Front row seats at the Guantanamo military commissions. RT not confirm.
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The 9/11 pretrial hearings are still in the 'old' courtroom while the Bali bombings pretrial hearings happen in Guantanamo's newest courtroom. Details from @carolrosenberg here: nytimes.com/2024/04/17/us/…
Commissions called to order. All four defendants waived right to attend today's testimony of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Kimberly Waltz. Yesterday's testimony:
FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Kimberly Waltz will continue her testimony today. The last hearings ended with her on the stand under direct examination by the prosecution. Cross examination is expected all week in open public sessions and closed classified sessions.
There's a slight delay -- court was scheduled to begin at 0900 but may not begin until 0940. The judge is reviewing files at the bench sans robe, but in Air Force blues.
Military Commissions called to order. None of the four defendants are present in the courtroom this morning but Ammar al Baluchi is watching the proceedings nearby via CCTV.
None of the four defendants are present in court this morning.
We'll hear testimony from FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst Kimberly Waltz over the next couple of days. She'll be the 18th witness to testify on the issue of suppression of statements made by the defendants after they arrived at Guantanamo in 2006, post-CIA detention.
Take time to catch up on testimony from earlier this week. Dr. James Mitchell said Mr. Mohammad, aka Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, was slammed into a wall to stop him from talking about his involvement in 9/11 early in the RDI program. nytimes.com/2024/02/29/us/…
SA Hodgson was an Army CID agent who interviewed many individuals detained by the U.S. military. We should learn more about his background and experience today.
Get caught up on everything that happened last week before the interruption with this article from @lawdragon_news. lawdragon.com/news-features/…
While you wait. Article in the NYT regarding Mitchell's last testimony in January 2020. nytimes.com/2020/01/30/us/…
This week will be an examination of James Mitchell, continuing testimony that started all the way back in early-2020. Linked here is a refresher on his explosive testimony.
None of the four defendants are attending today. Though originally charged as five, Ramzi bin al Shibh was severed last year for mental incompetence. Background from @lawdragon_news here: lawdragon.com/news-features/…
1.5 hour delay but MilComs called to order
Over the next four weeks we'll hear continued testimony on suppression of statements the defendants made to the FBI after years of torture and incommunicado CIA detention at top secret black sites around the world
For your morning reading, SA Fitzgerald wrote a thesis titled "Stopping The Next Attack: How to Gain Intelligence From Suspects Detained Overseas" at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterrey, California. 
Judge McCall has called the Commission to order.
The Commission is called to order. Mr. Mohammad is the only defendant present.
Yesterday's session was closed all day with classified testimony from former FBI Special Agent Abigail Perkins and AD Maguire. The war court typically hears open testimony before closed but the order was switched for Maguire for economy of time.
The week's proceedings were stalled due to one of the lead attorneys testing positive for COVID. His attendance will need to be waived.