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May 16, 2024 · Carol Rosenberg reported from Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, and Charlie Savage reported from Washington. They have written about the wartime prison and related issues for more than two decades. May 16, 2024
Sep 13, 2024 · Two of the original case prosecutors, Robert “Bob” Swann and Edward Ryan, left the case in 2021 and 2024. For now, the primary prosecutors on the case are Clayton G. Trivett Jr. and Jeffrey D ...
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Five men are facing charges in the United States military tribunal at Guantánamo Bay of aiding the 19 men who hijacked passenger planesand crashed them into the World Trade Center, Pentagon and a Pennsylvania field on Sept. 11, 2001. The charges, which carry the death penalty, include conspiracy, murder in violation of the law of war and terrorism....
Before the coronavirus pandemic, a judge had set Jan. 11, 2021, to startselection of the military jury that will hear the case, and estimated that the trial could last a year. Since then, the timetable has been upended by changes in personnel as well as virus-related restrictions, meaning jury selection could start, at the earliest, on Aug. 9, 2021...
A total of 2,976 people are named as victims in the charge sheet. That total does not include people who died of diseases blamed on their work at the ruins of the World Trade Center. A liaison to the victims in the chief prosecutor’s office selects five people to observe the proceedings at Guantánamo from a pool of volunteer observers who include s...
In the midst of the pandemic, the chief judge for military commissions assigned Col. Stephen F. Keaneof the Marine Corps to preside in the case. Colonel Keane, the fourth judge to sit on the case, was at William and Mary Law School in a Pentagon-paid program at the time of the Sept. 11 attacks. He succeeded Col. W. Shane Cohen, who served for less ...
Khalid Shaikh Mohammed: The ‘Planes Operation’ Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, nicknamed KSM by the F.B.I., is accused of conceiving of the “Planes Operation” that became the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. He is alleged to have proposed it to Osama bin Laden in 1996 and to have overseen the plot, including training some hijackers in Afghanistan and Pakist...
All the lawyers and support staff who work in court — for both the prosecution and defense teams — must be United States citizens. They must also have obtained top secret security clearances with special access to intelligence information, because the defendants were previously held in the secret C.I.A. black site program. Prosecutors have higher l...
The military commissions, created by Congress in 2006 and reformed in 2009, are a hybrid of the military court-martial and federal criminal court systems. The judge and jury, called a panel, are members of the United States military. While both the prosecution and defense teams are required to have military lawyers on their teams, civilian lawyers ...
A jury of 12 military officers with perhaps as many alternates is to be drawn from a pool of active-duty military officers from any or all of the four services — the Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine Corps. The Pentagon overseer of the military commissions, called the Convening Authority, will create the pool from those “best qualified for the duty ...
Jul 22, 2024 · Robert Meeropol, the younger son of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg, was six years old in 1953 when his parents were executed. In the 1970s, he and his brother, Michael Meeropol successfully sued the FBI and CIA to force the release of 300,000 previously secret documents about their parents. In 2016 – in the wake of overwhelming new evidence ...
The FBI’s FOIA Library contains many files of public interest and historical value. In compliance with the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) requirements, some of these records are no longer in the physical possession of the FBI, eliminating the FBI’s capability to re-review and/or re-process this material.
Jun 19, 2018 · Leonard Detrick/NY Daily News/Getty Images. Michael Rosenberg was listening to The Lone Ranger on the radio when his entire world crumbled. The seven-year-old was engrossed in his favorite program ...
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May 25, 2024 · The trial of the Rosenbergs in March 1951 became an international sensation. The prosecution‘s case rested heavily on the testimony of David Greenglass and his wife Ruth, who had acted as a courier. To avoid being charged herself, Ruth implicated Ethel in typing up notes containing atomic secrets in the Rosenbergs‘ apartment.
