Good morning from Guantanamo's Camp Justice. We expect an open 9/11 pretrial hearing later today. The defense team at @GitmoWatch are tweeting their suspicions about some sort of new communication link between the prosecution and intel agencies from inside the #SCIF courtroom.
@GitmoWatch The open hearing is getting a late start this morning because the judge is holding an ex parte hearing with the defense team of Ramzi bin al-Shibh on some sort of unilateral matter. The subject is a secret but that team has been dealing with this...
nytimes.com/2019/08/14/us/…
@GitmoWatch Meantime, some reading on what it will take, in terms of logistics, to hold a 9/11 capital trial at Guantanamo...
nytimes.com/2020/02/09/us/…
Heading to the court. Will catch you up later.
BREAKING: A long-serving defense lawyer is seeking to leave the 9/11 case, casting doubt on whether the trial can begin at Guantanamo as scheduled next year.
nytimes.com/2020/02/11/us/…
The development forced cancellation of this week's testimony by a former FBI agent named James M. Fitzsimmons, who questioned 9/11 defendant Ammar al Baluchi soon after his capture in Pakistan in 2003.
Under the judge's timetable for written motions to be filed on the capital defense lawyer's request to leave the case, the soonest court could be back in open session is Friday for legal arguments on whether Mr. Harrington should be permitted to withdraw.
Updated: The defense lawyer seeking to leave the 9/11 case has a heart condition, asked to be released from the case today on a doctor's advice following a checkup last month. He is 75.
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