Enemy Combatants

Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 08.15.2008 | Politics

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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Detainees Recount Guantanamo Bay Horror Stories

Associated Press | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 09.11.2007 | Home

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Detainees flinging body waste at guards. Guards interrupting detainees at prayer. Interrogators withholding medicine. Hostility and tension between in...

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