WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration said Tuesday it may continue to imprison non-U.S. citizens indefinitely even if they have been acquitted of ter...
The Washington Independant | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics
Defense Department General Counsel Jeh Johnson moved the Obama administration into new territory from a civil liberties perspective. Asked by Sen. Mel...
ProPublica | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics
by Dafna Linzer, ProPublica President Obama appeared to rule out issuing an executive order to establish indefinite detention Thursday, nearly a week...
Ginny Sloan | Posted 07.02.2009 | Politics
Of the many Guantanamo tragedies, perhaps none has been greater than our handling of the Uighurs, a group of Chinese Muslim detainees.
CNN | Posted 07.01.2009 | Politics
The Justice Department has once again delayed the release of the CIA's internal investigation of its controversial interrogation and detention program...
The Washington Post | Posted 06.24.2009 | Politics
The U.N.'s top human rights advocate, Navanethem Pillay, on Wednesday appealed to the Obama administration to release Guantanamo Bay inmates or try th...
Amnesty International | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics
By Tom Parker, Policy Director, (Counter) Terrorism and Human Rights Four Uighur former Guantanamo inmates are now in Bermuda, other detainees have b...
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
Senator Lindsey Graham said on Wednesday, that the White House had assured him that the president was still committed to preventing the release of pho...
CQ Politics | Posted 06.16.2009 | Politics
The U.S. government's case for embargoing the release of photographs said to depict abuse of detainees rests largely on a questionable claim that disc...
The Guardian | Ian Traynor | Posted 06.15.2009 | World
European governments and the Obama administration today outlined aims for a new joint regime for combating terrorism. The proposals are based on comm...
ZP Heller | Posted 05.29.2009 | Politics
More and more, former interrogators and counterinsurgency experts are using Dick Cheney's recent ubiquity to expose his iniquity regarding the torture and abuse of detainees.
Geoffrey R. Stone | Posted 05.23.2009 | Politics
What should we do with "detainees at Guantanamo who cannot be prosecuted yet who pose a clear danger to the American people"? This question cuts to the very heart of the concept of preventive detention.
Andy Borowitz | Posted 05.22.2009 | Comedy
The deal drew praise from Senate Democrats, who had earlier blocked the closing of the detention camp, and from CBS executives, who had been desperately searching for something to spice up their fall schedule.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 05.20.2009 | World
WASHINGTON — A federal judge says the United States can continue to hold some prisoners at Guantanamo Bay indefinitely without any charges. U.S...
Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics
It is a bitter pill to swallow that those most responsible for the terrible abuses of the past decade are those who are most likely to benefit from an investigation into the truth.
ProPublica | Posted 05.08.2009 | World
A stockpile of documents about hundreds of Guantanamo Bay detainees, some written by the prisoners themselves, could be destroyed under a Bush-era federal court order.
The Media Consortium | Posted 04.30.2009 | Politics
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger It's no shock that those long-opposed to All Things Immigrant are using the Swine Flu outbreak—which has mostly ...
Sandy Goodman | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics
The most likely outcome of this whole business will be that nobody will be punished.
Marlene H. Phillips | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
Dick Cheney wants a few reports released. The former Vice President, a man so secretive that while serving as Vice President he had his home remove...
Martha St Jean | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics
The Bush torture memos have provided more questions than answers. Where were the "reasonable observers" who should have given dissenting viewpoints based on legal and moral ramifications?
HuffingtonPost.com | Ryan Grim | Posted 04.23.2009 | Politics
The Bush administration did not inform Congress that it had waterboarded detainees in classified briefings, after the agency had already done so, Hous...
Murray Waas | Posted 04.22.2009 | Politics
If Rumsfeld had any other thoughts at that historic moment in 2002, thus far, that single one is the only known to have been recorded for posterity.
Charles Shaw | Posted 04.21.2009 | Politics
The policy of mass arresting and detaining protesters was deliberate and premeditated. The intention was to disrupt, discourage, and, ultimately, disperse the protest presence from the streets by creating a climate of fear.
Sheri Fink | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics
Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the memos is their intimation that medical professionals conducted a form of research on the detainees, clearly without their consent.
The Media Consortium | Posted 04.16.2009 | Politics
by Nezua, TMC MediaWire Blogger The dialogue on immigration has, historically, been contentious and cyclical. There are times when hysteria peaks, an...
Long before $150,000-gate, Sarah Palin seemed to...
The Obamas dropped by the Vatican on Friday, with daughters...
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Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 07.07.2009 | Politics