Military commissions should require rights warnings before national-security interrogations

Defence of a state against external and internal threats, spanning intelligence services, military operations, counterterrorism and the classification of information. Covers the tension between secrecy and oversight, and the agencies whose work is largely conducted beyond public view.

Military judge Michael Schrama’s October 7, 2026 ruling excluded FBI statements by Walid bin Attash in the Guantánamo prosecution over the September 11 attacks. Schrama’s decision left prosecutors without clean-team confessions from any defendant, while appeals remained undecided.