So now that the pre-trial hearing in Omar Khadr’s military commission has recessed while the government conducts a mental-health exam of the 23-year old detainee, when will Khadr’s proceedings actually resume? July and August, just in time for the most oppressively baking temperatures that Guantanamo Bay has to offer!
On the heels of a letter to the Pentagon from human rights groups, the news organizations of four journalists banned from Guantanamo Bay for allegedly violating military-commission ground rules have lodged a formal protest to the Office of the Secretary of Defense urging their reinstatement.
On Thursday, right as Round One of Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing gaveled to a close at Guantanamo Bay, the Office of the Secretary of Defense announced that four veteran reporters would be barred from returning to the base. Their offense was to report the name of a witness More…
So Solicitor General Elena Kagan will be President Obama’s second Supreme Court nominee. The emerging conventional wisdom is that Kagan, a rare nominee for the high court who hasn’t been a judge, is a very smart blank slate. On at least one category of issues that Kagan will face More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Two weeks’ worth of testimony in a pre-trial hearing for the military commission of Omar Khadr, a 23-year old Canadian detained by the U.S. for nearly eight years, ended Thursday with two major declaratory statements. One was from the first man ever to interrogate Khadr, who testified More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Two weeks’ worth of proceedings in the pre-trial hearing of Omar Khadr found an unexpected meta-conclusion this afternoon as the public affairs shop in the Office of the Secretary of Defense banned four reporters from returning to Guantanamo Bay. Their offense: reporting the name of a witness More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Now that former Army interrogator Damien “The Monster” Corsetti has testified on Omar Khadr’s behalf, he’ll be followed tomorrow morning by the long-awaited testimony of “Interrogator #1,” who apparently will testify to threatening the then-15-year-old detainee with sending him to another country to be More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — His nickname wasn’t “Monster,” he admonished the lawyer. It was “The Monster.” That was what the Bagram Collection Point’s interrogators, guards — and most especially detainees — called Army interrogator Damien Corsetti. And it was important to him that the court correctly record his story.
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GUANTANAMO BAY — Following a lunchtime recess, Navy Capt. John Murphy asked Col. Patrick Parrish, the military judge overseeing Omar Khadr’s military commission, to admonish the press corps here for publishing the names of witnesses in the pre-trial hearing who have or will testify anonymously. Khadr’s lawyers didn’t object, and More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Former Army interrogator Damien Corsetti, dressed in a dark sweater, white shirt and dark tie, is testifying remotely on behalf of Omar Khadr, the 23-year old Canadian detainee held by U.S. forces for eight years and charged with killing an American soldier. While Corsetti did not More…
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