Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems
A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.
A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.
HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics
Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the United States would be granted opportunities for due process, b...
Spencer Green | Posted 05.20.2009 | Comedy
(INT. CONFERENCE ROOM - BENJAMIN SONNEE (Matthew McConaughey) is in the middle of a PowerPoint presentation, which ends with the image of a giant "Monopoly Man" crushing poor people; everyone in the room applauds, Benjamin takes off his shirt.)
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.19.2009 | World
It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.
Andy Worthington | Posted 05.04.2009 | World
Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.
William Fisher | Posted 04.13.2009 | World
The Pentagon is offering $39,407-$130,211 a year for lawyers who will help respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.
Andy Worthington | Posted 04.06.2009 | World
Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.
Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics
The real story here is not that the words have changed; it's that much of the substance -- the disturbingly overbroad view of who may be detained under the laws of war -- remains the same.
AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — The Obama administration said Friday that it is abandoning one of President George W. Bush's key phrases in the war on terrorism: e...
People For the American Way Blog | Posted 03.06.2009 | World
Today, the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal by Ali al-Marri, who has been in federal custody in South Carolina since January 2002 when Bush designat...
AP | MARK SHERMAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out ...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.26.2009 | Chicago
WASHINGTON — An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in ...
AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.26.2009 | Politics
WASHINGTON — An accused al-Qaida sleeper agent held for 5-1/2 years at a Navy brig in South Carolina will soon be sent to Illinois for trial in ...
Andy Worthington | Posted 01.29.2009 | World
Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...
Andy Worthington | Posted 01.15.2009 | World
Just two weeks ago, in a habeas corpus case in a Washington D.C. court, Judge Richard Leon turned the clock back to January 11, 2002 (the day Guantán...
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.17.2008 | Politics
In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.
Justin Florence | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics
Mr. Hamdan's sentence, in the Administration's view, will be not that selected by the military, but whatever the president wants. This position is unjust and unwise.
Andy Worthington | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics
Not content with endorsing the president's dictatorial right to imprison "enemy combatants", the judges ruled that the President did not even have to allege that an "enemy combatant" had ever raised arms against US forces.
AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
RICHMOND, Va. — The Bush administration has the authority to capture and detain suspected enemy combatants in this country but must give them an...
Alan Dershowitz | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media
Israel's ratio of combatants to civilians killedis better than that of the U.S. and any other country combating terrorism, yet this has hardly been reported by the international press.
NY Times' The Lede | Patrick Lyons | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics
Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell's "1984," worked at a government job he hated, rewriting history to conform to current propaganda impe...
Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.
Marjorie Cohn | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics
Surely the Court will not decide on Dec. 5 that Bush has succeeded in placing the detainees beyond the reach of our federal courts by sending them to Guantánamo.
Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics
The administration's response to this failure to extract information from the detainees was to instigate a grotesque system of punishments and rewards, where torture became a substitute for the gathering of intel.
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Andy Worthington | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics