Enemy Combatants

Release Hamdan

Justin Florence | Posted 09.15.2008 | Politics


Justin Florence

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.

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 07.29.2008 | Politics


Andy Worthington

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.

Bush Loses Another Enemy Combatant Court Case

AP | LARRY O'DELL | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics


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

Mystery Official At Guantanamo Bay Altering Wikipedia Entries

NY Times' The Lede | Patrick Lyons | Posted 03.28.2008 | 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...

Detainees Recount Guantanamo Bay Horror Stories

Associated Press | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 03.28.2008 | Home


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