Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 16hFBI agents didn't tell the prisoner his statements could be used against him when they questioned him at a former CIA black site in Guantanamo in 2007, his fourth year in U.S. custody. Mustafa al-Hawsawi is accused of helping the 9/11 hijackers with finances and travel arrangements. 1334
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 16hBreaking news: A military judge has thrown out yet another confession in the 9/11 case, ruled it was involuntary.nytimes.comJudge Throws Out Another Confession in Sept. 11 Case (Gift Article)Prosecutors have long considered the defendants’ admissions during interrogations in 2007 to be their best evidence. 923680
Reposted by Mark FallonLucky LaRue @luckylarue.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Just finished reading this. He was the legal mind behind Guantanamo Bay. 021
Reposted by Mark FallonStars and Stripes @starsandstripes.bsky.social · 02/10/2026A report from the GAO found the Defense Department wasted millions on food never eaten and tents never lived in while assisting Homeland Security's rush last year to build migrant detention facilities in Texas and Guantanamo Bay. From Stars and Stripes' Rose L. Thayer:stripes.comMilitary wasted millions on efforts to help with ICE detention facilities, GAO saysBillions were spent purchasing warehouses, rushing contracts and trying to establish detention operations in locations that didn’t meet regulations. 510062
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026Pentagon spent millions on migrant detention supplies that were never used in #Guantanamo, watchdog says www.militarytimes.com/news/pentago...militarytimes.comPentagon spent millions on migrant detention supplies that were never used, watchdog saysThe Pentagon spent $2.85 million assembling tents at Guantanamo Bay that were never used to house detained noncitizens, a government watchdog reported. 000
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 01/10/2026#LeavingHotelCalifornia, with former #Guantabamo detainee Mohamedou Ould Slahi and former CIA officer @johnkiriakou.bsky.social was featured in six publications this month. U.S. premiere is at the Golden Isles Film Festival in Brunswick, GA on October 24th, 3pm-4pm in the SoGlo theater. 011
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Good afternoon from Camp Justice: The court is closed today for Nashiri defense lawyers to examine would-be trial evidence. We saw a bunch of exhibits back in 2017 in Judge Spath's preadmission hearings, which were subsequently overturned. 031
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026News: 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...justsecurity.orgGuantanamo Dispatch: Military Ends USS Cole Hearing Early for Health EmergencyPretrial hearings in the USS Cole bombing case ended abruptly on Wednesday after the defense lawyer had a health emergency. 142
Reposted by Mark FallonKnight First Amendment Institute @knightcolumbia.org · 30/09/2026Under 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." 🧵 184
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026The 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/...washingtonpost.comDick Cheney paved the way for Donald TrumpThough he would eventually condemn Trump, the former vice president rejected transparency, the rule of law, and constitutional principles. 010
Reposted by Mark FallonJust Security @justsecurity.org · 28/09/2026Even 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...justsecurity.orgGuantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go FreeEven 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. 01811
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Good 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...justsecurity.orgGuantanamo Dispatch: Innocent or Guilty, Accused USS Cole Bomber May Never Go FreeEven 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. 21511
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026An interview with Mohamedou Ould Slahi on #LeavingHotelCalifornia, #Guantanamo, and #Torture www.l1nieuws.nl/nieuws/32381...l1nieuws.nlVergiffenis centraal bij bezoek Slahi aan Roermond: jarenlang onterecht vast in Guantánamo BayJarenlang 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... 000
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026ICE 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...apple.newsICE wasted millions in rapid push to expand detention capacity, watchdog finds — CBS NewsWith an unprecedented budget, ICE spent billions in a rush to expand its detention network, wasting millions in the process, the Government Accountability Office found. 000
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026Guantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at #Guantanamo at www.justsecurity.org/158749/guant...justsecurity.orgGuantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at GuantanamoThe witnesses in Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial, the USS Cole bombing case, are expected to testify by video feed. 010
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Good 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...justsecurity.orgGuantanamo Dispatch: Prosecutors Turn to Remote Testimony For First-Ever Capital Trial at GuantanamoThe witnesses in Guantanamo’s first-ever death penalty trial, the USS Cole bombing case, are expected to testify by video feed. 063
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Good 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. 192
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026www.wgbh.org/radio-podcas...wgbh.orgThe 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. 001
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Here’s my rundown on this week’s hearing so far. www.justsecurity.org/158316/guant... @justsecurity.org justsecurity.orgGuantánamo Dispatch: Military Judge Orders Last Minute Sanity Board in USS Cole Bombing CaseCarol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the military judge's order of a last minute "sanity board" in the USS Cole Bombing case. 042
Reposted by Mark FallonProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026Sen. 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 🧵 411113656061
