From WNYC in New York, this is NPR's On the Media.

I'm Brooke Gladstone.

And I'm Bob Garfield.

In 2002, U.S. forces captured 15-year-old Canadian-born militant Omar Cotter during a raid on an al-Qaeda camp in Afghanistan.

Badly wounded during the raid, Cotter spent time recuperating at

Bagram Air Base, where prosecutors say he confessed to, among other things, planting landmines

and killing an American soldier with a grenade, all of which earned him a trip to Guantanamo

Bay, where he was deemed an enemy combatant and charged by the United States

with murder.

Connor's military tribunal is now underway, but his defense attorneys argued recently that his

confession should be thrown out because they say it was coerced.

To help make their case, they called as a witness the alleged coercer, identified

in court as Interrogator 1. Now, according to the ground rules for reporters covering such tribunals,

anonymous witnesses cannot be named. So when three Canadian journalists and the Miami Herald's

Carol Rosenberg did just that last week,

they were barred by the Pentagon from further coverage of any and all trials at Guantanamo.

Rosenberg is the most veteran of all reporters covering Gitmo, which raises the question,

why would she break the rules? She joins me now.

Hey, Carol, welcome back to the show.

Hi, Bob.

Okay, before we get to the particulars of your dispute with the Pentagon here,

I want to talk for a moment about this ex-soldier called Interrogator One.

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