by Tyler Pager | Mar 19, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — It’s movie night in downtown Gitmo. The feature showing on the outdoor screen on the warm Wednesday night: American Sniper. As couples and small groups in plain clothes choose their seats, others stop...
by Tyler Pager | Mar 17, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A group of men in orange jumpsuits are kneeling. Their hands are shackled and their mouths are covered with light blue surgical masks. Military guards stand watch. It is one of the iconic images of...
by Tyler Pager | Mar 13, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Only a handful of news organizations were represented at the latest installment in the trial of the alleged co-conspirators of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. A major factor in the lack of robust...
by Tyler Pager | Mar 10, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager WASHINGTON — The United States and Cuba do not agree on what closing Guantanamo Bay means, and the disagreement could prevent relations between the two countries from fully normalizing. For the U.S., it means shutting down the controversial detention...
by Tyler Pager | Mar 3, 2015 | Politics, Topics
WASHINGTON – The speech generated more buzz than the State of the Union, yet some key members of Congress were absent. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke Tuesday to a joint meeting of Congress about the importance of not settling for a bad nuclear deal...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 27, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba – The Pentagon rescinded its order Friday that forced military judges to relocate to Guantanamo Bay. The order, known as Change 1, was an effort to speed up the military commissions, but instead delayed proceedings in both...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 27, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Three of the highest ranking military legal officers will testify Friday afternoon on whether the Pentagon was unlawfully involved in the USS Cole bombing trial. The presiding judge, Air Force...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 27, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager and Paige Leskin The court will hear testimony Friday from The Judge Advocate Generals of the U.S. Army and the U.S Air Force. The defense called the two officials to speak on a senior Pentagon official’s order that the military judge must move to...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 26, 2015 | National Security
[rev_slider DowntownGitmo] Downtown Guantanamo Bay looks like any American small town. It has two outdoor movie theaters, a large sports complex, a McDonald’s, a bowling alley and a library. It offers service members and their families the opportunity to...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 26, 2015 | National Security
[rev_slider XRay] Camp X-Ray was the first detention center established at Guantanamo Bay and held detainees from mid-January 2002 to mid-April 2002. It was originally constructed in the 1990s to hold the criminals who arrived with Cuban and Haitian...
by Tyler Pager | Feb 26, 2015 | National Security, Topics
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by Tyler Pager | Feb 26, 2015 | National Security
By Tyler Pager GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL STATION, Cuba — An order to relocate military judges to Guantanamo will not immediately delay the trial of the alleged mastermind of the USS Cole bombing, though it is slowing down the trial of 9/11 terror suspect Khalid Sheik...
