A year after the Pentagon halted the release of artwork by Guantánamo, there are signs that the hundreds of works of art that were already released have taken on a certain cachet.
Air Force Col. Vance Spath, the former judge in Guantánamo’s USS Cole death-penalty trial, spent more than half his tenure on the war court bench seeking a job as an immigration judge in the Department of Justice.
Under questioning from a Marine judge, the lawyer for accused 9/11 plot mastermind Khalid Sheik Mohammed said he had a written, proposed plea deal in the summer of 2017 and had it delivered to the Pentagon official overseeing the war court. Another defense lawyer in the death-penalty case said it subsequently vanished.
Lawyers tackle fundamental pretrial hearing issues at Guantánamo with a new judge in the Sept. 11 mass murder trial. One of them: What level of detail will be heard on secret CIA prisons?
The Obama administration struck deals to scatter cleared Guantánamo detainees across the globe. Under Trump, the office that tracked where those inmates went was shut down.
Defense lawyers in the 9/11 case arrived at Guantánamo for a week-long pretrial hearing to find a mold infestation in their top-secret work spaces. Health and safety inspectors were on the scene Sunday, Veterans Day.
Prison guards set up a hospital bed inside Guantánamo’s expeditionary war court so a new Marine judge could get through the preliminaries in a pretrial hearing for an alleged al-Qaida commander on painkillers.
A Guantánamo hearing for an Iraqi accused of leading al-Qaida’s army in Afghanistan abruptly ended after the captive, who is recovering from 5 spine surgeries, had back spasms in court, was administered opiates and taken to the prison acute care unit by ambulance.
An Army colonel from Texas who as an enlisted MP responded to the 1980s Berlin nightclub bombing has been chosen to be Guantánamo’s chief war court judge. He replaces the retired 9/11 trial judge.
Fellow troops reported Army Private First Class Matthew A. Cox, 19, of Leon, Iowa, missing after he was overpowered by a strong current off a Guantánamo beach. His remains were recovered Wednesday.
A military review panel has upheld a ruling by the retiring USS Cole case judge that defense attorneys couldn’t unilaterally quit the case over their perception of an ethical issue, potentially ending an impasse in the Guantánamo war crimes trial.
The base library at Guantánamo, the outpost with the war-on-terror prison, celebrates freedom of expression with Banned Books Week. The 34,000-item war prison library is a different matter.
Hearings in the 9/11 death-penalty trial may be held in the Washington, D.C, area for the first time since the case began, a move some lawyers say would bolster the argument that alleged terrorists are entitled to greater Constitutional protections at Guantánamo trials.
The military judge who confined a Marine general to a Guantánamo court for disobeying orders has found a new job — in the Department of Justice’s immigration court.
Guantánamo Navy base, whose prison holds the alleged 9/11 terror plotters, marked the 17th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by lowering flags to half-staff, holding a 9.11K run and chapel service.
Many guards have said how glad they were to leave Guantánamo behind. They remember hostile cell-block stares and the era when bored, angry captives threw feces on the soldiers. This is not that story.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, answers questions from reporters on at the U.S. Capitol about the government shutdown. On Thursday, Dec. 27, Roberts was the only senator from either party on Capitol Hill.
