Carol Rosenberg

The U.S. has spent $40 million to jail about 400 migrants at Guantanamo Bay Early costs of the enterprise emerged over the weekend along with a statement from five senators who toured the base Friday and urged the Trump administration to “immediately cease this misguided mission.”

Fewer than 500 US immigration deportees have been held at Guantánamo Bay during the first three months of President Trump’s multi-million-dollar migrant mission. And those tents that troops put up in a hurry? Coming down and never been used. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/u...

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...

President Trump's remark about Iran and the USS Cole bombing 25 years ago has raised new questions in the longest running death-penalty case at Guantanamo Bay. Jury selection is scheduled to start June 1st. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/06/u...

Latest: I'm hearing that the military judge, defense and prosecution lawyers in this case met in a classified session at the war court's annex in Crystal City, Va., for two days this week. They held open court at Guantanamo Bay last week, then recessed until April. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

In case you missed this weekend: A war court prosecutor and defense attorney in the 9/11 case squared off at an appeals court over a government bid to resurrect interrogations a judge found to be tainted by torture. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

A block from the White House today, a Guantanamo prosecutor asked a Pentagon appeals court to overturn a military judge's torture ruling in the Sept. 11 case. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/27/u...

A Pentagon panel hears arguments today in the 9/11 prosecutor’s effort to resurrect the 2007 interrogations of a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. A military judge threw out the statements of a defendant in the case last year as the spoils of CIA torture, isolation and conditioning in the black sites.

Al Qaeda bombed the USS Cole a quarter century ago, killed 17 U.S. sailors. The trial of an accused conspirator is less than 100 days away. And the government is still trying to shore up its case. My dispatch on the longest running capital case at Guantánamo Bay. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/u...

Just checked... Nope, they still haven't hung a portrait of Private Lee at the outpost more than 200 days after they hurriedly rechristened the Army base in Virginia. The epilogue endures. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/u...

Good morning from the war court viewing site at Fort Meade. Lawyers and the judge in the USS Cole case are discussing streaming glitches. Yesterday's issue of the feed cutting off the top of tall lawyers' heads has been wrongly described as decapitation. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...

Good morning from frosty Fort Meade, Md., where the press room proctor has graciously provided a space heater -- and we are watching Judge Fitzgerald call the USS Cole case pretrial hearing to order at Camp Justice at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...

Good morning from snowy Fort Meade, Maryland, where the military is streaming today's pretrial hearing in the USS Cole case from Guantanamo Bay. The judge is presiding in the small courtroom, discussing detainee waiver procedures. Here's our Who's Who. www.nytimes.com/article/uss-...