Defense attorney Rick Kammen, of Indianapolis, sported a kangaroo lapel pin to the court's national security session on Friday, June 14, 2013, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, in a photo approved for release by the U.S. military.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo’s first secret national security session a mystery

Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday, a 78-minute secret session that excluded both the public and the accused al-Qaida terrorist.

U.S. Army military judge Col. James L. Pohl, shown in this July 7, 2005 file photo at Fort Hood, Texas, is the chief of the Guantanamo military commissions judiciary.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo judge orders first closed session of Obama war court

Judge orders first closed war court motions, locks out both accused and public in Guantánamo death penalty case. Photo Gallery Available

US Army Pfc. Bradley Manning is escorted out of a courthouse in Fort Meade, Md., United States, on June 4, 2013, the second day of his court martial. Manning is charged with indirectly aiding the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks. If convicted, he could be ordered to serve life in prison.

WikiLeaks trial focuses on Guantánamo detainee assessments

The court-marshal of an Army private who sent troves of classified documents to WikiLeaks is turning to information gathered from Guantánamo Bay detainees.

Defense attorney Rick Kammen said that, after years of carrying spiral notebooks to client meetings, the prison camps suddenly banned them. He asked the judge to order the camps’ commander to authorize the notebooks, as well as pens and eyeglasses, protesting “frankly arbitrary and nonsensical” restrictions by the current guard force.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo debate: When is a spiral notebook a weapon?

In continuing tug-of-war over attorney-client conditions, defense lawyer for alleged al-Qaida bomber asks Guantánamo judge to order prison to let attorney bring spiral notebooks, pens and eyeglasses to prison camp meetings.

Abd al Rahim al Nashiri is seen here during his military commissions arraignment, Nov. 9, 2011 in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Nashiri is charged with the attack on the USS Cole, resulting in the death of 17 sailors. If convicted in this capital military commission, Nashri could face the death penalty.

WAR COURT

New layer of secrecy at Guantánamo court

A classified motion in the case of a Saudi man accused of arranging the October 2000 USS Cole bombing is so secret that the public can’t know its name.

A changing of the soldier guards at the detention center at the U.S. Navy base Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Monday, Aug. 6, 2012.

Guantánamo gets troop surge, no special envoys

More than two weeks after the president promised a renewed effort to empty Guantánamo, two special senior envoy posts remain empty. Photo Gallery Available

In this file photo, President Barack Obama shakes hands with then-Deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 25, 2013, where he announced that he would name McDonough as his next chief of staff.

Guantánamo

White House official, senators tour Guantánamo

President Barack Obama’s chief of staff toured the Guantánamo detention center on Friday with Senators Dianne Feinstein and John McCain — and all three promptly issued a joint statement supporting closure of the controversial prison camps in southeast Cuba. Photo Gallery Available

Attorney General Eric Holder testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington,, June 6, 2013, before a Senate Appropriations subcommittee as lawmakers examine the budget for the Justice Department. Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantanamo prison it wants to close.

AG: US not using drones to avoid growing Guantánamo

Attorney General Eric Holder denied Thursday that the Obama administration is killing suspected terrorists with drone strikes to avoid capturing them and sending them to the Guantánamo prison it wants to close.

A U.S. soldier walks cellblock Bravo at Camp 5, the maximum-security lockup at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, on Thursday, April 18, 2013.

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo prison getting guard reinforcements

The Guantánamo prison already has more than 10 staffers for each captive. And the number is growing, thanks in part to the hunger strike.

Marine Gen. John F. Kelly, the commander of the U.S. Southern Command, answers questions during a press conference after a birthday party celebrating the 50th annviersary of creation of the headquarters, first in Panama, now based in Doral, on Tuesday, June 4, 2013.

Southcom general has nothing to offer Guantánamo hunger strikers

Marine Corps. Gen. John F. Kelly says military has no incentives to offer hunger strikers to halt their protest at Guantánamo; disagrees with President Barack Obama that the ‘enteral feedings’ equal force-feedings.

WAR COURT

Guantánamo captive accused in USS Cole bombing suffers from PTSD, depression

The man accused of orchestrating the bombing of a U.S. Navy warship that killed 17 suffers from PTSD and depression but is fit to stand trial, according to a military mental health assessment of the captive who’d been waterboarded.

In this May 13, 2009 file photo reviewed by the U.S. military, the sun rises over the Guantanamo detention facility at dawn, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In the camps

Pentagon: No weekend detainee release from Guantánamo

The Pentagon flatly refuted reports Saturday that it had released two men from the prison camps in Guantánamo Bay to Mauritania and said the most recent transfer took place nine months ago. Photo Gallery Available

Canadian Omar Khadr, at left before his capture in Afghanistan at age 15 and, at right, posing for an International Red Cross photo at Guantanamo in 2009.

Threat spurs Canada to move ex-Guantánamo prisoner Omar Khadr

The lawyer for a Canadian man who spent 10 years at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo says his client has been transferred from a prison in Ontario to one in Western Canada after another inmate threatened his life.

A screen grab from a military handout video dated April 10, 2013 offers a rare glimpse of a feeding chair in the prison camps psychiatric ward, called the Behavioral Medical Unit, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

In the camps

U.S. military force feeding a third of Guantánamo hunger strikers

U.S. Navy medical staff were on Sunday force feeding 35 captives at the prison camps at Guantánamo, a military spokesman said, noting that six of at least 103 hunger strikers were hospitalized.

O'Kelly Irish Pub at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, had a wifi hotspot in June.

Troops can tweet from Guantánamo again

U.S. troops can once again tweet and post on Facebook from the coffee shop, Irish pub and library at the U.S. Navy base at Guantánamo Bay, a base spokeswoman said Wednesday.

HUNGER STRIKE

Military defense lawyers cite My Lai massacre in plea to Hagel

Uniformed defense lawyers for alleged Guantánamo terrorists invoked the Vietnam War’s My Lai massacre in their bid to get Vietnam veteran Chuck Hagel to intervene in the prison camps.

A view of Camp 5, now Guantanamo's most populous prison,shows empty recreation yards through razor wire on Wednesday, April 17, 2013.

Pentagon wants $450M for Guantánamo prison

The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $450 million for maintaining and upgrading the Guantánamo Bay prison that President Barack Obama wants to close.

President Barack Obama speaks during a Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee event at the Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation, Sunday, May 19, 2013, in Atlanta.

War on terror

Obama to speak on prison, legality of drone program

President Barack Obama will discuss the legality of his administration’s secret drone program and his plans to close the prison camps at Guantánamo during a speech Thursday on counterterrorism practices, a White House official said.

Alleged al Qaeda kingpin Khalid Sheik Mohammed posed for this photo in July 2009, at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. It was taken by the International Committee of the Red Cross to be sent home for Ramadan, and first showed up on Arabic language websites seen as sympathetic to al Qaeda. It was the first known public picture since his widely circulated March 2003 capture photo of him rousted from sleep in Rawalpindi, Pakistan.

In the camps

Guantánamo hunger strike tally hits 102

Military officials would not comment on whether the current 102 hunger strikers include alleged 9/11 conspirators. Photo Gallery Available

A U.S. Navy corpsman at the Camp 6 medical clinic shows shelves of Ensure nutritional supplement used in forced feedings of hunger striking prisoners in this image approved for release by the military at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

IN THE CAMPS

Guantánamo: 30 of the 100 hunger strikers now being tube-fed

Guantánamo prison staff members were tube-feeding 30 of the 100 hunger-striking captives on Wednesday, the detention center said, reporting an all-time high last reached in 2005.

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