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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Al-Qaeda, Col. Stephen Henley, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Taliban, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Tarek El-Sawah, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Col. James Pohl, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Abdul Ghani, Ahmed Al-Darbi, Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics, World News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions to try Guantanamo detainees have rarely grabbed the media attention that a novel, flagship program to try "terror suspects" should have attracted.

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New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Col. Stephen Henley, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Maj. David Frakt, Convening Authority, Col. Mike Chapman, Capt. Patrick McCarthy, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Terrorism, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo,...

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The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Terrorism, David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Daniel Dell'Orto, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Scott Horton, William J. Haynes II, Maj. David Frakt, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

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Seized at 15, Omar Khadr turns 22 in Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Nathan Whitling, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Omar Khadr, Dennis Edney, UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, Col. Peter Brownback, Military Commissions, Home News
Andy Worthington

Today, Omar Khadr, the sole Canadian citizen in Guantánamo, marks his 22nd birthday in isolation. Seized in Afghanistan when he was just 15 years old...

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Controversy Still Plagues Guantanamo's Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Terrorism, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Maj. David Frakt, Omar Khadr, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Charles "Cully" Stimson, Abdul Ghani, Brig. Gen. Gregory Zanetti, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Lost in the coverage of Hamdan's trial, which dominated media reports about Guantanamo was the fact that a twenty-third prisoner had been put forward for trial by Military Commission on July 28.

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