Mark Fallon
@markfallon.bsky.social
Director, ClubFed | Former NCIS Special Agent | SES (Ret.) | Author | Keynote Speaker | Expert Witness | Strategic Interviewing • National Security • Ethical Leadership | Films & Television
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“There is no legal authority for migrants to be detained at Guantánamo, especially in Camp 6,” said CVT’s Yumna Rizvi to Mohamud Farah in @sahanjournal.bsky.social Read the article:
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Somali ICE detainees held at Guantanamo Bay for weeks
Three Somali men, including two Minnesota men, describe weekslong detention, aggressive shackling, and constant surveillance at Guantanamo Bay.
sahanjournal.com
September 15, 2026 at 10:31 PM
“There is no legal authority for migrants to be detained at Guantánamo, especially in Camp 6,” said CVT’s Yumna Rizvi to Mohamud Farah in @sahanjournal.bsky.social Read the article:
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
sahanjournal.com/immigration/...
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Covered a lot of ground here: On the 9/11 case, the frustrated families and the coming first ever capital trial at Guantánamo Bay. (No, not the trial everybody's been talking about.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
New York Times journalist Carol Rosenberg discusses covering 9-11 plotters being held in Cuba
YouTube video by WPLG Local 10
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September 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Covered a lot of ground here: On the 9/11 case, the frustrated families and the coming first ever capital trial at Guantánamo Bay. (No, not the trial everybody's been talking about.)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSJL...
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Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it.
@nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
@nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
9/11’s Legacy of Torture
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture—or the law that enabled it.
www.lawfaremedia.org
September 14, 2026 at 7:09 PM
Twenty-five years after the war on terror began, the United States still hasn’t grappled with its legacy of torture or the law that enabled it.
@nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
@nkorpett.bsky.social explains why criminal and civil law (mostly) failed to hold torturers accountable and why that failure matters.
Tickets on sale now for the US premiere of #LeavingHotelCalifornia, at the Golden Isles Film Festival in beautiful downtown Brunswick, GA
@johnkiriakou.bsky.social
#Guantanamo
#Torture
#NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values
#TruthMatters
giff25.eventive.org/schedule
@johnkiriakou.bsky.social
#Guantanamo
#Torture
#NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values
#TruthMatters
giff25.eventive.org/schedule
September 14, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Tickets on sale now for the US premiere of #LeavingHotelCalifornia, at the Golden Isles Film Festival in beautiful downtown Brunswick, GA
@johnkiriakou.bsky.social
#Guantanamo
#Torture
#NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values
#TruthMatters
giff25.eventive.org/schedule
@johnkiriakou.bsky.social
#Guantanamo
#Torture
#NeverForget America is strongest when our actions match our values
#TruthMatters
giff25.eventive.org/schedule
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Day: 2
Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman.
In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman.
In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
July 1, 2026 at 11:22 AM
Day: 2
Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman.
In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
Yesterday in Vienna, first-ever OSCE event on US torture programs. CIA black sites to Abu Ghraib to Guantánamo. We named the victims: Abu Zubaydah, Aafia Siddiqui, Gul Rahman.
In the room: Mark Fallon, former NCIS agent, Chief Investigator for US Military Commissions.
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August 28, 2026 at 5:25 PM
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“The military commissions in Guantanamo have been a unique disaster that you can trace back to the whole effort to try to impose military justice — tough justice — led by Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the aftermath of 911,” says national security reporter at ProPublica Tim Golden.
September 14, 2026 at 12:55 PM
“The military commissions in Guantanamo have been a unique disaster that you can trace back to the whole effort to try to impose military justice — tough justice — led by Vice President Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld in the aftermath of 911,” says national security reporter at ProPublica Tim Golden.
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"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."
September 11, 2026 at 3:24 PM
"The institutions and the authorities that were put in place after 9/11 now being repurposed by the Trump administration."
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Thanks to @democracynow.org for inviting me on to talk about American courts and the "war on terror." I wrote about some of these issues for @thenation.com, too. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
September 13, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Thanks to @democracynow.org for inviting me on to talk about American courts and the "war on terror." I wrote about some of these issues for @thenation.com, too. www.thenation.com/article/worl...
