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9/11 Trials Create Nasty Legal Spat Among Defense Lawyers

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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A nasty spat has broken out among defense lawyers over an issue that is likely to be front and center in the upcoming 9/11 trial in New York: who actu...

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Philip Carter, Key Official In Guantanamo Closure, Resigns

The Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

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A key official in the Obama administration's effort to remake detention policy and close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay has resigned. Philip C...

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Empty Prison in Struggling Illinois Town Might Be Next Gitmo

Charles Shaw | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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Charles Shaw

Beyond histrionics about a wave of jihad descending upon Chicago, the truth of the matter is far closer to the desire of Republicans to keep the extralegal limbo at Guantanamo going full steam.

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Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The military can comply with a White House order to empty the detention center and clear all 221 war-on-terror capti...

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Guantanamo Uighurs' Rights To Be Considered By Supreme Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to decide whether Guantanamo detainees who are considered no threat can be ordered released in the...

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Lawyer Blasts "Congressional Depravity" on Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.

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75 Guantanamo Prisoners Cleared for Release; 31 Could Leave Today

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.05.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

If the rationale for not releasing the Yemenis from Guantánamo was extended to the U.S. prison system, no prisoner would ever be released at the end of their sentence, because prison "might have radicalized" them.

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Guantanamo Envoy: U.S. Should Have Taken Cleared Prisoners; Some Should Never Have Been Held

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

To my mind, President Obama missed a golden opportunity to bring 17 Uighur prisoners to the U.S. in his early days in office.

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Obama Still On Track To Close Gitmo By January

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 11.10.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — The Pentagon's top lawyer on Thursday said the Obama administration remains committed to closing the Guantanamo Bay prison by early...

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No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.10.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed to confirm that the courts were uniquely placed to deliver justice to the prisoners.

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Who Are the Two Syrians Released From Guantanamo to Portugal?

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.19.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Their stories, as revealed in publicly available documents from Guantánamo, reveal that neither man had any connection whatsoever to international terrorism.

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Guantanamo Detainees Protested Over Strip Searches, Humiliation

Miami Herald | Posted 08.15.2009 | World

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For two weeks in June, two dozen war-on-terror captives staged a sit-in at an exercise yard in a maximum-security prison camp -- refusing to budge fro...

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Guantánamo Closing Faces Major Hurdles, Causing Headaches For The White House

New York Times | DAVID JOHNSTON and ELISABETH BUMILLER | Posted 08.13.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- With six months left before a White House deadline, the Obama administration is struggling with legal, political and logistical problems...

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Never Forget: The International Day in Support of Victims of Torture

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.27.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Sadly, our celebrity-obsessed world is unlikely to pay much attention to the International Day in Support of the Victims of Torture, as the death of Michael Jackson dominates headlines.

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Empty Evidence: The Stories of the Saudis Released From Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.18.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

Khalid Saad Mohammed seized from a hospital in Pakistan and sold to the U.S. military. But the authorities in GITMO had never managed to build up a credible case against him.

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Lieberman: Obama Should Consider Keeping Guantanamo Open

The Plum Line | Posted 07.13.2009 | Politics

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Joe Lieberman's Senate office confirms to me that he said in an interview to air later today that President Obama should consider keeping Guantanamo B...

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Who Are the Four Guantanamo Uighurs Sent to Bermuda?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.12.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

The Uighurs should never have been held at all; the Pentagon was only interested in them because of the intelligence they might have provided about the activities of the Chinese government.

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From Guantanamo to the South Pacific: Is This a Joke?

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.10.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Could there be an answer to the Obama administration's Uighur problem?

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Death at Guantanamo Hovers Over Obama's Middle East Visit

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.05.2009 | Politics

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Andy Worthington

A death at Guantánamo is always felt keenly in the Muslim world, and is also uncomfortable for the Obama administration, which claims that it is running a "humane" facility.

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Free The Guantanamo Uighurs!

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.02.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Obama needs to find the courage to resist the shrill opportunism of some of his least principled colleagues, and to order the Uighurs' release into the United States.

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Forgotten: The Second Anniversary of a Guantanamo Suicide

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.30.2009 | World

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Andy Worthington

Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can't vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo -- apparently by suicide -- of Abdul Rahman al-Amri.

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Can We Have Security Without Fear?

Deepak Chopra | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

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Deepak Chopra

In his ongoing efforts to treat the American public as they have rarely been treated -- that is, as adults -- Obama pointed out several rational things.

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Land of the Safe and Home of the Cruel

David Bromwich | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics

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David Bromwich

Obama's National Archives speech was one more by Barack Obama that deferred action. It suggested the comprehension of an enormous wrong which it decided only partly to remedy.

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Three Uneasy Questions About Torture

Kenneth C. Davis | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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Kenneth C. Davis

What happened? Why did it happen? What can be done to prevent it from happening again and again?

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To Detain or Not o Detain

Stephen Herrington | Posted 06.22.2009 | Politics

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Stephen Herrington

How do you treat a terrorist/soldier in a new order of conflict?

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