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Front row seats at the Guantanamo military commissions. Reposts ≠ confirm.
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![One said it looked “like a Nazi concentration camp." Other descriptions McCall cited include "a dungeon" and "something out of a horror show” with cells resembling "horse stalls." Yet another described the Salt Pit having "a stench like no other, enhanced by [the detainees'] fear." Such perspectives contrast sharply with the rough-but-professional narrative of the black sites that the CIA has presented to the public. Torture program co-architect Bruce Jessen, for instance, said the Salt Pit's "atmosphere was very good… nasty but safe."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:nx2hxdrsv3mivqwwvkq7xlqx/bafkreigrzrxo3bakxkaoci2oljovl3dc3754nlyiauypgekinhy7cpoy3e@jpeg)
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Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,
CIA Interrogator Said Infamous Black Site Looked “Like A Nazi Concentration Camp"
New disclosures from the military commissions underscore the depravity of the post-9/11 program—through the eyes of its practitioners, not just its victims.
www.forever-wars.com
May 26, 2025 at 8:24 PM
Some grim Memorial Day reading: a recent ruling in the 9/11 military commission reveals descriptions of one of the CIA’s most sadistic black sites — like, well,
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A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
Military Judge Throws Out Sept. 11 Case Confession as Obtained Through Torture
The critical question of whether the prisoner’s 2007 interrogations could be used at his capital trial has shadowed the case for years.
www.nytimes.com
April 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
A military judge has forbidden use of a 9/11 defendant's confession at his death-penalty trial, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation by the CIA. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...
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Latest: The military flew nine more migrants into the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay yesterday during Defense Secretary Hegseth’s visit with his former Fox colleague Laura Ingraham. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
Pete Hegseth, Trump’s Defense Secretary, Visits Guantánamo Bay
Mr. Hegseth served at the U.S. Navy base as a National Guard lieutenant. The base is now being used to hold some migrants who face deportation.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Latest: The military flew nine more migrants into the U.S. base at Guantánamo Bay yesterday during Defense Secretary Hegseth’s visit with his former Fox colleague Laura Ingraham. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/25/u...
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantánamo this week. And now he has entered the Sept. 11 Case fray.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
Defense Secretary Hegseth Enters the Sept. 11 Case Fray
The new Pentagon chief got a look at Guantánamo Bay’s most infamous inmate in his recent visit to the wartime prison.
www.nytimes.com
February 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth traveled to Guantánamo this week. And now he has entered the Sept. 11 Case fray.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/u...
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Men who were once imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay write about the detention of migrants there now: "We are not just survivors of Guantánamo. We are witnesses. And we will not let the world forget." www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants
"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
www.forever-wars.com
February 19, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Men who were once imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay write about the detention of migrants there now: "We are not just survivors of Guantánamo. We are witnesses. And we will not let the world forget." www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
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In their words … former detainees on the heart of darkness that defines Guantanamo
www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
Former Guantánamo Prisoners Condemn Trump’s Order on Migrants
"Guantánamo does not just allow abuse; it ensures cruelty," write sixteen people who know the real Guantánamo, not the propaganda
www.forever-wars.com
February 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
In their words … former detainees on the heart of darkness that defines Guantanamo
www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
www.forever-wars.com/former-guant...
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'Um desastre de direitos humanos': imigrantes enviados para os porões de Guantánamo sem que haja provas de crimes, por @tomphillips.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘A human rights disaster’: immigrants sent into Guantánamo black hole despite no proof of crime
Homeland security chief Kristi Noem claims the US is shipping ‘criminal alien murderers’ to the Cuba naval base – but the immigrants’ true stories remain enigmatic
www.theguardian.com
February 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
'Um desastre de direitos humanos': imigrantes enviados para os porões de Guantánamo sem que haja provas de crimes, por @tomphillips.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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“This is just another attempt by a sitting US president to weaponize the specter of Guantánamo.”
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports on the "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports on the "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
The "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
Lawyers fighting the transfers decry what would be a "giant open-air prison."
www.motherjones.com
February 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
“This is just another attempt by a sitting US president to weaponize the specter of Guantánamo.”
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports on the "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
@isabelaalhadeff.bsky.social reports on the "punitive theater" of Trump's plan to send immigrants to Guantánamo Bay
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The Supreme Court is responsible for allowing the Trump administration to turn Guantanamo Bay into a concentration camp for immigrants
How Courts Gifted Trump a Law-Free Zone to Kick Off Mass Deportations
Guantánamo Bay has operated as a constitutional no-man’s land for years. Now Donald Trump wants to use it to kick-start his mass deportations agenda.
ballsandstrikes.org
February 13, 2025 at 5:30 PM
The Supreme Court is responsible for allowing the Trump administration to turn Guantanamo Bay into a concentration camp for immigrants
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“The Pentagon's Rush to Staff Trump’s Guantanamo Migrant Prison Camp Should Terrify Us All”
Read Prem Thakker’s latest op-ed, and scoop, for Zeteo:
Read Prem Thakker’s latest op-ed, and scoop, for Zeteo:
The Pentagon's Rush to Staff Trump’s Guantanamo Migrant Prison Camp Should Terrify Us All
An 'urgent' internal request shows how quickly American institutions are implementing Trump’s drastic plan to detain migrants at the notorious island prison.
zeteo.com
February 13, 2025 at 11:29 PM
“The Pentagon's Rush to Staff Trump’s Guantanamo Migrant Prison Camp Should Terrify Us All”
Read Prem Thakker’s latest op-ed, and scoop, for Zeteo:
Read Prem Thakker’s latest op-ed, and scoop, for Zeteo:
Thank you @bellingcat.com!
