Detainees

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Thomson Prison Will Likely Be Next Stop For Gitmo Detainees, Says Obama Administration

Washington Post | Peter Slevin and Peter Finn | Posted 12.06.2009 | Chicago

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CHICAGO -- Despite opposition from congressional Republicans, the Obama administration is signaling that a state prison in rural Thomson, Ill., will p...

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Phil Carter Resigns: Key Pentagon Appointee Worked On Gitmo Detainee Issues

Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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Phillip Carter, the top detainee affairs policy appointee at the Pentagon, has quit his post after just seven months on the job, a Defense Department ...

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The New Bagram: Has Anything Changed?

Jonathan Horowitz | Posted 11.20.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Bagram, Bagram Detainees, Afghanistan, Obama Bagram, Bagram Afghanistan, Bagram Theater Internment Facility, Detainee Abuse, Bagram Air Base, Detainees, World News

Having toured it, I give the new Bagram detention facility a "vastly improved" grade compared to what it was before. But, that being said, U.S. detention policy still has a long way to go.

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Conservatives Terrified of Bringing Terrorists to Justice

Adam Blickstein | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

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As the Obama administration develops a comprehensive strategy to bring terrorists to justice, conservatives continue to politicize and fearmonger this critical national security issue.

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Detainees Moved to DMV; Could Be Held There 'Indefinitely'

Andy Borowitz | Posted 11.17.2009 | Comedy

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While Eric Holder did not indicate how long the detainees might be held at the DMV, he did say that the DMV "is capable of detaining them indefinitely."

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Beyond Guantanamo

Ginny Sloan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics

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The Declaration represents the largest collection of policy experts yet to lend their voices to a responsible plan to process the cases of suspected terrorist detainees held at the Guantanamo detention facility.

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Men Wrongly Detained After 9/11 Get $1.26M From Government

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York

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NEW YORK — Five immigrant men who were detained in roundups in New York and eventually deported following the Sept. 11 attacks have reached a $1...

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The 'Bright Line Rule': New Papers Detail FBI, CIA Wrangle Over Torture

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT and PAMELA HESS | Posted 10.31.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Newly released documents show the FBI interviewed a naked, chained terror suspect back in 2002 as the bureau struggled with the CIA ove...

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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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Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Congress is set to allow the Pentagon to keep new pictures of foreign detainees abused by their U.S. captors from the public, a mov...

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Terry Holdbrooks: Guantanamo Bay Prison Guard Converted To Islam; Detainee Was Mentor

The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World

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Terry Holdbrooks arrived at Guant�namo detention camp in the summer of 2003 as a godless 19-year-old with a love of drinking, hard rock music and ta...

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Hardin Jail Deal Delayed Over Controversy With Mysterious Company

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home

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HARDIN, Mont. — Plans for a California company to take over this city's empty jail were put on hold Monday, following last week's revelations th...

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American Police Force And Hardin: Mysterious Security Firm Gets Control Of Empty Montana Jail

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 11.30.2009 | Home

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A shadowy private security company that has no known clients but claims to have helped foreign governments combat terrorism and will protect anything ...

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Uighur Brothers: Detainee Declines Offer To Leave Guantanamo Out Of Loyalty To Ailing Brother (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Posted 11.27.2009 | World

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After eight years of detention, at least one Guantanamo Bay detainee declined an offer to resettle to the Pacific Island of Palau, according to The Wa...

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This Week In Magazines: Obama The "Self-Entangling Giant"

James Warren | Posted 11.27.2009 | Media

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No matter how much he might disdain the W. presidency, especially when it came to misuse of executive branch power, Barack Obama may be a "self-entangling giant" who is going down the same perilous path.

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3 Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Transferred To Ireland, Yemen

AP | Posted 11.26.2009 | World

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WASHINGTON — With the closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison by a January deadline in doubt, the Justice Department Saturday announced the transfe...

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Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 11.09.2009 | World

It's a crime against reality for us to carry on pretending that countries like Kazakhstan can hold fair trials.

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Mohammed Khan Tumani Identifieb By U.S. As Guantanamo Detainee Released To Portugal

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A Guantanamo inmate who said the prison's harsh conditions drove him to attempt suicide has been sent to Portugal, the U...

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"We're Going to Kill Your Children": The CIA Inspector General's Report

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics

A.G. Holder's appointment of John Durham to investigate this sordid episode should be only the first step in a wholesale reevaluation of American national security priorities in the post-9-11 world.

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CIA Conducted Mock Executions, Reveals New Report

Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics

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A long-suppressed report by the Central Intelligence Agency's inspector general to be released next week reveals that CIA interrogators staged mock ex...

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My 4 Days At Gitmo (SLIDESHOW)

Tomek Gross | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

When asked about rates of depression, mental problems, and suicide among the detainee population, the chief psychiatrist reminds us that we all suffer from anxieties and stresses.

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Despite Leeway, Government Faring Poorly In Gitmo Suits

ProPublica | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics

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As the Obama administration and Congress try to forge a legal framework for detaining suspected terrorists, they might want to take a close look at wh...

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U.S. May Not Release Acquitted Detainees

Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it may continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of ter...

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Defense Department Lawyer: Post-Acquittal Detentions Possible

The Washington Independant | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Department of Defense, Afghanistan, Civil Rights, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, Obama, Hamdi-v-Rumsfeld, Gitmo, Detainees, Mel Martinez, Jeh Johnson, Iraq, Constitution, Robert Gates, Politics News

Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel...

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