Guantanamo Torture

National Security As Culture War: Why Civil Libertarians Lose the Argument

Jimmy Soni | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Civil Liberties, Anwar Al Awlaki, Bush Administration Torture, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Barack Obama, Torture, Politics News
Jimmy Soni

Why is Guantanamo still open? Why has there been no public accounting for the use of torture? Why does President Obama successfully claim the right to assassinate American citizens living abroad? And why do civil libertarians lose arguments of this sort time and again?

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The Shame of Guantánamo: A Close-Up View of Injustice

Anthony D. Romero | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Guantanamo, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Barack Obama, Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Closing Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Anthony D. Romero

I have now been to Guantánamo six times. Nothing I've seen has changed my view that the military commissions are unworkable. The system is set up to guarantee convictions and hand down death sentences, nothing more.

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Interrogators Speak Out: Torture is Illegal, Immoral and Ineffective

Mark Fallon | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Unlawful Torture, Interrogation, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, CIA Torture, Interrogaters, Abu Graib, Torture, Anti-Torture, Crime News
Mark Fallon

Every interrogation starts with analysis. That is, getting to know the detainee, researching their background, exploring their relationships with others, reviewing any available information and figuring out what makes them tick.

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Republicans On Torture, Post-Osama Bin Laden: Defending Against Prosecution?

Carla Seaquist | Posted 07.10.2011

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Osama Bin Laden Dead, Karl Rove, George W. Bush, Congressman Peter King, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, Osama Bin Laden Killed, John Yoo, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Osama Bin Laden, War Crimes, Bush Administration Torture, Abu Ghraib Torture, Guantanamo Torture, Enhanced Interrogations, Torture Memos, International Court of Justice, Torture, Politics News
Carla Seaquist

In these days since President Barack Obama announced that a SEAL team killed Osama bin Laden, the world's most wanted terrorist, notice how quickly Re...

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Thank You Republicans For Guantanamo

Dal LaMagna | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Obama Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Politics News
Dal LaMagna

After creating a tremendous stain on the reputation of our nation, the Republicans are criticizing Obama because he is not fixing their problem fast enough. This is another instance of the arsonists criticizing the fire department.

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Now Showing in the Theatre of Public Apology

Kyle G. Brown | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Trials, Guantanamo Apology, Guantanamo Detainees, Omar Khadr, World News
Kyle G. Brown

After years of whining about torture, mistreatment and mock justice in Guantanamo Bay, Omar Khadr finally understood: he simply had to apologize.

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Guantánamo, Exception or Rule? All-American Justice for a Child Soldier at Obama's Gitmo

Chase Madar | Posted 05.25.2011

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Chase Madar

Gitmo, a betrayal of American values? Would that it were! Alas, for nearly every grisly tabloid feature of the Khadr case, you can find an easy analog in our everyday criminal justice system.

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Gitmo 5-Year Hunger Striker Has Begun Eating Solid Food, Officials Tell Court

AP | BEN FOX | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hunger Strike, Abdul Rahman Shalabi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Hunger Strike, Indefinite Detention, Politics News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo prisoner who has been on a hunger strike for more than five years is occasionally eating solid food, but is...

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Will Guantanamo Psychologists Lose Their Credentials?

Mother Jones | Daniel Schulman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gitmo Shrinks, Guantanamo Ethics, Guantanamo Psychologists, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo Ethics, Guantanamo Detainees, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Doctors, Gitmo Doctors, Guantanamo Shrinks, Politics News

If their aim was to break him, his interrogators apparently succeeded. By late November 2002, Mohammed al-Qahtani--a suspected Al Qaeda operative some...

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Sgt. Joshua Claus, Guantanamo Interrogator, Told Canadian Teen Prisoner He'd Be Raped In U.S.

McClatchy | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011

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GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba -- To get teen terror suspect Omar Khadr to cooperate, a former U.S. Army interrogator testified Thursday, he told the wounded Ca...

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The Sad Saga Continues in Guantanamo Bay

Jonathan Tracy | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jonathan Tracy

After sixteen months of the Obama administration, it is a sad fact that we have not made appreciable shifts away from Bush's military commission polices.

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Conservative and Liberal Pillagers Master the Art of Pandering

Morris Davis | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Liz Cheney, Sarah Palin, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Torture, Fox News, Glenn Beck, Gitmo Torture, Newt Gingrich, Gitmo Detainees, Tea Party, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Morris Davis

In an age when the public seems to have the attention span of a gnat, buzz words and trite slogans get traction. It doesn't matter if there is any real substance behind the words so long as they stick.

