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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Holder: Indefinite Detention Will Include Measures Of Due Process

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 06.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Gitmo, Holder Indefinite Detention, Enemy Combatants, Holder Detention, Holder Gitmo, Eric Holder, Politics News

Eric Holder asserted on Wednesday that terrorism suspects indefinitely detained by the United States would be granted opportunities for due process, b...

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Coming This Summer: Gitmo by the Dozen!

Spencer Green | Posted 05.20.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Combatants, Gitmo Detainees, Summer Movies, Gitmo, Torture, Guantanamo Detainees, Comedy News

(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.)

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.19.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo Evidence, Foreign Affairs, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Administrative Review Boards, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama Administration, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, David Addington, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Faisalabad, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Cuba, World News

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.

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.04.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Geneva Conventions, Pentagon Guantanamo, War on Terror, Algeria, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Binyam Mohamed, Omar Khadr, Eric Holder, Habeas Corpus, Obama Executive Orders, Dick Cheney, Politics, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Col. Patrick Parrish, Obama Guantanamo, Saudi Arabia, US Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Col. James Pohl, Judge Reggie B. Walton, Closing Guantanamo, Pentagon, US Supreme Court, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lawrence Wilkerson, Judge Richard Leon, Uzbekistan, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Obama First 100 Days, China, 100 Days, World News

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.

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Gitmo Lawyers: The Last Growth Industry?

William Fisher | Posted 04.13.2009 | World

Read More: Bunyam Mohamed, Pentagon, Clive Stafford Smith, Obama Gitmo, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Bay, President Barack Obama, American Bar Association, War Prisoners, Kafka, World News

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.

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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

Andy Worthington | Posted 04.06.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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What's in a Name? In this Case, Not Much

Elizabeth Goitein | Posted 04.03.2009 | Politics

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Enemy Forces, Gitmo Detainees, Politics News

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.

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Justice Department Ends "Enemy Combatant" Definition For Gitmo Detainees

AP | NEDRA PICKLER | Posted 03.13.2009 | Politics

Read More: Doj, Obama Justice Department, Terrorism, Bush Justice Department, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Justice Department, Torture Enemy Combatants, Barack Obama, Eric Holder, Enemy Combatants, Enemy Combatant Trials, Guantanamo Bay, US Enemy Combatant, Enemy Combatants Justice Department, Politics News

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...

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Al-Marri Case Dismissed By Supreme Court

People For the American Way Blog | Posted 03.06.2009 | World

Read More: Ali Al-Marri Supreme Court, Enemy Combatants, Ali Al-Marri, Al Qaeda, Enemy Combatants Supreme Court, Marri, Al-Marri, World News

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...

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Ali al-Marri, Alleged Al-Qaida Agent, Indicted In Illinois Federal Court

AP | MARK SHERMAN and DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.27.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Obama Detainees, Enemy Combatants, Ali Al-Marri, Enemy Combatant Trials, Terrorism, President Obama, Detainee Trials, Obama Terrorism, Peoria-Illinois, Chicago News

WASHINGTON — Suspected al-Qaida sleeper agent Ali Al-Marri is now facing criminal charges, but the Obama administration is refusing to rule out ...

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Government To Try Alleged Al-Qaida Agent In Illinois Court: AP

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.26.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Ali Al-Marri, Enemy Combatant Trials, Terrorism, Ali Al-Marri Trial, Al Qaeda Suspect Trial, Al Qaeda, Chicago News

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 ...

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Ali Saleh Kahlah al Marri: US Prepares Charges Against Final 'Enemy Combatant' In US

AP | DEVLIN BARRETT | Posted 02.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Administration, Enemy Combatants, Al Marri Charges, Ali Saleh Kahlah Al-Marri, War on Terror, Qatar, Politics News

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 ...

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.29.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

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...

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

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.

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Why Guantanamo Must Be Closed: Advice for Barack Obama

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.

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Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Enemy Combatants, Terrorism, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, Illegal Detainment, Detainees, Politics News

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.

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Court Confirms President's Dictatorial Powers in Case of US "Enemy Combatant" Ali al-Marri

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Us Constitution, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Judge Diana Gribbon Motz, Ali Al-Marri, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Taliban, Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, Judge William B. Traxler, Yaser Hamdi, Al Qaeda, Politics News

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.

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Bush Loses Another Enemy Combatant Court Case

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics

Read More: Warwire, Enemy Combatants, George Bush, Federal Court, Bush Loses Court Case, Ali Al-Marri, Politics News

RICHMOND, Va. — The Bush administration has the authority to capture and detain suspected enemy combatants in this country but must give them an...

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Targeted Killing Is Working, So Why Is The Press Not Reporting It?

Alan Dershowitz | Posted 01.03.2008 | Media

Read More: Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Intifada, Enemy Combatants, Palestinian Civilian Deaths, Civilian Casualties, Idf, Salah Shehadeh, Hamas, Israel, Eliezer Shkedi, Israelis Palestinians, Israel Politics, Media News

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.

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Mystery Official At Guantanamo Bay Altering Wikipedia Entries

NY Times' The Lede | Patrick Lyons | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

Read More: Wikipedia, Enemy Combatants, Guantanamo Wikipedia, George W. Bush, Guantanamo Detainees, George Orwell 1984, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Records, George Orwell, Politics News

Winston Smith, the protagonist in George Orwell's "1984," worked at a government job he hated, rewriting history to conform to current propaganda impe...

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Guantánamo and the Supreme Court: The Most Important Habeas Corpus Case in Modern History

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Seth P. Waxman, Justice Kennedy, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, General Paul D. Clement, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Al Odah v. United States, Military Commissions Act, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Stephen Abraham, John Paul Stevens, Enemy Combatants, Lakmar Boumediene, Joanna Mariner, Human Rights Watch, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Rasul v. Bush, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Politics News

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.

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Guantanamo Detainees' Fate at Stake in Boumediene

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 12.04.2007 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Johnson v. Eisentrager, Enemy Combatants, Uniform Code of Military Justice, Lakmar Boumediene, Maryland Appeals Court, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Samuel Alito, INS v. St. Cyr, Military Commissions Act, Rasul v. Bush, John Roberts, Boumediene v. Bush, Detainee Treatment Act, Suspension Clause, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

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.

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Guantánamo Whistleblower Launches New Attack on Rigged Tribunals

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.20.2007 | Politics

Read More: Rigged Tribunals, Tribunals, GuantáNamo, Enemy Combatants, War on Terror, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Gitmo, Politics News

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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