Detainees

Beyond Guantanamo

Ginny Sloan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Politics


Ginny Sloan

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.

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

AP | DEEPTI HAJELA | Posted 11.03.2009 | New York


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...

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

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


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

Admiral: I Can Empty Guantánamo Camps In 10 Days

The Miami Herald | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics


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...

Congress To Keep Detainee Abuse Photos Hidden

AP | MARK SHERMAN | Posted 10.10.2009 | Politics


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...

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

The Guardian | Sarfraz Manzoor | Posted 10.06.2009 | World


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...

Hardin Jail Deal Delayed Over Controversy With Mysterious Company

AP | MATTHEW BROWN | Posted 10.06.2009 | Home


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...

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

TPMMuckraker | Justin Elliott | Posted 09.30.2009 | Home


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

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

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.28.2009 | World


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...

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

James Warren | Posted 09.28.2009 | Media


James Warren

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.

3 Guantanamo Bay Prisoners Transferred To Ireland, Yemen

AP | Posted 09.27.2009 | World


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

Political Trials and Crimes Against Reality

Robert Amsterdam | Posted 09.09.2009 | World


Robert Amsterdam

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

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

AP | Posted 10.16.2009 | World


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...

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

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 09.25.2009 | Politics


Joseph A. Palermo

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.

CIA Conducted Mock Executions, Reveals New Report

Newsweek | Posted 09.21.2009 | Politics


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

My 4 Days At Gitmo (SLIDESHOW)

Tomek Gross | Posted 08.31.2009 | World


Tomek Gross

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.

Despite Leeway, Government Faring Poorly In Gitmo Suits

ProPublica | Posted 08.23.2009 | Politics


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...

U.S. May Not Release Acquitted Detainees

Wall Street Journal | JESS BRAVIN | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


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

Defense Department Lawyer: Post-Acquittal Detentions Possible

The Washington Independant | Posted 08.07.2009 | Politics


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

A Gitmo Tragedy: The Uighurs

Ginny Sloan | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics


Ginny Sloan

Of the many Guantanamo tragedies, perhaps none has been greater than our handling of the Uighurs, a group of Chinese Muslim detainees.

CIA Report Release Delayed Again

CNN | Posted 08.01.2009 | Politics


The Justice Department has once again delayed the release of the CIA's internal investigation of its controversial interrogation and detention program...

UN Human Rights Chief Criticizes Obama Administration Over Detainee Treatment

The Washington Post | Posted 07.25.2009 | 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...

Sam Stein

Graham: Rahm Doesn't Want Detainee Photos Released

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 07.18.2009 | 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...

No Proof Detainee Photos Led to Military Deaths

CQ Politics | Posted 07.16.2009 | 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...

Obama, Europe's New Counter-Terrorism Plans Would Make Another Guantanamo 'Impossible'

The Guardian | Ian Traynor | Posted 07.16.2009 | World


European governments and the Obama administration today outlined aims for a new joint regime for combating terrorism. The proposals are based on comm...