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George W. Bush Knew Guantánamo Prisoners Were Innocent, Reports Times Of London

Times Online | Tim Reid | Posted 05.25.2011

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George W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld covered up that hundreds of innocent men were sent to the Guantánamo Bay prison camp because they fea...

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"Courage, Muslim Brothers": How My Friends At Catholic Worker Stood Up To Guantánamo Cover-Up

Sander Hicks | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Catholics, Religion, Witness Against Torture, Guantanamo, Catholic Workers, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Guantanamo Suicides, Catholic Worker Movement, Torture, Religion News
Sander Hicks

Forty-two Catholic peace radicals were arrested at the U.S. Capitol Building, protesting torture and the cover-up surrounding three 2006 Guantánamo detainee deaths, on January 21, 2010.

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Omar Deghayes: How I Fought To Survive Guantánamo

The Guardian | Patrick Barkham | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Libya, Abuse, Pakistan, Omar Deghayes, Guantanamo Detainees, Gitmo, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Detainee Abuse, Torture, World News

It is not hot stabbing pain that Omar Deghayes remembers from the day a Guantánamo guard blinded him, but the cool sen­sation of fingers being stabb...

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Guantanamo Accountability

Mike Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Guantanamo Torture, Senate, Pentagon, Eric Holder Attorney General, Guantánamo Bay, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News
Mike Smith

Common Cause recently sponsored a compelling session at the National Press Club on prisoner abuse, military commissions trying detainees, and who is responsible for torturous interrogations at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

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Supreme Court Rejects Guantanamo Detainees' Torture Case

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court has refused to take up an appeal from former Guantanamo Bay detainees who say they were tortured and denied relig...

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The Weakness of Liz Cheney

Jon Soltz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Freedoms Watch, Keep-America-Safe, Liz Cheney, Terrorism, votevets.org, Guantanamo Supermax Prison, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Ari Fleischer, Waterboarding, Brad Blakeman, Votevets, Supermax, Torture, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Jon Soltz

In the end, Liz Cheney and Keep America Safe are just a re-run of what was already tried and failed in 2008. Namely, using the veil of fear to mask an un-informed, false, and weak position.

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Bush Interrogators Used "Abdominal Slaps" To "Instill Fear And Despair"

Raw Story | Larisa Alexandrovna | Posted 05.25.2011

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The following article was produced by The Raw Story and written by Larisa Alexandrovna. Recently declassified documents on the Bush administration i...

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A Truly Shocking Guantanamo Story: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

The U.S. government tortured an innocent man to extract false confessions and then threatened him until he obligingly repeated those lies as though they were the truth.

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The Tangled Roots of the Terror Psychology: J. Robert Lennon's Novel "Castle"

Anis Shivani | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fascism, Bush Administration Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Torture, Castle, J. Robert Lennon, War on Terror, Torture, Abu Ghraib, Politics News
Anis Shivani

Lennon's unusual, very ambitious novel brings us closer to the terror protagonist than any post-9/11 novel yet.

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Duty vs. Conscience at Gitmo: A Former 9/11 Prosecutor Speaks Out

Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamedou Ould Slahi, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Torture, Michael Horrocks, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Stuart Couch, Detainee, Torture, Politics News
Joel B. Schwartzberg

Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Couch says alleged 9/11 conspirator Mohamedou Ould Slahi was tortured at the U.S. prison in Guantanamo Bay.

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What's the Big Deal?

Jane Smiley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: War Crimes, Bush Administration, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Gitmo Torture, Bush Torture, Cia Memos, Gitmo, Dick Cheney, Republicans, Torture, Jane Smiley, Politics News
Jane Smiley

Make no mistake, if we as a nation sweep the Bush crimes, committed both here and abroad, under the rug because we're too lazy or afraid or "poor" to investigate, our criminals will be back with bigger plans.

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Losing Wars We Already Won (Part I): Torture vs. WWII

Shahid Buttar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Torture Investigation, Nuremberg Trials, Human Rights, Cold War, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Torture, Wwii, Criminal Justice System, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, John Durham, Veterans, Politics News
Shahid Buttar

Despite public pressure from voices across the political spectrum, the Obama administration continues to sweep torture under the rug.

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Holding Holder's Feet to the Fire

Nan Aron | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bush Administration Torture, Eric Holder Attorney General, Guantanamo Torture, CIA Torture, Bush Torture, Obama Torture, Eric Holder, Torture Memos, Bush Torture Memos, Torture, Politics News
Nan Aron

Attorney General Eric Holder is a man on a seat that is hot and getting ever hotter. But we still don't know if the lawyers who wrote the torture memos will be brought to justice.

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