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…
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 — While Col. Patrick Parrish dealt Omar Khadr’s lawyers a setback yesterday by ruling that the government will have four weeks to conduct its own psychological examination of the 23-year old Canadian detainee before the defense can present its own mental health experts, the defense is trying More…
GUANTANAMO BAY — The military judge presiding over Omar Khadr’s military commission on Monday handed the 23-year old Canadian citizen something he’s grown accustomed to in his eight years in U.S. detention centers: delay.
[Security1]Col. Patrick Parrish today granted the government’s request to conduct an independent psychological examination of Khadr, 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…
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