Carol Rosenberg

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carol Rosenberg

The three-month-old operation never expanded to fulfill President Trump's vision of housing 30,000 at the offshore U.S. base. American military forces have taken down some of the tents they hurriedly set up on an empty corner of the U.S. naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, three months after President Trump ordered preparations to house up to 30,000 migrants at the base. No migrants were ever held in the tents, and no migrant surge has ever occurred.

1 week ago | flipboard.com | Carol Rosenberg

NowAP — Three people were killed, four were injured and nine others are missing after a small boat overturned early Monday in the ocean off San Diego, sheriff’s officials said. Agencies including the U.S. Coast Guard responded around 6:30 a.m. following reports of a capsized panga-style boat near Torrey …

1 week ago | nytimes.com | Carol Rosenberg

The trial had been set to begin on Oct. 6, days before the 25th anniversary of the attack that killed 17 U.S. sailors on the destroyer Cole. A military judge on Monday postponed the trial in Al Qaeda's 2000 bombing of the U.S. Navy destroyer Cole until next year to give defense lawyers more time to prepare for the death penalty case. The judge, Col. Matthew S. Fitzgerald, announced the new start date for the trial - June 1, 2026 - at a pretrial hearing at the naval station at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba.

2 weeks ago | nytimes.com | Carol Rosenberg

Prosecutors have said they will appeal the decision, although they lost a similar appeal this year. When a military judge threw out a defendant's confession in the Sept. 11 case this month, he gave two main reasons. The prisoner's statements, the judge ruled, were obtained through the C.I.A.'s use of torture, including beatings and sleep deprivation.

1 month ago | spokesman.com | Carol Rosenberg

WASHINGTON — A military judge on Friday threw out the confession that a man accused of conspiring in the Sept. 11 attacks made to federal agents in 2007 at Guantánamo Bay, ruling the statements were the product of a campaign of torture and isolation carried out by the CIA. The ruling by Col. Matthew N. McCall was the latest setback to prosecutors in their long-running quest to bring the death-penalty case to trial, despite the years the five defendants had spent in secret CIA prisons.