This automated account uses ADS-B data to log all detectable aircraft flying in or out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.
Guantánamo Bay is a large navy facility and most flights are likely to be routine cargo and troop transports, not transport of detained people.
Guantánamo Bay is a large navy facility and most flights are likely to be routine cargo and troop transports, not transport of detained people.
February 15, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Thank you @bellingcat.com!
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NYT had a piece yesterday with all 53 names, and @bellingcat.com started a Gitmo tracker, for flights and ships, @gitmowatch.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 1:39 PM
NYT had a piece yesterday with all 53 names, and @bellingcat.com started a Gitmo tracker, for flights and ships, @gitmowatch.bsky.social
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Teen Vogue reports on how Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies weren’t the first time Guantánamo Bay imprisoned migrants. During the mid 1990s, Haitians fleeing their homeland seeking for a better life instead ended up there imprisoned.
www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
Trump’s Plan for Mass Detention at Guantánamo Has Happened Before. It Was a Disaster.
Haitian kids and teens known as the "ghosts of Guantánamo" were imprisoned at the notorious Camp Nine.
www.teenvogue.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Teen Vogue reports on how Donald Trump’s mass deportation policies weren’t the first time Guantánamo Bay imprisoned migrants. During the mid 1990s, Haitians fleeing their homeland seeking for a better life instead ended up there imprisoned.
www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
www.teenvogue.com/story/trump-...
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🚨SCOOP: ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
migrantinsider.com/p/ice-transf...
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
migrantinsider.com/p/ice-transf...
ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo (SCOOP)
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
migrantinsider.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:27 AM
🚨SCOOP: ICE Transfers Venezuelan Barber to Guantánamo
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
migrantinsider.com/p/ice-transf...
Another Latino with no criminal record (but four tattoos) gets disappeared offshore by the Trump administration.
migrantinsider.com/p/ice-transf...
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Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'
Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'
The use of Guantánamo Bay for migrant detention is neither a last resort nor a necessity but rather a costly and ineffective policy choice, the Niskanen Center argues.
www.latintimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Experts Describe Trump's Use of Guantanamo Bay to Detain Migrants as Multi-Billion-Dollar 'Political Theater'
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Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
Family of Venezuelan Migrant Sent to Guantánamo: ‘My Brother Is Not a Criminal.’
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the United States so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
www.nytimes.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:55 AM
Luis Alberto Castillo arrived in the U.S. so that he could “give everything to his son,” said his sister. Then, while scrolling on TikTok, she found out he was headed to Guantánamo.
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Just in: No war court hearings at Guantanamo Bay this month. The 9/11 judge has cancelled his February hearings as we await a decision on the plea deal from the Circuit Court. Up next: USS Cole pretrial hearings March 10-21. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...
Trial Guide: The Sept. 11 Case at Guantánamo Bay
The case against the men accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11, 2001, hijackings that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, at the Pentagon and in Pennsylvania.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Just in: No war court hearings at Guantanamo Bay this month. The 9/11 judge has cancelled his February hearings as we await a decision on the plea deal from the Circuit Court. Up next: USS Cole pretrial hearings March 10-21. www.nytimes.com/article/sept...
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It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
Three migrants win temporary block from potential transfer to Guantanamo
It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
www.npr.org
February 10, 2025 at 6:32 PM
It is the first legal hurdle thrown up to the Trump administration as it seeks to send thousands of migrants to a detention facility on the naval base near Cuba.
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Update: A federal judge has barred the U.S. government on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan men to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from an ICE facility in New Mexico.
Breaking News: Some Venezuelan migrants in the Southwest have asked a federal court to block the U.S. from sending them to Guantánamo.
---The litigation has begun and my colleague #charliesavage has the scoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
---The litigation has begun and my colleague #charliesavage has the scoop.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/09/u...
Venezuelan Migrants Ask Court to Block U.S. from Sending Them to Guantánamo
The three men, who are detained in New Mexico, say they “fit the profile” of the type of migrants the Trump administration has started sending to the Navy base.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Update: A federal judge has barred the U.S. government on Sunday from sending three detained Venezuelan men to the Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, from an ICE facility in New Mexico.
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En español también
www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...
www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...
Una ciudad de tiendas de campaña está surgiendo en Guantánamo
Estas son las primeras imágenes independientes de la operación para migrantes que el gobierno de Trump ha iniciado en la base naval.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
En español también
www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...
www.nytimes.com/es/2025/02/0...
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We showed you the first independent images of the emerging migrant operations at Guantanamo Bay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
A Tent City Is Rising at Guantánamo Bay
These are the first independent images to emerge from the migrant operation that the Trump administration has begun at the Navy base.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:15 PM
We showed you the first independent images of the emerging migrant operations at Guantanamo Bay.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/u...
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Catching up? We found a forever gag order on post 9/11 CIA ops in the reputed mastermind's would-be guilty plea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
Sept. 11 Plea Deal Includes Lifetime Gag Order on C.I.A. Torture Secrets
The clause is included in a disputed plea agreement between a Pentagon official and the man accused of planning the attacks that killed 3,000 people.
www.nytimes.com
February 10, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Catching up? We found a forever gag order on post 9/11 CIA ops in the reputed mastermind's would-be guilty plea.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/07/u...
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Excellent resource. I highly suggest also following @gitmowatch.bsky.social, where people who already have base access provide updates on what's happening on the ground (and have for a long time).
Our team has launched a tracker account for flights in and out of the US naval base and detention camp at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The tracker is based on open data from ADS-B signals. Check it out here @gtmowatch.bsky.social
February 7, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Excellent resource. I highly suggest also following @gitmowatch.bsky.social, where people who already have base access provide updates on what's happening on the ground (and have for a long time).