamo Bay
Jarenlang zat hij onterecht gevangen in een van de beruchtste gevangenissen ter wereld: Guantánamo Bay. Nu woont de Mauritaanse Mohamedou Ould Slahi in Nederland en vertelt hij als spreker en activist...
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
ICE also spent $2.85 million on tents at #Guantanamo Bay to house detainees that were never used. The facility, initially planned for 30,000 detainees, held only a handful. In May, CBS News reported that the Guantanamo Bay facility was holding just six detainees. apple.news/Av2bgi7KmT0C...
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ICE wasted millions in rapid push to expand detention capacity, watchdog finds — CBS News
With an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at #Guantanamo at www.justsecurity.org/158749/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at Guantanamo
The witnesses in Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial, the USS Cole bombing case, are expected to testify by video feed.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay. The USS Cole case hearing is in recess today and likely to resume tomorrow in a closed national security session. Meantime, my latest look at why the court down here functions like no other. @justsecurity.org www.justsecurity.org/158749/guant...
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Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at Guantanamo
The witnesses in Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial, the USS Cole bombing case, are expected to testify by video feed.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay on this, day 3 of these pretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case. We expect a court discussion today about how jury selection, scheduled for Oct. 19, is supposed to work.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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The military prison and war court at Guantánamo Bay, 25 years after 9/11.
John Ryan joined GBH’s All Things Considered to discuss covering the Guantánamo Bay trials and the decades-long search for justice after 9/11.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Here’s my rundown on this week’s hearing so far. www.justsecurity.org/158316/guant... @justsecurity.org ‬
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Guantánamo Dispatch: Military Judge Orders Last Minute Sanity Board in USS Cole Bombing Case
Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the military judge's order of a last minute "sanity board" in the USS Cole Bombing case.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026
Sen. Susan Collins helped steer millions in federal defense contracts to Navatek, whose CEO illegally funneled thousands of dollars to her campaign. The FBI sought to launch a probe and was eyeing Collins and other lawmakers. Then Trump gutted the unit in charge. THREAD 🧵
Martin Kao, CEO of defense contractor Navatek, poses next to Sen. Susan Collins for a photo. Collins is holding a model of a boat in her hands. Behind them is a large sign with the Navatek logo.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Meantime, we are still awaiting the judge's companion rulings for co-defendants Walid bin Attash and Mustafa al Hawsawi on the question of admissibility of their 2007 interrogations. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Judge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by Torture
Prosecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Update: The military judge just canceled next week's pretrial session in the 9/11 case. Only the Dec. 7-18 hearings remain for the rest of the year.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Good morning from Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay on Day 2 of this pretrial hearing session in the USS Cole bombing case. Here's our updated trial guide with some of the recent personnel changes. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...
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Trial Guide: The Cole Bombing Case at Guantánamo Bay (Gift Article)
What to know about the death-penalty prosecution of a Saudi prisoner accused of plotting the suicide bombing on a Navy destroyer off Yemen in 2000 that killed 17 sailors.
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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
It’s not “third-country deportation,” it’s an extraordinary rendition, complete with torture and enforced silence by the “host” country’s thugs. And it’s a direct consequence of never imposing punishment on the CIA for doing this during the War on Terror.
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A Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. Deportees
Witnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program.
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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Kudos to @justsecurity.org for its brilliant decision to bring @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social on board to continue Guantanamo reporting. It’s easy to forget there are still GWOT detainees there amid all the other horrors.
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Just Security @justsecurity.org · 18/09/2026
In her first exclusive Guantánamo Dispatch for Just Security, Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
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Guantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial
Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I see this new space at Just Security as public service journalism for those who are deeply interested in the military commissions that the United States created after the 9/11 attacks. Don’t look here for legal opinion or national security commentary. Just the facts.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
‪Our @nytimes guide to the case.‬ ‪https://www.nytimes.com/article/uss-cole-bombing-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share‬
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026
Breaking News: CNN and MS NOW journalists were denied access to the White House after President Trump announced a ban on three news outlets because of reporting he disliked.
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CNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces Ban
The prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Now assembling at Andrews airbase near Washington DC: Guantánamo-bound lawyers and other war court personnel for what may be the last pretrial hearing before jury selection in the USS Cole bombing case. My first dispatch for @JustSecurity is here. www.justsecurity.org/157396/guant...
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Guantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward Trial
Carol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
After 20 years at #Guantanamo without charges, Abu Zubaydah faces a rare detention review on his unjustifiable indefinite detention without trial. Zubaydah was the first victim of #torture at CIA black sites, leaving him permanently injured and still never charged. www.latimes.com/world-nation...
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Man accused of ties to Bin Laden and tortured after 9/11 has 20-year Guantanamo detention reviewed
The roughly 20-minute hearing offered rare visibility into the secretive military court proceedings of a suspect who had been tortured at CIA black sites during the U.S. war on terrorism and whose cas...
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
U.S. premier of #LeavingHotelCalifornia at the Golden Isles Film Festival, downtown Brunswick, GA on Saturday October 24, 3pm. giff26.eventive.org/films/6aa5bf...
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2026 Golden Isles Film Festival
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Latest: The military judge has canceled the three-week October-November pretrial hearing session in the 9/11 case. Only the weeklong Sept. 28 and Dec. 7-18 hearings remain. And the December session may need to deconflict with the USS Cole bombing trial down there at Guantánamo Bay.
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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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Center for Victims of Torture @cvt.org · 15/09/2026
“There is no legal authority for migrants to be detained at Guantánamo, especially in Camp 6,” said CVT’s Yumna Rizvi to Mohamud Farah in @sahanjournal.bsky.social Read the article: sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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Somali ICE detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for weeks
Three Somali men, including two Minnesota men, describe weekslong detention, aggressive shackling, and constant surveillance at Guantanamo Bay.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Covered a lot of ground here: On the 9/11 case, the frustrated families and the coming first ever capital trial at Guantánamo Bay. (No, not the trial everybody's been talking about.) www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
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New York Times journalist Carol Rosenberg discusses covering 9-11 plotters being held in Cuba
YouTube video by WPLG Local 10
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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/09/2026
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it. @nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
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9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Tickets on sale now for the US premiere of #LeavingHotelCalifornia, at the Golden Isles Film Festival in beautiful downtown Brunswick, GA @johnkiriakou.bsky.social #Guantanamo #Torture #NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values #TruthMatters giff25.eventive.org/schedule
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Mansoor Adayfi منصور الضيفي @gtmo441.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Day: 2 Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman. In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
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Ulf Poshbart, Evidenzbüro @heringsburger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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State-Sponsored Bullshit, and Why Truth Matters
Maria Hartwig and Mark Fallon reject the normalization of BS and share Orwell’s credo that truth matters.
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Kimberly @kimberly.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/08/2026
Here it is with alt text.
---Original Message-

