@markfallon.bsky.social
Director - ClubFed, LLC Interrogation expert consulting Instructing in the Tradecraft of #EffectiveInterviewing and science-based #interrogation Author - #UnjustifiableMeans Editor - Interrogation and Torture Editor - Interviewing and Interrogation
A reminder that before he was blowing up boats under supposed war authority based on bogus accusations of terrorism, the President sent hundreds of men to CECOT under supposed war authority based on bogus accusations of terrorism.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/08/w...
The Trump administration’s military strikes on alleged drug boats are “blatantly unlawful as a matter of U.S. domestic law—and a quickly spreading stain on whatever is left of the executive branch’s commitment to the rule of law.”
Me on “extrajudicial killings” in the latest issue of “One First”:
www.bbc.com/news/article...
The Bush administration ignored #RuleOfLaw, constructed prisons in #Guantanamo to indefinitely hold ‘suspects’ & operated secret ‘black sites’ where #torture was used under the guise it was safe, necessary & effective — it was not.
Trump is embracing unitary authority…
Dick Cheney’s role in the ‘war on terror’ may have paved the way for Trumpism
Cheney was a key protagonist in the push to invade Iraq, as well as the use of #torture on suspected al-Qaida members detained without charge in the CIA’s offshore “black sites”.
@theguardian.com calling torture torture.
It took years of shaming before we got NYT to call torture torture (they used Enhanced Interrogation Technique).
Open to suggestions how we accelerate the process here.
M-U-R-D-E-R
“Enhanced counternarcotics operations” are the new “enhanced interrogation techniques.”
www.cnn.com/2025/11/02/p...
Update: The judge in the USS Cole bombing case has canceled his pretrial hearing for that week as well. The war court will not reopen Nov. 10-14. No word yet on how the chamber, compound handled the storm.
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The Trump administration is engaged in an unprecedented legally disputed campaign of bombing suspected drug smuggling vessels from the air. We are tracking the offensive here.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
🚨Cleveland rocks!
Prosecutors & investigators reject “false evidence ploys” — deceptive practices — and are evolving to Science-Based Interviewing & #Interrogation.
Legacy tactics & the “confession obsession” contribute to #FalseConfessions/#WrongfulConvictions.
#EffectiveInterviewing rules!
Residents are still in shelters at the U.S. Navy base at Guantanamo Bay, which is still being whipped by dangerous winds. There has been damage on the 45-square-mile installation in southeast Cuba but everybody is said to be safe.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
The call for an ethics probe follows reporting from ProPublica that revealed a web of past business relationships involving border czar Tom Homan, his senior adviser Mark Hall, and consultants and firms seeking DHS contracts.
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Latest: The base commander at Guantánamo Bay has ordered non-mission-essential U.S. citizens to prepare to evacuate the outpost in southeast Cuba tomorrow ahead of Hurricane Melissa. The skipper earlier ordered ICE personnel to decamp to the mainland.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
Indications & Warnings in a report titled Accelerating Authoritarian Dynamics: Assessment of Democratic Decline released by the Steady State, a network of more than 340 former officers of the CIA, the NSA, the state department & other national security agencies.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
The Trump administration’s use of Guantánamo Bay to detain immigrants isn't just cruel — it's illegal.
The government can't weaponize offshore bases to violate people's rights.
This video accompanied my exploration of a curious collaboration between the military, prisoners and International Red Cross at Guantanamo Bay. You can read the article here. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
24.10.2025 19:32 — 👍 1 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0This is extrajudicial murder. It is illegal and unethical. And it is a pathetic use of American military force, demonstrating not strength but weakness.
22.10.2025 21:43 — 👍 2866 🔁 1039 💬 96 📌 34"The majority of them failed to meet ICE’s physical or academic standards, according to the data."
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NBC News finds that:
-- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six.
-- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam.
-- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph.
www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...
Fascinating reporting about #ForeverPrisoner fashion inside #Guantanamo by @carolrosenbergnyt.bsky.social @nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/video/us/100...
We're in court today to stop the unlawful detention of people who aren't citizens at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba.
The Trump administration thinks they can evade the law by sending people to an offshore prison, to scare people into giving up their rights. They're wrong.
Trump Lied and Will Now Demolish Entire East Wing www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
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Pentagon discloses the latest strike on suspect boats in the Caribbean -- No. 7 in its current campaign -- with another video, but no evidence. In a first, this one is alleged to have ties to the Colombian insurgency group the ELN.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/u...
ICE has cleared its facilities at Guantanamo Bay of migrants again; some 18 men have been deported to Guatemala and El Salvador.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/17/u...
