Guantanamo Bay

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Hamdan Case a Joke

Lionel Beehner | Posted 08.07.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, International Law, Laws of War, Military Commissions Act, Afghanistan, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Hamdan v. Rumsfeld, Hamdan, Salim Hamdan, Home News

Let's be honest: this case was a joke in the annals of justice and a blotch on America's campaign to prevent future 9/11's.

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Washington Post: Leaked Documents Say US Taped Guantanamo Interrogations

Washington Post | Josh White | Posted 08.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Guantanamo Bay Interrogation Tapes, Guantanamo Bay Tapes, Home News

The Bush administration informed all foreign intelligence and law enforcement teams visiting their citizens held at Guantanamo Bay that video and soun...

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Child Soldier Has No Place at Gitmo

Craig and Marc Kielburger | Posted 07.25.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Marc Kielburger, Omar Khadr, Craig Kielburger, Terrorism, Home News

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 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Osama Bin Laden, Terrorism, Guantanamo, Osama Bin Laden Driver Trial, Home News

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...

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Judge For Bin Laden's Driver Nixes Evidence Collected Under "Highly Coercive" Conditions

AP | MIKE MELIA | Posted 07.22.2008 | Home

Read More: Osama Bin Laden, Osama Bin Laden's Driver, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Torture, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Habeas Corpus, Home News

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...

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Douglas Feith On Torture: "Some People Do Bad Things"

Washington Independent | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Interrogation Gitmo, Gitmo Interrogations, Guantanamo Interrogations, Guantanamo Detainees, Douglas Feith, Guantanamo Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Doug Feith, Gitmo Torture, Interrogation Techniques, Home News

At a hearing about interrogation techniques in Guantanamo, the former Under Secretary of Defense explains away abuse: After going back and forth wit...

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Gitmo Interrogation Video Released For First Time

AP | CHARMAINE NORONHA | Posted 07.15.2008 | Home

Read More: Omar Khadr, Gitmo, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo Interrogations, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay Prison, Guantanamo Interrogations, Canadian Detainee Gitmo, Interrogation Tapes, Interrogation Video, Gitmo Video, Guantanamo Bay Video, Home News

TORONTO — A 16-year-old captured in Afghanistan and held at Guantanamo Bay sobs during his questioning, holding up his wounded arms and begging ...

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Judge To Bush Lawyers In Gitmo Appeals: Speed It Up

McClatchy Newspapers | Marisa Taylor | Posted 07.08.2008 | Home

Read More: Warwire, Guantanamo Bay, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Appeals, Home News

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...

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Bush Administration Developing Plan To Empty Guantanamo Bay

Washington Post | Dan Eggen, Josh White | Posted 07.04.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Bush Decides on Guantanamo, Terrorism, Bush and Guantanamo, Closing Guantanamo, Home News

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...

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Steelworkers "Begin Again" by Backing Democrat Barack Obama for a Better America

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

Read More: Democratic Nominee, Guantanamo Bay, Employee Free Choice Act, Republican Opponent, United Steelworkers, President Bush, Long Walk Home, Barack Obama, Colombia Free Trade Agreement, Bruce Springsteen, Home News

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.

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ABC: Bush To Decide Soon Whether Or Not To Close Gitmo

ABC News | Posted 07.03.2008 | Home

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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...

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Habeas Begins: Gitmo Prisoner Opens New Era Of Court Challenges

McClatchy | Posted 06.20.2008 | Home

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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...

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Vlad Rudy Has Returned from the Fear Mongering Netherworld

Bob Cesca | Posted 06.18.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Giuliani, Rudy Giuliani, Republican Party, John McCain, Habeas Corpus, Home News

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.

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Justice Isn't Justice If It Only Applies to Your Friends

David Bromwich | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Scalia Torture, Supreme Court, Scalia Guantanamo, Antonin Scalia, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Trials, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Home News

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.

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Supreme Court Defends Detainees' Right to Habeas Corpus; Huge Step for Anti-Torture Movement

Tom Hayden | Posted 06.14.2008 | Home

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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.

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Anti-Bush Guantánamo Decision: U.S. Constitution Still On Life Support, Not Dead Yet!

Jackson Williams | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Sandra O'Connor, Constitution, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Kennedy, Guantanamo Bay, Swing Vote, Guantanamo, Home News

The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that terror suspects held indefinitely by the U.S. government at Guantánamo Bay have constitutional rights in our co...

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Yay, It's a Holiday

Amy Ephron | Posted 06.13.2008 | Home

Read More: Supreme Court, Presidents' Day, Justice, Gitmo Detainees, Guantanamo Bay, Habeas Corpus, Home News

We should all declare June 12, to be Habeas Corpus Day. And I hope that we celebrate it forever.

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Bin Laden Driver's Lawyer Wants Charges Dismissed After Supreme Court's Guantanamo Ruling

AP | Posted 06.12.2008 | Home

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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 ...

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Pentagon Told Guantanamo Interrogators To Trash Evidence

AP | MICHAEL MELIA | Posted 06.09.2008 | Home

Read More: War on Terror, Terrorism Interogations, Pentagon and Guantanamo Bay Evidence, Guantanamo Bay Evidence, Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo Bay Interogations, Warwire, Home News

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — The Pentagon urged interrogators at Guantanamo Bay to destroy handwritten notes in case they were called to testify abou...

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9/11 Mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed On Trial At Guantanamo Bay

AP | ANDREW O. SELSKY | Posted 06.05.2008 | Home

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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...

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Gates: US "Stuck" In Guantanamo

CNN | Posted 05.20.2008 | Home

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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...

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The Tortured Law on Torture

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.14.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Robert Scheer, Alberto Mora, Qahtani, Bush, Yoo, Gitmo, Torture, Bush Administration Torture, Home News

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.

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Five Years of His Life, And What You Can Do About It

Rachel Haimowitz | Posted 05.09.2008 | Home

Read More: Book Review, Center for Constitutional Rights, Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Taking Action, Five Years of My Life, Aclu, Gitmo, Murat Kurnaz, Amnesty International, Home News

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.

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After Guantánamo

Kenneth Roth | Posted 05.05.2008 | Home

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Guantanamo, Criminal Justice, Torture, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Detainees, Home News

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?

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Debate Questions I'd (Still) Like To Ask

Chris Weigant | Posted 04.16.2008 | Home

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Unfortunately these questions remain largely unanswered, almost two months after the last debate.

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