GUANTANAMO BAY — As Omar Khadr’s defense team rushes to present as much of its case as possible this week before a court-mandated government psychological exam of the 23-year-old detainee and both teams of lawyers need to fly off the island, it plans on calling ex-Army Spc. Damien Corsetti More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — We don’t know who the individual known as “Interrogator #1″ is. He hasn’t yet been called to testify for the defense, which hopes to be able to call him this week to discuss his personal involvement in threatening Omar Khadr with sending him to Egypt to be More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — After a tough morning session for the defense, Lt. Col. Jon Jackson, Omar Khadr’s military lawyer, brought some momentum back to his team. Jackson cross-examined an Army master sergeant, known to the court only as “Interrogator #2,” who participated in an early interrogation of Khadr at Bagram More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — No one tell Marc Thiessen, but Greg Finley, a former Naval Criminal Investigative Service special agent who said he interrogated Omar Khadr here 20 times, said this afternoon that he never so much as attempted an abusive or coercive interview with Khadr, because “if you’re abusive or More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Since I’m at a Naval base, it bears calling attention during a break in the Khadr hearing to a speech Defense Secretary Gates gave this afternoon about the future of U.S. seapower. It’s a cri de coeur for the Navy and the Marine Corps to confront “hard More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — Mr. M, a former Army National Guard medic at Bagram from August 2002 to spring 2003, testified that he “never saw any fresh wounds” on Omar Khadr commensurate with any of the abuse in Khadr’s affidavit. No being used as a human mop or anything like that, More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — After two straight days of absence and a very strange half-day appearance on Thursday, the Office of Military Commissions just confirmed that Omar Khadr will return to court today for his pre-trial hearing.
Testimony on Saturday indicated that Khadr was healthy enough to play basketball just More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — The only time the courtroom has cleared in Omar Khadr’s pre-trial hearing so far was for a 20-minute stretch on Saturday morning while the defense screened a 2003 video of Canadian interrogators questioning Khadr. (While portions of the video have leaked to the media, the rules here More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — It’s been a persistent point of speculation since The Toronto Star’s Michelle Shephard broke the story Wednesday that the defense had turned down an offer to settle Omar Khadr’s case out of court: Will the defense ultimately take a deal or go to trial in July? More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — A youthful-looking woman in a gray suit with long brown hair is known only to us as Interrogator Number 11. She was a military interrogator at Guantanamo Bay who interrogated the detainee she refers to as “Omar” from October 28, 2002 until November 14, 2002. The timeline More…
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