America's Trial
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America's Trial

Torture and the 9/11 Case on Guantanamo Bay

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eBook - ePub

America's Trial

Torture and the 9/11 Case on Guantanamo Bay

About this book

The behind-the-scenes look at the biggest—and perhaps the strangest—case in US history: the prosecution of the five detainees accused of planning 9/11.

Told with exceptional and colorful detail, America’s Trial is the only comprehensive account of the effort to prosecute the five Guantanamo Bay detainees accused of planning the worst crime in US history—the September 11th terrorist attacks. While ignored by most media outlets, the result has been a riveting courtroom drama to determine if a democracy has the legal and moral authority to prosecute the men it previously tortured. Our government, so willing to break from norms and its own values with the CIA rendition program, has spent a maddening amount of time trying to fit the victims of illegal interrogations into a court of law. America’s Trial captures these events from the vantage point of one of only two journalists in the world to live part-time on the base over the past ten years.

In telling this story over fifty-five reporting trips, award-winning journalist John Ryan takes readers into an ecosystem that so few get to see, capturing the unique life experience of having one of the most notorious places on earth as a second home. The historic legal effort is inseparable from the surreal context and the absurdities of hosting the biggest case in US history in what is effectively a small Caribbean beach town. America’s Trial serves as a necessary bookend to events that have defined much of the war on terror.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Half-Title Page
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright Page
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter 1 Preparation.
  7. Chapter 2 First Trip. September 2015.
  8. Chapter 3 U.S. v. KSM. October 2015.
  9. Chapter 4 Dirty Laundry. December 2015.
  10. Chapter 5 Movie Day. February 2016.
  11. Chapter 6 The 9/11 Attacks. May–June 2016.
  12. Chapter 7 The Missing Black Site. July–August 2016.
  13. Chapter 8 End of Year One—The Sodomy Files. October–December 2016.
  14. Chapter 9 Trumpland. January–May 2017.
  15. Chapter 10 Black Site Still Missing. August 2017.
  16. Chapter 11 Transparency.
  17. Chapter 12 Enter the FBI. December 2017.
  18. Chapter 13 The Prohibitions. January–April 2018.
  19. Chapter 14 Mic Drop. July–August 2018.
  20. Chapter 15 Rich and Vivid Accounts. September– November 2018.
  21. Chapter 16 Mic Drop II. December 2018–May 2019.
  22. Chapter 17 The Never Ending Tour—Killing Time.
  23. Chapter 18 Breaking Guantanamo. June–July 2019.
  24. Chapter 19 Suppression. September 2019.
  25. Chapter 20 What Makes a Black Site a Black Site? October–November 2019.
  26. Chapter 21 Dr. Mitchell. January 2020.
  27. Chapter 22 Dr. Mitchell v. KSM.
  28. Chapter 23 The Long Goodbye. February 2020.
  29. Chapter 24 Pandemic and Return. March 2020– August 2021.
  30. Chapter 25 Twentieth-Anniversary Reboot. September 2021.
  31. Chapter 26 The Silent Treatment. March 2022– September 2023.
  32. Chapter 27 Suppression II—The “Flaming Bag of Crap.”
  33. Chapter 28 2024—Trifurcation.
  34. Chapter 29 Fives Are Wild.
  35. Chapter 30 End in Sight.
  36. Chapter 31 Ghost Town.
  37. Chapter 32 2025—Game of Inches.
  38. Chapter 33 An “End.”
  39. Acknowledgments
  40. Sources and Bibliography
  41. Index