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Judge Gladys Kessler Releases Yemeni Detainee, Slams "Mosaic" Of Guantanamo Intelligence And Unreliable Witnesses

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.14.2009 | World

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I am surprised that senior Obama officials seem to have been content to let a Bush-era approach to prosecution survive unchanged.

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Obama's First 100 Days: A Start On Guantanamo, But Not Enough

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.04.2009 | World

Read More: Preventive Detention, Geneva Conventions, Pentagon Guantanamo, War on Terror, Algeria, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Binyam Mohamed, Omar Khadr, Eric Holder, Habeas Corpus, Obama Executive Orders, Dick Cheney, Politics, Libya, UN Convention Against Torture, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Col. Patrick Parrish, Obama Guantanamo, Saudi Arabia, US Senate, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, Col. James Pohl, Judge Reggie B. Walton, Closing Guantanamo, Pentagon, US Supreme Court, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Neal Katyal, Guantanamo Detainees, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Ayman Batarfi, Justice Department, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lawrence Wilkerson, Judge Richard Leon, Uzbekistan, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Obama First 100 Days, China, 100 Days, World News

Just Binyam Mohamed and the Yemeni doctor, Ayman Batarfi have been cleared for release. At this rate, of course, it will take decades to close Guantánamo.

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Torturing The Guilty vs. Abusing the Innocent

Steven Waldman | Posted 05.25.2009 | World

Read More: Detention, Guantanamo Detainees, Habeas Corpus, Torture, World News

If there's going to be an investigation, it should be as much about figuring out how someone's innocence became "inconsequential."

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Will Obama Prosecute the Captured Somali 'Pirate' in a US Court?

Jeremy Scahill | Posted 05.14.2009 | World

What would a "pirate" defense actually look like? Remember, some Somalis -- and other international observers -- do not exactly see the "pirates" as being 100% unjustified in their actions.

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Justice Extends To Bagram, Guantanamo's Dark Mirror

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.07.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Amin Al-Bakri, Haji Wazir, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo, Redha Al-Najar, Obama Administration, Justice Department, US District Court, International Justice Network, Boumediene v. Bush, Barack Obama, Judge John D. Bates, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Fadi Al-Maqaleh, Bagram, Enemy Combatants, Bagram Detainees, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Afghanistan, Cuba, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, World News

Whereas Gitmo prisoners had, over the years, secured habeas corpus rights, none of these privileges had been extended to the prisoners in Bagram.

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Bad News, Good News For The Guantanamo Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.22.2009 | World

Read More: US Supreme Court, Judge Judith Rogers, US Appeals Court, Adel Hakimjan, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, US District Court, Boumediene v. Bush, Adel Abdul Hakim, Barack Obama, Enemy Combatant, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Politics, UN Convention Against Torture, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Judge A. Raymond Randolph, Albania, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Judge Karen LeCraft Henderson, Huzaifa Parhat, Sweden, China, US Asylum, Guantanamo Files, World News

First, the good news. Adel Abdul Hakim, one of five Uighurs (Muslims from China's oppressed Xinjiang province), who was released from Guantánamo in M...

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Shirt of Change

Michael DeJong | Posted 03.04.2009 | Style

Read More: George Bush, Lawrence of Arabia, Moral Compass, Attention Must Be Paid, Oval Office, Gitmo, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, Kate Hepburn, Barack Obama, Inherited Crises, Willie Loman, Wire Tapping, Habeas Corpus, Marlene Dietrich, Stem Cell Research, Fighting Terrorism, Shirtsleeves, Rosie the Riveter, Women’s Choice, Roll Up Your Sleeves, The Buck Stops Here, Green Economies, American Families, Hillary Clinton, Darth Vader, Fiscal Recovery, Scarlet O’Hara, Health Care, Global Warming, Torture, Fashion, Chaplin, Style News

Obama's brilliant photo of him in a crisp white shirt sans jacket will come to symbolize a new presidential power.

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How Cooking For The Taliban Gets You Life In Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 03.01.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Al-Qaeda, Congress, Ghaleb Al-Bihani, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Guantanamo, Taliban, Habeas Corpus, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Bosnia, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Mohammed El-Gharani, Hisham Sliti, Closing Guantanamo, Belkacem Bensayah, Yemen, Tunisia, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Salim Hamdan, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Uighurs, Guantanamo Uighurs, Judge Richard Leon, Obama First 100 Days, Muaz Al-Alawi, Huzaifa Parhat, World News

Those of us who prefer justice to arbitrary and unaccountable detention without charge or trial were delighted when, last week, Barack Obama fulfilled...

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Judge Orders Release of Guantanamo's Forgotten Child

Andy Worthington | Posted 02.15.2009 | World

Just two weeks ago, in a habeas corpus case in a Washington D.C. court, Judge Richard Leon turned the clock back to January 11, 2002 (the day Guantán...

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Where Has the Time Gone?

Byron Williams | Posted 02.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Katrina Response, Attorney, Bush, Courts, Hurricane Katrina, Social Security, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, Bush Legacy, President Bush, Dismantle Social Security, Habeas Corpus, Fdr, Commander in Chief, Politics News

Bush, You had more impact on the country than any other president in my lifetime. One may have to go back to FDR to find a commander in chief that had more influence on the republic.