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Meantime, 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...nytimes.comJudge Throws Out Key 9/11 Confession as Tainted by TortureProsecutors argued the statements by the defendant, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, were crucial evidence for the eventual death-penalty trial. 062
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Update: 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. 1205
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Good 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-...nytimes.comTrial 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. 1105
Reposted by Mark FallonSpencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026It’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.nytimes.comA Central African Hotel Has Become a Nightmare Prison for U.S. DeporteesWitnesses say men were hooded and beaten in Equatorial Guinea. The autocratic government there is a partner in President Trump’s deportation program. 3225311033
Reposted by Mark FallonGail Helt @gailhelt.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Kudos 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. 053
Reposted by Mark FallonJust Security @justsecurity.org · 18/09/2026In 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.justsecurity.orgGuantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward TrialCarol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case. 12917
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026I 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. 03716
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Our @nytimes guide to the case. https://www.nytimes.com/article/uss-cole-bombing-trial.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share 172
Reposted by Mark FallonThe New York Times @nytimes.com · 19/09/2026Breaking 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.nyti.msCNN and MS NOW Reporters Barred From White House After Trump Announces BanThe prohibition on certain journalists was a stark escalation in President Trump’s war on the media, and will probably face a legal challenge. 5311254
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 19/09/2026Now 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...justsecurity.orgGuantánamo Dispatch: The USS Cole Case Edges Toward TrialCarol Rosenberg reports from Guantánamo Bay on the upcoming pre-trial hearing in the USS Cole bombing case. 2489
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 18/09/2026After 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...latimes.comMan accused of ties to Bin Laden and tortured after 9/11 has 20-year Guantanamo detention reviewedThe 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... 011
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026U.S. premier of #LeavingHotelCalifornia at the Golden Isles Film Festival, downtown Brunswick, GA on Saturday October 24, 3pm. giff26.eventive.org/films/6aa5bf...giff26.eventive.org2026 Golden Isles Film Festival 000
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Latest: 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.nytimes.comTrial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo BayThe 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. 042
Reposted by Mark FallonCenter 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/...sahanjournal.comSomali ICE detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for weeksThree Somali men, including two Minnesota men, describe weekslong detention, aggressive shackling, and constant surveillance at Guantanamo Bay. 032
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Covered 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...youtube.comNew York Times journalist Carol Rosenberg discusses covering 9-11 plotters being held in CubaYouTube video by WPLG Local 10 083
Reposted by Mark FallonLawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 14/09/2026Twenty-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.lawfaremedia.org9/11’s Legacy of TortureTwenty-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. 36433
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Tickets 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 001
Reposted by Mark FallonMansoor Adayfi منصور الضيفي @gtmo441.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Day: 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. 111
Reposted by Mark FallonUlf Poshbart, Evidenzbüro @heringsburger.bsky.social · 26/08/2026www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/livi...psychologytoday.comState-Sponsored Bullshit, and Why Truth MattersMaria Hartwig and Mark Fallon reject the normalization of BS and share Orwell’s credo that truth matters. 001
Reposted by Mark FallonKimberly @kimberly.cryptoanarchy.network · 28/08/2026Here it is with alt text. 001
Reposted by Mark FallonDemocracy 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. 17224
Reposted by Mark FallonDemocracy 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." 513052
Reposted by Mark FallonJameel Jaffer @jameeljaffer.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Thanks 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... 1183
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 12/09/2026Latest: 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... 02214
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026This 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. 171
Reposted by Mark FallonCarol Rosenberg @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social · 08/09/2026www.nytimes.com/2026/09/08/u...nytimes.comA 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. 1148
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026abcnews.com/US/wireStory...abcnews.comTrial remains elusive for purported mastermind accused of plotting 9/11 attacksTwo 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... 000
Mark Fallon @markfallon.bsky.social · 11/09/2026www.npr.org/2026/09/10/n...npr.orgThe men accused of orchestrating 9/11 haven't been tried. Where the case stands todayOn 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. 000