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Pakistan Arrests Suspect In Murder Of WSJ Reporter Daniel Pearl

Reuters | Posted 05.18.2013 | Media

ISLAMABAD, March 19 (Reuters) - Pakistan has arrested a former militant leader in connection with the 2002 murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Da...

Terrorist Linked To Daniel Pearl Murder Arrested In Pakistan

The Huffington Post | Meredith Bennett-Smith | Posted 03.19.2013 | Media

Authorities in Karachi, Pakistan, have arrested a high-ranking Sunni militant allegedly involved in the brutal slaying of Wall Street Journal journali...

WATCH: This Shady Gitmo Trial Is Really Not Okay

Posted 04.30.2013 | Comedy

On Wednesday's "Colbert Report," Stephen discussed a trial that hasn't been getting a lot of media attention: That of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the 9/11...

Ryan J. Reilly

Obama's Guantanamo Is Never Going To Close, So Everyone Might As Well Get Comfortable

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 02.21.2013 | Politics

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba -- In late January, shortly after President Barack Obama began his second term, Navy Cmdr. Walter Ruiz stood inside an...

Senior Gitmo Commander Didn't Know of Secret Surveillance Capabilities Under His Command

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.15.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

Questions about monitoring of privileged attorney-client communications continued to swirl around the pre-trial hearings taking place at Guantanamo Bay on Wednesday.

Gitmo Defense Lawyers Fear Gov't Spying On Detainees

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 04.13.2013 | World

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Lawyers for the five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks want to know if U.S. gove...

Lawyers Say Gitmo Audio Feed Can Capture Confidential Attorney-Client Communications

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.13.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

The trial of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his alleged co-conspirators still isn't anywhere near getting off the ground as the lawyers and judge are repeatedly stymied by the novelties of a high-security courtroom built on the remote U.S. military base in Cuba especially for this case.

9/11 Military Commission: More Tragedy Than Farce

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.03.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

It would almost be funny if it weren't so sad. Four days of military commission hearings at Guantanamo Bay this past week yielded little more than confusion about the law and heightened suspicion of the U.S. government.

Barack Obama, Drone Ranger

Bill Moyers | Posted 04.03.2013 | Politics
Bill Moyers

The story of bin Laden's death is just one aspect of the international manhunt the United States has pursued, a worldwide dragnet of detention and death that has raised troubling questions and fervent debate over the fight against terrorism.

Defense Seeks Suspension of 9/11 Hearings Due to Fears of Government Eavesdropping

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 04.02.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer on Thursday morning asked the military commission judge presiding over the trial of the five accused masterminds of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks to halt all court proceedings until the court could determine who might be listening in on defense lawyers' conversations.

Ryan J. Reilly

Guantanamo Judge Eliminates Secret Censor

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.31.2013 | Politics

GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military judge handling the trial of five detainees charged in connection with the Sept. 11 attacks ordered the gove...

Defense Lawyers Want Access to Secret Gitmo Prison Camp

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.31.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

Should defense lawyers in the September 11 terrorism case be allowed to visit the secret camp where their clients are imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay? And if so, how much access to the prison is enough?

Ryan J. Reilly

Guantanamo's Secret Censor Remains A Mystery

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.29.2013 | Politics

GUANTANAMO NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Judge Col. James Pohl insisted he was the only person who could close the military commission courtroom here a day after...

Not Only Does 9/11 Trial Have a Censor, But No One Can Know Who It Is (UPDATED)

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.31.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

A military commission judge's attempt to explain this morning why the 9/11 pre-trial hearing being held at Guantanamo Bay was briefly blacked out from observers yesterday has only caused more confusion.

Ryan J. Reilly

Secret Censor Cuts Public Access To Guantanamo 9/11 Case

HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 01.28.2013 | Politics

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba --A judge expressed frustration on Monday that an unknown U.S. government entity censored his courtroom audiovisual fee...

Secrecy Continues to Dominate 9/11 Hearings

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.30.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

It was another chaotic day at the Guantanamo military commissions. When Khalid Sheikh Mohammed's lawyer started talking this afternoon about his request for information pertaining to his client's case, someone -- it's not clear who -- hit the censor button.

Top Guantanamo Prosecutor Says He Hasn't Gone Rogue

Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Ryan J. Reilly

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Brig. Gen. Mark S. Martins -- currently at odds with the Obama administration on whether the U.S. military tribunal ...

Guantanamo Bay Lifts Spiral Notebook Ban

Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Ryan J. Reilly

GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- It's a new era of transparency at Guantanamo Bay's court facility: reporters can now bring spiral-bound notebooks --...

Obama's Gitmo, Four Years Later

Ryan J. Reilly | Posted 03.29.2013 | Politics
Ryan J. Reilly

ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE -- At around 8 a.m., a civilian airplane chartered by the military and full of lawyers, human rights representatives and journa...

Top 5 Reasons to Preserve the CIA Black Sites

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.27.2013 | Politics
Daphne Eviatar

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and his four co-conspirators have asked the government to preserve the notorious "black sites" where U.S. agents tortured detainees after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Here are five good reasons the government should do so.

Military Commission Won't Say Whether US Constitution Applies to 9/11 Case (Updated)

Daphne Eviatar | Posted 03.17.2013 | World
Daphne Eviatar

In an opinion not yet publicly released by the Office of Military Commissions, the judge presiding over the trial of the five co-defendants accused of masterminding the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks has said he won't decide whether the U.S. Constitution applies to the case.

Zero Dark Thirty Account of Torture Verified by Media Record of Legislators and CIA Officials

G. Roger Denson | Posted 03.02.2013 | Politics
G. Roger Denson

In the weeks surrounding the raid on bin Laden, the government, the intelligence community, the media, and the public displayed a wide variance of views on waterboarding. The intelligence community in particular seems marked by inconsistency and outright contradiction.

Judge Maintains Shroud Of Secrecy On 9/11 Trials

Reuters | Posted 02.11.2013 | World

By Jane Sutton MIAMI, Dec 12 (Reuters) - The U.S. military judge overseeing the Guantanamo prosecution of five alleged conspirators i...

How Did Alleged 'September 11 Mastermind' Get An Orange Beard?

Reuters | Jane Sutton | Posted 12.23.2012 | Weird News

By Jane Sutton GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Reuters) - Accused September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has been tinting...

Alleged 9/11 Mastermind Blasts U.S. For Killings

Reuters | Jane Sutton | Posted 10.18.2012 | World

GUANTANAMO BAY U.S. NAVAL BASE, Cuba, Oct 17 (Reuters) -- The alleged mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks told the Guantanamo courtroom on Wednesday th...