Detainees

Guantanamo Prisoners Reportedly Not Told Of Rights

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.31.2008 | Politics


GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — U.S. military prosecutors on Wednesday played an interrogation video that shows a driver for Osama bin Laden d...

ABC: Bush To Decide Soon Whether Or Not To Close Gitmo

ABC News | Posted 07.11.2008 | Politics


President Bush will soon decide whether to close Guantanamo Bay as a prison for al-Qaeda suspects, sources tell ABC News. High-level discussions among...

Judges Criticize Government's Evidence To Hold Guantanamo Detainees

New York Times | William Glaberson | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics


In the first case to review the government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a federal appeals court found that accus...

Kansas GOPers Beg McCain: Don't Move Gitmo Here

McClatchy | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics


An idea to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp for war-on-terror detainees and transfer the prisoners to the military prison here -- championed for m...

Gitmo Ruling Rejected By Appeals Court

AP | PETE YOST | Posted 07.01.2008 | Politics


WASHINGTON — A Chinese Muslim at Guantanamo Bay got a small measure of vindication Monday when a federal appeals court announced it had thrown o...

"Standard Operating Procedures"

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 06.19.2008 | Politics


Jayne Lyn Stahl

While some may say this emperor (Bush) has no clothes, he's still managed to hide his derriere better, and operate with impunity more effectively, than any in recent memory.

Guantanamo Detainees Allege Being Injected With Drugs To Coerce Confessions

Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics


Adel al-Nusairi remembers his first six months at Guantanamo Bay as this: hours and hours of questions, but first, a needle. "I'd fall asleep" after ...

Abu Ghraib Photographer: Excerpts From Her Interviews

New Yorker | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


This week in the magazine, Philip Gourevitch and Errol Morris write about Sabrina Harman, a U.S. Army specialist who took photographs at Abu Ghraib an...

Canadian Military Has Quit Turning Detainees Over To Afghans

NY Times | IAN AUSTEN | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


The Canadian military secretly stopped transferring prisoners to Afghanistan's government in November after Canadian monitors found evidence that they...

81 Protestors Arrested At Supreme Court

Associated Press | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


Eighty-one people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

Dozens Of "Ghost Prisoners" From CIA Jails Unaccounted For

Washington Post | Craig Whitlock | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics


On Sept. 6, 2006, President Bush announced that the CIA's overseas secret prisons had been temporarily emptied and 14 al-Qaeda leaders taken to Guanta...

AG Nominee Said Of Terror Detainee With Bruises: "He Looks Fine To Me"

The New York Times | PHILIP SHENON | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


The 21-year-old Jordanian immigrant was in shackles when he was brought into the courtroom of Judge Michael B. Mukasey in Federal District Court in Ma...