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Freed Bosnian Calls Guantanamo "The Worst Place In The World"

Andy Worthington | Posted 01.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Supreme Court Guantanamo Detainees, Congress, Military Commissions Act, Mohammed Nechla, Uighurs, Detainee Treatment Act, Barack Obama, Hadj Boudella, Habeas Corpus, Judge Richard Leon, Mustafa Ait Idr, Bosnia, Sabir Lahmar, Lakhdar Boumediene, Prisoners Released From Guantanamo, Politics News

It remains an appalling indictment of the Bush administration's detention policies that it took nearly seven years for the case of three Bosnian Algerian Guantanamo inmates to be reviewed.

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Dick Cheney, Interior Decorator

Jeff Schweitzer | Posted 01.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Warrantless Wiretapping, Vice President, Attorneys General, Wiretapping, Habeas Corpus, Doj, Torture, Bush, Cheney, Politics News

It was, perhaps, a dark and rainy day. Through a clearing in the forest the King's horsemen came upon the menacing silhouette of a distant medieval f...

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How Guantanamo Can Be Closed: More Advice for Barack Obama

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: Syria, Mohamed Jawad, US Supreme Court, Yemen, Tunisia, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Uzbekistan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Uighurs, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Uighurs, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Albania, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Libya, Huzaifa Parhat, President Bush, The Guantanamo Files, Iraq, China, Closing Guantanamo, Politics News

Several prominent human rights and legal organizations launched a campaign in Berlin on November 10, aimed at persuading European countries to accept cleared prisoners from Guant�namo.

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What a Relief -- America Survives

Cenk Uygur | Posted 12.05.2008 | Politics

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We docked the ship on shore. We're back to normal now. We have re-established the fundamental building blocks of Western civilization -- we have our foundation underneath us.

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Just What This Heartsick American Needed: A Republican Beacon for Civil Liberties

David Quigg | Posted 11.21.2008 | Politics

Read More: George Bush, The Dark Side, Warrantless Wiretapping, Civil Liberties, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Ronald Rotunda, Guantanamo, 9/11 Commission Chairman Thomas Kean, War on Terror, Habeas Corpus, Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, Jane Mayer, Kyndra Rotunda, Detainee Abuse, Enhanced Interrogations, Constitution, Torture, Politics News

A Republican almost made me burst into tears. In a good way. Gov. Kean's specifics are a reminder of how much is at stake now and of how bad things have been since 9/11.

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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Game. Set. Match. Obama.

Shannyn Moore | Posted 11.16.2008 | Politics

Read More: Litmus Test, Supreme Court, John McCain, John Paul Roberts, Presidential Debates, Barack Obama, Exxon Valdez, Habeas Corpus, Us Constitution, Roe v. Wade, Katie Couric, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Samuel Alito, Military Commissions Act of 2006, Waterboarding, Torture, Politics News

McCain's outright mockery of the health and life of the mother as being a legitimate reason for termination was deplorable. How dare he!?

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From Guantanamo to the United States? Meet the Uighurs

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.09.2008 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Uighurs, Parhat v. Gates, Terrorism, Judge Ricardo Urbina, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, China, Uighurs, Albania, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

On Tuesday, in an extraordinary and unprecedented ruling in a US District Court, Judge Ricardo Urbina ruled that 17 wrongly imprisoned Chinese Muslims...

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Guantanamo: Government Says Six Years Is Not Long Enough To Prepare Evidence

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, US Supreme Court, UN Convention Against Torture, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Huzaifa Parhat, US District Court, Judge Thomas Hogan, Boumediene v. Bush, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

Imagine after six and a half years of this imprisonment -- in which, unlike convicted criminals on the US mainland, you have never been charged or tried, and have not been allowed a single visit from your loved ones.

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Who is Barack Obama? Atticus Finch.

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 10.17.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: John McCain Lies, John McCain, To Kill a Mockingbird, Mccain Lies, 2008 Presidential Campaign, Atticus Finch, U.S. Constitution, Barack Obama, Sarah Palin, Rule of Law, Habeas Corpus, Entertainment News

So who does Barack remind me of? He's a civil rights lawyer who taught Constitutional law and is bringing up two girls the right way. When bullies gather, he stands up for what's right, he stands up for the rule of law, he stands up.

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Obama Condemns "Shameless" McCain Campaign (Live from MI)

Ari Melber | Posted 10.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Obama Michigan, Obama Habeas Corpus, Bill O'Reilly, Barack Obama, Mccain Lie, Mccain/Palin Lie, Habeas Corpus, Politics News

Obama was clearly on a tear Monday night. He blasted McCain for outlining economic "polices that are identical to George Bush's" and ridiculed Palin for claiming she is a change agent.

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Joe Biden's the Man on Guantanamo, Iraq and the "War on Terror"

Andy Worthington | Posted 09.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Iraq War, Guantanamo, Joe Biden, War on Terror, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Reassuringly, for those who care about the Bush administration's assault on fundamental human rights, Biden has been unstinting in his opposition to the prison at Guantanamo Bay.

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