Guantanamo Bay

81 Protestors Arrested At Supreme Court

Associated Press | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

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Eighty-one people were arrested at the Supreme Court Friday in a protest calling for the shutdown of the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba....

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Guantánamo, Six Years Later

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 01.11.2008 | Politics

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The facts reinforce the notion that preventative detention doesn't make us safer. How, then, are we still left with hundreds of detainees at Guantánamo six years into this mess?

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Huckabee: We Treat Inmates At Guantanamo Bay 'Too Nice'

Think Progress | Posted 12.21.2007 | Politics

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During a campaign stop in Iowa today, former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee commented on the conditions at the military detention center in Guantanam...

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Bush Administration Going To Court Over CIA Tapes

AP | MATT APUZZO | Posted 12.18.2007 | Politics

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A federal judge has ordered a hearing on whether the Bush administration violated a court order by destroying CIA interrogation videos of two al-Qaida...

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Mukasey Won't Give Congress CIA Tape Details

Washington Post | Dan Eggen | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

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Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey today sharply rebuffed congressional demands for details about the Justice Department's inquiry into the destructi...

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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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CIA Official Who Ordered Tapes Destroyed Lawyers Up

TPMmuckraker | Spencer Ackerman | Posted 12.14.2007 | Politics

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Blink and you'll miss it in today's New York Times piece on the House's torture ban. But Jose Rodriguez, the CIA's ex-operations director who ordered ...

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Gitmo Attorney: Mess to Last "For Years to Come"

Jon Wiener | Posted 12.06.2007 | Home

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Erwin Chemerinsky, lawyer for Gitmo detainee Salem Gherebi, said in an interview yesterday justice for those being held at Guantanamo still years off, even if the Supreme Court rules in their favor.

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Beyond Guantanamo

Tram Nguyen | Posted 12.05.2007 | Politics

The civil liberties debate isn't only about the right to privacy and dissent and other good things citizens enjoy, but the integrity of the Constitution and the human rights of all persons under its jurisdiction.

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Livin' In The Future

Rebekah Diller and Jonathan Hafetz | Posted 11.15.2007 | Entertainment

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Habeas corpus is just one of the great American traditions that Bruce Springsteen thinks are in danger.

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Innocents and Foot Soldiers: The Stories of the 14 Saudis Just Released From Guantánamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.12.2007 | Politics

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The stories of the Guantánamo detainees do nothing to bolster the administration's claims that those detained in the "War on Terror" were so dangerous that it was worth breaking domestic and international law and introducing torture as official US policy.

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Just Another Day in a Guantanamo Courtroom

Jennifer Daskal | Posted 11.09.2007 | Politics

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The government is more interested in securing a conviction than anything else. The question of whether or not Khadr can lawfully be tried or is actually guilty seems secondary.

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Guantánamo: The Stories of Three Innocent Jordanians and an Afghan, Just Released

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.06.2007 | Politics

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Despite the rumors that the US administration is hoping to close Guantánamo, it is still holding men without charge or trial who should never have been imprisoned in the first place.

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Guantánamo: Original Whistleblower Condemns Proposals to Hold New Tribunals as Hypocritical and Cowardly

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.16.2007 | Politics

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Planning new tribunals would not only reveal the original process as a sham; it would also prolong an already intolerable situation.

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The Long Suffering of the Mauritanian Teenager Sent Home from Guantánamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.30.2007 | Politics

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This case should stand as a cautionary example of why it is unwise, unjust and immoral to deprive habeas corpus rights to prisoners held in US custody.

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Gitmo Underwear Scandal: Who Smuggled The Speedos?

ABC News | Posted 09.24.2007 | Politics

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The discovery that two Guantanamo detainees were wearing unauthorized underwear -- Under Armour briefs and a Speedo bathing suit -- has apparently tri...

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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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