The legal reasoning for denying this "last-minute plea deal" was based solely on the fact that preparations for the trial had been made? Sorry, but the show must go on?
AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging ...
ABC News | Posted 07.03.2008 | 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...
Spencer Ackerman | Posted 06.26.2008 | Home
Originally appeared at The Washington Independent. In its latest effort to push the Bush administration into closing the Guantanamo Bay detention fa...
McClatchy | Posted 06.26.2008 | 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...
AP | PETE YOST | Posted 06.23.2008 | 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...
The Huffington Post | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
John McCain heightened his rhetoric about the Boumediene v. Bush decision, which grants the Guantanamo detainees to question their confinement in civi...
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.28.2008 | Politics
Are we Americans truly savages or merely tone-deaf in matters of morality, and therefore more guilty of terminal indifference than venality?
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
Now comes news that charges have been dropped against the so-called 20th hijacker because the "evidence" he supplied under torture and later recanted is not credible enough to go to trial.
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
So great was my sense of outrage at what happened to this innocent man who was detained for 5 years at Guantanamo, that I immediately sought ways to help those still trapped there.
Russ Wellen | Posted 05.06.2008 | Politics
Lynndie England of Abu Ghraib fame was a blip on torture's radar screen, and women would like to keep it that way. But what infuses men with the urge to torture?
Jamal Dajani | Posted 05.02.2008 | Politics
Imprisoned for six years without being charged or given a trial, "emaciated" Al Jazeera cameraman Sami Al Hajj was finally released from the US Navy prison camp at Guantanamo.
Washington Post | Joby Warrick | Posted 04.22.2008 | 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 ...
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 02.16.2008 | Politics
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Interrogators got intelligence from detainees that helped U.S. troops in Afghanistan attack Taliban fighters l...
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 02.12.2008 | Politics
The reputation of the U.S. has been tarnished throughout the world since the Bush administration replaced our military justice systems with a regime of military commissions.
David Feige | Posted 01.01.2008 | Home
If there is one truism about America it is this: we are obsessed with crime and punishment. Every lurid tragedy produces calls for tougher laws and ...
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.
Rebekah Diller and Jonathan Hafetz | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment
Habeas corpus is just one of the great American traditions that Bruce Springsteen thinks are in danger.
Andy Worthington | Posted 10.24.2007 | Politics
Sixteen months after the first deaths, it is surely time for the investigators of the Naval Criminal Investigative Service to deliver their verdict.
Stacy Parker Aab | Posted 10.15.2007 | Politics
In our political dialogue, we tend to act like evil comes only in the form of overseas dictators. Evil is always them, not us.
H. Candace Gorman | Posted 10.08.2007 | Politics
No matter how you cut it, having a trial with secret evidence isn't fair -- not to mention being charged with "crimes" that weren't even against the law until years after you were picked up.
Harry Shearer | Posted 10.02.2007 | Media
When the reporting on Burma seems against all odds to truthfully reflect the awful situation there, it's hard for us to be roused even to a simulation of moderate interest.
ABC News' "The Blotter" | Stephen Grey and Brian Ross | Posted 09.24.2007 | Home
The discovery that two Guantanamo detainees were wearing unauthorized underwear --- Under Armour briefs and a Speedo bathing suit --- has apparently t...
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HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 07.21.2008 | Politics