Child Soldier Has No Place at Gitmo
Their stories are all too shocking, yet all too familiar. In Sierra Leone, boys as young as 10 were turned into bloodthirsty soldiers through an i...
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Bin Laden's Driver Walks Out Of His Terror Trial At Guantanamo
McClatchy Newspapers | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 07.23.2008 | Politics
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Osama bin Laden's driver walked out of his terror trial Wednesday rather than watch prosecutors show a video of his first U.S. interrogation, in Afgha...
Judge For Bin Laden's Driver Nixes Evidence Collected Under "Highly Coercive" Conditions
AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — A former driver for Osama bin Laden knew the target of the fourth hijacked plane on Sept. 11, a prosecutor sai...
Douglas Feith On Torture: "Some People Do Bad Things"
Washington Independent | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
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At a hearing about interrogation techniques in Guantanamo, the former Under Secretary of Defense explains away abuse: After going back and forth wit...
Gitmo Interrogation Video Released For First Time
AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 07.15.2008 | Politics
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TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging ...
Judge To Bush Lawyers In Gitmo Appeals: Speed It Up
McClatchy Newspapers | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.08.2008 | Politics
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A federal judge handling the appeals of more than 200 Guantanamo detainees vowed Tuesday to hold lawyers' "feet to the fire" to insure that the cases...
Bush Administration Developing Plan To Empty Guantanamo Bay
Washington Post | Dan Eggen, Josh White | Posted 07.04.2008 | Politics
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The Bush administration is developing a long-range plan to empty the Guantanamo Bay military prison that could include asking Congress to spell out pr...
Steelworkers "Begin Again" by Backing Democrat Barack Obama for a Better America
Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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When Obama speaks to a crowd, the audience feels his enthusiasm for working together to create a better America. They know he believes he was born in a beautiful place and is seeking help to make that place greater.
ABC: Bush To Decide Soon Whether Or Not To Close Gitmo
ABC News | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics
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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...
Habeas Begins: Gitmo Prisoner Opens New Era Of Court Challenges
McClatchy | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics
The Taliban tortured Abdul Rahim Abdul Razak al Ginco. They thought he was a U.S. spy. Then, U.S. soldiers called the Syrian native an enemy and shipp...
Vlad Rudy Has Returned from the Fear Mongering Netherworld
Bob Cesca | Posted 06.18.2008 | Politics
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With a blinding white light, a loud bang and a puff of wig powder, Vlad Rudy Giuliani has emerged from the netherworld of GOP politics shamelessly trying to frighten Americans into voting for a Republican presidential candidate again.
Justice Isn't Justice If It Only Applies to Your Friends
David Bromwich | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
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The Supreme Court's recent decision on Guantanamo opened the grounds for a debate in which the American opponents of liberty will speak of the "lack of realism" of the U.S. Constitution.
Supreme Court Defends Detainees' Right to Habeas Corpus; Huge Step for Anti-Torture Movement
Tom Hayden | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics
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Where the Congress, including the Democratic leadership, had failed to flatly reject the White House's arguments, a Supreme Court that installed Bush in the White House turned against him.
Anti-Bush Guantánamo Decision: U.S. Constitution Still On Life Support, Not Dead Yet!
Jackson Williams | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home
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The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that terror suspects held indefinitely by the U.S. government at Guantánamo Bay have constitutional rights in our co...
Yay, It's a Holiday
Amy Ephron | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics
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We should all declare June 12, to be Habeas Corpus Day. And I hope that we celebrate it forever.
Bin Laden Driver's Lawyer Wants Charges Dismissed After Supreme Court's Guantanamo Ruling
AP | Posted 06.12.2008 | Politics
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — A lawyer for Osama bin Laden's former driver said Thursday he would try to stop the first scheduled war-crimes trial at ...
Pentagon Told Guantanamo Interrogators To Trash Evidence
AP | MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 06.09.2008 | Politics
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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify abou...
9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed On Trial At Guantanamo Bay
AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 06.05.2008 | Politics
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GUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba — Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, the reputed mastermind of the Sept. 11 attacks, told a military judge at his arraignme...
Gates: US "Stuck" In Guantanamo
CNN | Posted 05.20.2008 | Politics
Efforts to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are at "a standstill," Defense Secretary Robert Gates told a Senate subcommittee T...
The Tortured Law on Torture
Robert Scheer | Posted 05.14.2008 | Politics
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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.
Five Years of His Life, And What You Can Do About It
Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Media
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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.
After Guantánamo
Kenneth Roth | Posted 05.05.2008 | Politics
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Everyone wants to close Guantánamo, but what comes next? How should we deal with the hard core criminals who have allegedly committed or plotted terrorist acts?
Debate Questions I'd (Still) Like To Ask
Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Politics
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Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.
Standing Up For Justice In The Military Commissions Proceedings
Anthony D. Romero | Posted 04.04.2008 | Politics
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We've been at a critical juncture since September 11. How we respond to the atrocities thrust upon us after that terrible day says everything about who we are as Americans - what values we defend, how the world sees us, and how history will remember us.
Reclaiming America
Bob Franken | Posted 04.02.2008 | Media
I have some questions for all three presidential candidates about the evidence that this government used the war on terror as an excuse to sanction clear torture.
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