Guantanamo war court process is a ‘cluster covfefe’, says al-Qaeda terrorist awaiting sentencing

A confessed al-Qaeda terrorist turned US government informant who is awaiting sentencing at Guantanamo complained to a war court judge this week of problems between his attorneys and prosecutors at a brief war court hearing ahead of his 2019 sentencing.

“Over the last past six years, I’ve … been struggling with this whole process and the whole military commission system is pretty stagnant,” prisoner Majid Khan, a suburban Baltimore high school graduate, told a new judge on his case Tuesday, according to a transcript released by the Pentagon.

“I call it ‘cluster covfefe,’ ” the Pakistani citizen added, using a made-up word or typo that President Donald Trump tweeted a year ago, in a midnight commentary about negative press coverage.

Khan, 38, a Pakistani former legal US resident, is awaiting sentencing next year on charges of conspiring with al-Qaeda, murder, attempted murder and spying, under a plea agreement that permits his release from the prison in 13 years. He was held and tortured for more than three years in the CIA’s secret prison network, according to his lawyers and the Senate Intelligence Committee’s declassified version of the so-called Torture Report.

Without explaining further, he told the judge that his lawyers and prosecutors weren’t getting along. “I hear a lot of ominous language from prosecutors all the time, so I don’t know where I am standing,” he said, adding that he preferred a more “amicable milieu.”