Guards impersonating US troops. A recorded call to prayer piped by intercom to each former CIA captive. Two hours a day in an outdoor cell, alone. The 9/11 trial judge heard descriptions of austere detention at Gitmo’s clandestine post-black site prison.
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The former Army officer testified described a security regime set up by the Bush administration in September 2006 as it acknowledged to the world, for the first time, that it had held and interrogated prisoners in secret sites around the world starting in 2002 with no #ICRC.
The hearing is back in session this Monday morning with more testimony from the anonymous former Army officer. He's testifying in a closed session today attended by defense attorneys, prosecutors, the judge and their support staff members. No defendants, no public.
Latest from the war court at Guantanamo: Today's closed session just ended. I'm hearing from multiple sources that the 9/11 hearing resumes at 10 a.m. -- and is closed all day tomorrow as well.
Update: It is possible there could be a 1 p.m. open court hearing tomorrow. Stay tuned.
Latest: A defense lawyer wants the admiral who oversaw all Guantanamo detention operations in 2006 to testify at a future hearing, fill in holes left by the Camp 7 commander's secret testimony.
The would-be witness is retired Adm. Harry Harris, now the U.S. ambassador in Seoul.
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