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Will Obama Block Release of Key Bush-era Torture Memos?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, White House, Bradbury Memos, George W. Bush, President Obama, Obama State Secrets, State Secrets, John Brennan, CIA Torture, Steven Bradbury, Eric Holder, Office of Legal Counsel, Obama White House, Jay Bybee, Bagram, Eric Holder Attorney General, Glenn Greenwald, Financial Crisis, ACLU Torture, Leon Panetta, C.I.A., Leon Panetta CIA, Extraordinary Rendition, Politics News
Jeremy Scahill

As has been pointed out by journalists, human rights lawyers and critics, President Obama has continued -- and continues to defend -- some of the Bush administration's most repressive "War on Terror" policies.

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Jason Linkins

Obama's Bagram Detainees Decision 'Eerily Familiar'

HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Bagram Air Base, Bagram, Obama Bush, Obama Foreign Policy, 100 Days, Obama Bagram, Politics News

The Washington Independent's Daphne Eviatar does a great service today, explaining, with a good deal of precision, how President Barack Obama's recent...

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Will Obama Prosecute the Captured Somali 'Pirate' in a US Court?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

Read More: Geneva Conventions, St. Augustine, Richard Phillips, President Obama, Somali Pirates, Guantanamo, Wall Street Journal, Habeas Corpus, Bagram, Maersk Alabama, Kenya, Captain Richard Phillips, Vice Admiral Bill Gortney, Uss Bainbridge, Francis Boyle, Scott Horton, Somalia, Uss-Bainbridge-Somali-Pirates, Cal Thomas, Newt Gingrich, Captured Pirate, Pirates, Pirate Trial, World News
Jeremy Scahill

What would a "pirate" defense actually look like? Remember, some Somalis -- and other international observers -- do not exactly see the "pirates" as being 100% unjustified in their actions.

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Defending Bush, Obama Administration Appeals Court Decision Allowing Detainees To Challenge Imprisonment

Think Progress | Posted 05.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Bagram, Obama Appeal Detainee Rights, Barack Obama, Detainee Rights, Afghanistan, President Obama, War Wire, Obama Administration, Politics News

Recently, Judge John Bates ruled that some prisoners at the Air Force base in Bagram have a right to challenge their imprisonment in U.S. civilian cou...

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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News
Andy Worthington

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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Bagram Prisoners Can Challenge Detention In US Courts

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.03.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — A federal judge ruled Thursday that some prisoners in the war on terror can use U.S. civilian courts to challenge their detention a...

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Will Afghanistan Become President Obama's War?

Eric Margolis | Posted 03.28.2009 | World

Read More: Hamid Karzai, Gaza, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Mullah Omar, George W. Bush, Guantanamo, 9/11, Obama, Taliban, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Mujahideen, Al Qaeda, Foreign Policy, Afghanistan War, Communism, Bagram, Al Qaida, Pervez Musharraf, Israel, Muslim, Iraq, Mikhail Gorbachev, Soviet Union, World News
Eric Margolis

In a stunning historic irony, while U.S. troops and CIA teams were turning over ever rock in Afghanistan looking for Osama bin Laden, the gravest national security threat was on Wall Street.

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Obama's Refusal To Reverse Bush Policy In Afghanistan Angers Human Rights Groups

The Independent | By Stephen Foley | Posted 03.25.2009 | World

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Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying ...

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Obama Backs Bush On Bagram Detainees

AP | NEDRA PICKLER and MATT APUZZO | Posted 03.23.2009 | Politics

Read More: Bush Policies, Bagram, Human Rights, Bagram Detainees, Barack Obama, Obama Bagram, Bagram Prison, Obama Bush Detainees, Politics News

WASHINGTON — The Obama administration, siding with the Bush White House, contended Friday that detainees in Afghanistan have no constitutional r...

