Now updated: Our USS Cole Bombing case guide with lead prosecutor Clay Trivett now mobilized as Navy commander, a few other personnel changes.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialCarol Rosenberg
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social
Journalist. Beat reporter covering the court, prison and other aspects of life at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay. Former Miami Herald Middle East correspondent.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.social@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialGuantanamo Dispatch: All Four Defendants’ Confessions Are Now Suppressed in the 9/11 Case at www.justsecurity.org/160118/guant...
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialThe mission has cost more than $100 million, the study said. A recent visit found nearly 450 government employees and zero detainees. “This comes at a significant cost to taxpayers and undermines military readiness,” the report said.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialGood morning. Here's the big news that broke over night. Prosecutors are 5-0 in their losses to the so-called "clean team interrogation" challenges. The government is still deciding whether to appeal this one.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.comJudge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo (Gift Article)The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialBreaking news: The military judge just threw out the confessions of the fourth defendant in the 9/11 case -- which has gone on so long in part because prosecutors fought hard to keep them. It's a blow to the Bush administration's clean team theory. Scorecard: 5-0.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/07/u...
nytimes.comJudge Throws Out Last Defendant’s Confession in Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo (Gift Article)The government is now 0-5 in its efforts to admit the so-called clean team confessions to the capital cases at Guantánamo Bay.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialExplained here in detail for the deep divers who follow @justsecurity.org…
@justsecurity.orgReposted by @carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialA military judge has thrown out the confessions of Mustafa al-Hawsawi, a capital defendant in the 9/11 case at Guantanamo Bay. Carol Rosenberg reports:
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialThree years ago, we ran this analysis on how a military judge’s adverse “clean team” ruling shook a foundation of the US government’s cases at the post-9/11 court at Guantánamo. Now that two more judges have followed him, here’s a look back at that explainer. www.nytimes.com/2023/08/26/u...
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialSubpoena power? Not exactly. Acquittal means freedom? Nope. A few unusual things that came up last month in the longest running capital case at Guantánamo Bay.
www.nytimes.com/2026/10/02/u...
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialSo the admissions to federal agents by three of the four defendants are out, and a ruling is stlil pending on Walid bin Attash. No word yet from the chief prosecutor on whether his office will appeal today's decision to try to reinstate the so-called clean team confessions.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialFBI 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.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialBreaking 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.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialThe judge also gave defense lawyers until 10/9 to submit filings on still disputed "proposed substitutions in lieu of testimony for approved defense witnesses." Translation: They are haggling over government documents in place of human testimony that might be favorable to the defendant.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialUpdate: In an order, the judge says the lead defense lawyer in the USS Cole case has left Guantanamo "to seek medical care CONUS,*" and points to a series of filings on the lawyer's health care crisis of a year ago. *Continental United States
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialNews: 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...
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialGood 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.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialLatest: The court is in recess until Wednesday when we expect another closed, national security hearing. No public, no defendant.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialPretrial hearings are in closed session today as the court works on national security documents (in lieu of live witnesses) the prosecution wants to present the jury.
@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialGood 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
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@carolrosenbergfeed.bsky.socialI am also hearing that the Army’s “Sanity Board” psychiatrist is arriving this weekend. More reports coming...
Meantime, background here:
www.justsecurity.org/158316/guant...