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Interrogations

Detainees in orange jumpsuits sit in a holding area under the watchful eyes of military police during inprocessing at the temporary detention facility at Guantanamo Bay's Camp X-Ray in this January 11, 2002 file photograph.

He blew the whistle on CIA torture, and now he’s finally home from jail — and talking

Justice

Former CIA officer John Kiriakou is the man who first confirmed that the CIA was using waterboarding to torture detainees. He’s also the only person to ever go to jail over the CIA’s torture program. Now he’s home on house arrest, and speaking out about his concerns over the future of vital leaks.

Mohamedou Ould Slahi has been imprisoned at Guantánamo since 2002 without charges.

US censors make 2,500 cuts to first-ever published diary by Guantanamo detainee

Books
A guard shuts the gate to the airport in Szymany, Poland, in 2005. Polish media said the airport was identified by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged CIA prisons used to interrogate al-Qaeda captives.

Poles say aiding the CIA’s torture program ‘was simply being a good ally’

Justice

Osama bin Laden’s relative faces trial in U.S. despite criticism

Conflict & Justice

Chaos, controversy mark latest military commission hearings in Guantanamo

Global Politics

Guantanamo pre-trial hearings begin for alleged masterminds of 9/11 attacks

Conflict & Justice

Pre-trial hearings began Monday in the case against five men accused of terrorism, including Khalid Sheik Mohammed. But a reporter from the Miami Herald says the hearings could be complicated by questions about how the defendants were detained.

The World

Khalid Sheik Mohammed’s Secret Vacuum Cleaner Design

Conflict & Justice

This week we learned something we didn’t know about Khalid Sheik Mohammed. When he was first held a decade ago in secret CIA prisons in Eastern Europe, his handlers allowed him to design a vacuum cleaner.

The 9/11 Trial: Dispute Over Monitoring Defendants Continues

The revelation two weeks ago that an external monitor was remotely censoring the courtroom feed at the trial of 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four other defendants continues to reverberate here at Guantanamo. […]

More Glitches at Trial of September 11th Suspects at Guantanamo

Conflict & Justice

The special tribunal in Guantanamo trying five suspects in the 9/11 attacks resumed Tuesday. It was suspended Monday over defense attorneys complaints about possible infractions of client confidentiality.

Families of September 11 Victims Follow Hearings from Guantanamo

For some people watching the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the alleged mastermind of the September 11 attacks, there was a simple question: Is that man responsible for the death of my loved one? That was the simple, non-legal question likely on the minds of the four families whose loved ones […]