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Guantanamo Trials

9/11 Trials Create Nasty Legal Spat Among Defense Lawyers

Newsweek | Michael Isikoff | Posted 11.25.2009 | Politics

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A nasty spat has broken out among defense lawyers over an issue that is likely to be front and center in the upcoming 9/11 trial in New York: who actu...

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Guantanamo Prisoners To Be Tried in U.S., Congressional Agreement Allows

nytimes.com | DAVID JOHNSTON | Posted 10.08.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON -- Congressional leaders have decided to allow detainees imprisoned at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to be brought to the United States to face civ...

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Closing GITMO: Is This the Department of Justice's Detention Model?

William Fisher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Politics

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William Fisher

The government is already imprisoning, in the U.S., American citizens awaiting trial on terror-related charges, under what their supporters describe as draconian conditions.

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Obama Admin May Permit 9/11 Suspects To Plead Guilty In Capital Cases

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 07.06.2009 | Politics

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WASHINGTON — Guantanamo detainees facing the death penalty could plead guilty without a full trial under a plan the Obama administration is cons...

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Gitmo Prosecutor Quits Over "Ethical Qualms"

Washington Post | Posted 10.26.2008 | Politics

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John McCain, Legal Historian

Shayana Kadidal | Posted 06.21.2008 | Politics

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Shayana Kadidal

As McCain claims, judges are indeed "unaccountable" to voters. That is precisely why they are well-situated to serve to hold the executive branch accountable for its abuses and incompetence.

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Letter from Gitmo -- Camp "Injustice"

Anthony D. Romero and Hina Shamsi | Posted 06.14.2008 | Politics

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Anthony D. Romero and Hina Shamsi

The hearings in Guantánamo were not in any way conducted like an American court of law, with the words torture so abundantly used and with lawyers denied the ability to assist their clients.

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9/11 Victims Deserve Better than Guantanamo

Stacy Sullivan | Posted 06.13.2008 | Politics

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Stacy Sullivan

No matter how hard Bush tries to sell these arraignments as a great day for justice, it can't spin the Guantanamo courtroom spectacle into a fair judicial process worthy of the victims of September 11, 2001.

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Lawyer: Gitmo Trials Pegged To '08 Campaign

McClatchy | Carol Rosenberg | Posted 04.05.2008 | Politics

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The Navy lawyer for Osama bin Laden's driver has accused senior Pentagon officials of orchestrating war crimes prosecutions of detainees held at Guant...

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