From: Fallon Mark

Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:52 PM

To: McCahon Sam

Cc: Mallow Brittain; Thomas Blaine; Johnson Scott Smith David

Subject: RE: Counter Resistance Strategy Meeting Minutes

Sam:

We need to ensure seniors at OGC are aware of the 170 strategies and how it might impact CITF and Commissions. This looks like the kinds of stuff Congressional hearings are made of. Quotes from LTC Beaver regarding things that are not being reported give the appearance of Impropriety. Other comments like "It is basically subject to perception. If the detainee dies you're doing it wrong" and "Any of the techniques that lie on the harshest end of the spectrum must be performed by a highly trained individual. Medical personnel should be present to treat any possible accidents." seem to stretch beyond the bounds of legal propriety. Talk of "wet towel treatment" which results in the lymphatic gland reacting as if you are suffocating, would in my opinion; shock the conscience of any legal body looking at using the results of the interrogations or possibly even the interrogators. Someone needs to be considering how history will look back at this.

R/Mark Fallon

Deputy Commander

Criminal Investigation Task Force
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 14/09/2026
“The military commissions in Guantanamo have been a unique disaster that you can trace back to the whole effort to try to impose military justice — tough justice — led by Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the aftermath of 911,” says national security reporter at ProPublica Tim Golden.
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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 11/09/2026
"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."
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Jameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Thanks to @democracynow.org for inviting me on to talk about American courts and the "war on terror." I wrote about some of these issues for @thenation.com, too. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Latest: The Pentagon’s classification review team has finally released a lightly redacted version of this huge ruling. We hit the highlights in our story but here’s a link for those who want to wade through it, point out other key points. www.mc.mil/Portals/0/pd...
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
#NeverForget
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is my contribution to The Times’ wide-ranging coverage this week for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The monument sits between the war court chamber and the office trailer where reporters work on their articles at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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A Place Where Memories of the 9/11 Victims Have Faded Away (Gift Article)
Relatives who traveled to the U.S. Navy base in Guantánamo Bay left memory stones and messages for those killed in the attacks 25 years ago.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Trial remains elusive for purported mastermind accused of plotting 9/11 attacks
Two decades after U.S. authorities locked Khalid Sheikh Mohammed away at a military detention center in Cuba, the purported mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks sometimes seems barely any closer to bein...
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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The men accused of orchestrating 9/11 haven't been tried. Where the case stands today
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we look at the status of the 9/11 case -- which hasn't yet gone to trial -- and the war-on-terror prisoners still held at Guantanamo.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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'Constantly on my mind' - 9/11 agony endures for bereaved, 25 years on
As the 25th anniversary approaches, the wait for the alleged mastermind of the attack to be put on trial goes on.
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Gail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Rejecting the plea agreements was, frankly, stupid and yet another slap in the face of the rule of law. It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
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Nearly 25 years after attacks, Supreme Court asked to bring closure to 9/11 case - NJTODAY.NET
By Kelsey Reichmann | Courthouse News Service WASHINGTON (CN) — As the country prepares to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks, the Supreme Court has been asked to weigh in on the...
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Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Breaking: A week after the 9/11 trial judge's big decision that threw out a post-torture confession from KSM, the man of accused of being mastermind of the plot... the prosecution team decides they can go ahead without it, won't appeal. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
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Prosecutors Won’t Try to Reinstate Key 9/11 Confession Taken After Torture
The military’s lawyers said they feared an appeal could delay the trial of the man accused of masterminding the attacks, which is scheduled to start in mid-2028.
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and #Guantánamo Bay youtube.com/shorts/nAqd7...
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TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and Guantánamo Bay
YouTube video by wicklanderzulawski
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Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
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