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Strange Bedfellows at Guantánamo

Jamil Dakwar | Posted 03.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, War on Terror, Terrorism, Army Field Manual, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Obama Gitmo, Criminal Justice, Black Sites, War on Terrorism, Gitmo, Barack Obama, Bagram, Cia, Criminal Justice System, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Gitmo Detainees, Torture, Politics News
Jamil Dakwar

I've been observing the military commissions since 2004, and Guantánamo never felt more surreal or otherworldly than it did in what we hope were its ...

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Pentagon Keeps Mum on Who's At Bagram

ProPublica | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

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ProPublica

An untold portion of the 600 detainees at Bagram Airfield in Afghanistan were captured outside the country while engaged in peaceful activities and imprisoned alongside Afghan warriors.

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Afghan Prison At Bagram Poses Problem For Obama

Nytimes.com | ERIC SCHMITT | Posted 02.27.2009 | World

Read More: Bagram, Obama Guantanamo, Obama Bagram, Bagram Afghanistan, Guantanamo Detainees, Afghan Prison, Guantanamo, Bagram Detention Center, Bagram Habeas Corpus, Afghanistan, Taliban, International Justice Network, Afghanistan Detention, World News

WASHINGTON -- For months, a national debate has raged over the fate of the 245 detainees at the United States military prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba...

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Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.22.2009 | World

Read More: CIA Secret Prisons, Col. Stephen Henley, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics, Khalid El-Masri, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Bush Administration Torture, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Bagram, Mohammed El-Gharani, Laid Saidi, Maher Arar, Marwan Jabour, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, President Bush, Syria, Fbi, Extraordinary Rendition, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, World News
Andy Worthington

In one of his first acts as president, Obama ordered prosecutors in Guantanamo's Military Commission trials to ask for a four-month stay on all proceedings.

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Torture: A modest proposal

Mark Kleiman | Posted 02.12.2009 | Politics

Read More: Stress Positions, Terrorism, John Yoo, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Hypothermia, David Addington, Commander-in Chief, Dick Cheney, Inherent Powers, John Ashcroft, Bagram, Waterboarding, Alberto Gonzales, Torture, Politics News
Mark Kleiman

While the Bush administration has no doubt made errors in the course of its valiant attempts to protect us all, in one respect it has displayed admirable creativity, from which the Obama administration could benefit.

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Death in Kabul

Virginia M. Moncrieff | Posted 01.05.2009 | World

Read More: Corruption, Afghanistan Police, Bagram, World, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan, Bagram Afghanistan, Kabul, Afghanistan Police Force, Afghanistan Corruption, Taliban, Afghanistan Law, Afghanistan Lawlessness, International, World News
Virginia M. Moncrieff

Abid was the victim of the cheating lawlessness in Afghanistan. Whoever killed him will never be questioned, charged or jailed for the crime.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.18.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, Kandahar, Abdul Hamid Al-Ghizzawi, War on Terror, Terrorism, Unitary Executive Theory, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Donald Rumsfeld, David Addington, Barack Obama, Dick Cheney, Guantanamo Uighurs, Abdul Razzaq Hekmati, Enemy Combatants, Bagram, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, New York Times, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News
Andy Worthington

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

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A Message to Barack Obama: Don't Forget Cheney and Addington

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.30.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John McCain, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Bagram, David Addington, Military Commissions Act, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Abu Ghraib, Dick Cheney, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.

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Two Afghans Released from Guantanamo: a Farmer and a Teenager

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Abdul Wahab, Bagram, Mahbub Rahman, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Taliban, Afghanistan, The Guantanamo Files, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The stories of the two Afghans released with Madni -- though involving slightly less brutality -- do nothing to justify the United States' detention policies in the "War on Terror."

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Reading The Pictures: Making The Scene At Bagram

Michael Shaw | Posted 07.27.2008 | Media

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Michael Shaw

Seeing Obama in front of American troops at Bagram is not only a great relief (and, hopefully, a preview), it offers a profound contrast with what we've been suffering from.

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