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Latest: The Pentagon’s classification review team has finally released a lightly redacted version of this huge ruling. We hit the highlights in our story but here’s a link for those who want to wade through it, point out other key points. www.mc.mil/Portals/0/pd...
September 12, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Latest: The Pentagon’s classification review team has finally released a lightly redacted version of this huge ruling. We hit the highlights in our story but here’s a link for those who want to wade through it, point out other key points. www.mc.mil/Portals/0/pd...
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This is my contribution to The Times’ wide-ranging coverage this week for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The monument sits between the war court chamber and the office trailer where reporters work on their articles at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
September 8, 2026 at 7:14 PM
This is my contribution to The Times’ wide-ranging coverage this week for the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. The monument sits between the war court chamber and the office trailer where reporters work on their articles at the U.S. Navy base in southeast Cuba.
The men accused of orchestrating 9/11 haven't been tried. Where the case stands today
On the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, we look at the status of the 9/11 case -- which hasn't yet gone to trial -- and the war-on-terror prisoners still held at Guantanamo.
www.npr.org
September 11, 2026 at 11:40 AM
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Rejecting the plea agreements was, frankly, stupid and yet another slap in the face of the rule of law.
It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
September 6, 2026 at 11:56 AM
Rejecting the plea agreements was, frankly, stupid and yet another slap in the face of the rule of law.
It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
It also made the US look even more bloodthirsty and vengeful than the torture program had already made us look.
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Breaking: A week after the 9/11 trial judge's big decision that threw out a post-torture confession from KSM, the man of accused of being mastermind of the plot... the prosecution team decides they can go ahead without it, won't appeal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
Prosecutors Won’t Try to Reinstate Key 9/11 Confession Taken After Torture
The military’s lawyers said they feared an appeal could delay the trial of the man accused of masterminding the attacks, which is scheduled to start in mid-2028.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 9:02 PM
Breaking: A week after the 9/11 trial judge's big decision that threw out a post-torture confession from KSM, the man of accused of being mastermind of the plot... the prosecution team decides they can go ahead without it, won't appeal.
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/u...
TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and #Guantánamo Bay
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TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and Guantánamo Bay
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September 4, 2026 at 6:38 PM
TBT314 #shorts Mohamedou Speaks Out on Police Violence and #Guantánamo Bay
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ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says
An official who oversaw the vetting of ICE recruits cited an “unprecedented lowering of standards” amid a hiring surge.
www.nytimes.com
September 4, 2026 at 4:15 PM
ICE Skipped Basic Checks in Rush for Recruits, Whistle-Blower Says www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/u...
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I cannot believe 25 years have gone by with no accountability, and no support for the men we harmed.
That lack of accountability created Donald Trump.
That lack of accountability created Donald Trump.
The lack of accountability set a template. Obama theme of governance without a rear-view mirror. In 2012, he tweeted: "We don't look backwards, we look forward." Career outlooks were bright for top CIA officials who’d been implicated in Bush-era #torture.
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
How U.S. Torture Went Unpunished After 9/11
From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib to Washington’s intelligence elite, the architects and enablers of torture faced little accountability—and often moved up.
www.laprogressive.com
September 4, 2026 at 12:11 PM
I cannot believe 25 years have gone by with no accountability, and no support for the men we harmed.
That lack of accountability created Donald Trump.
That lack of accountability created Donald Trump.
The lack of accountability set a template. Obama theme of governance without a rear-view mirror. In 2012, he tweeted: "We don't look backwards, we look forward." Career outlooks were bright for top CIA officials who’d been implicated in Bush-era #torture.
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
How U.S. Torture Went Unpunished After 9/11
From Guantánamo and Abu Ghraib to Washington’s intelligence elite, the architects and enablers of torture faced little accountability—and often moved up.
www.laprogressive.com
September 4, 2026 at 11:55 AM
The lack of accountability set a template. Obama theme of governance without a rear-view mirror. In 2012, he tweeted: "We don't look backwards, we look forward." Career outlooks were bright for top CIA officials who’d been implicated in Bush-era #torture.
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...
www.laprogressive.com/law-and-just...