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The government was afraid of releasing the Yemenis (even though they had been cleared for release) because Guantánamo itself might have radicalized [them], exposing [them] to militants and embittering [them] against the United States,” and I should a
Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., is trying to prevent the Obama administration from holding criminal trials in civilian courts for the alleged Sept. 11 plotters instead of bringing them before military commissions.
Democrats pushed ahead Wednesday with a $42.8 billion homeland security budget that keeps alive the goal of closing Guantanamo someday while preserving President Barack Obama’s discretion — in the interim — to bring detainees into the United States f
A year ago, an Air Force prosecutor swore out charges of conspiracy and providing material support to a terrorist organization against Fouad al Rabia, a 50-year-old Kuwaiti aviation engineer who was seized in Afghanistan 8 years ago.
The detention system created after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks imprisoned innocent men, subjected them to abuse, stripped them of their legal rights and allowed Islamic militants to turn the prison camp into a school for jihad.
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Bahtiyar Mahnut, a detainee at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, learned a few weeks ago that the Pacific island nation of Palau had invited him to settle there. He wishes to remain a prisoner so he can look after his older brother, a fello
For the CIA supervisors and operatives responsible for torture, the chickens are coming home to roost; that is, if President Barack Obama and Attorney General Eric Holder mean it when they say no one is above the law – and if they don’t fall victim t
The Obama administration is seeking another two-month delay in a handful of key military commission trials of terrorism detainees, as two key senators said they no longer believe Guantanamo Bay inmates will be transferred to Kansas.
Some of the detainees have already been held at Bagram for as long as six years. And unlike the prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay naval base in Cuba, these detainees have had no access to lawyers, no right to hear the allegations against them and only
CIA operatives used severe sleep deprivation
tactics against a terror detainee in late 2007, keeping him awake for
six straight days with permission from government lawyers. [M.D.'s helping?]
Mohammad Jawad, one of the youngest detainees to be held at the U.S.
detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, said after his
return home to Afghanistan he had been abused and humiliated during 6 years in custody. A teenager when he was held, he was accused of
war crimes for throwing a grenade that wounded two U.S. soldiers in
2002, but was ordered freed in July by a U.S. judge who threw out his
confession because it had been obtained through abuse.
Under even the most dire conditions, there is a gold standard when it
comes to applying the rule of law. It was set 65 years ago by a former
attorney general of the United States. At issue today is whether the
current attorney general will uphold that standard.
A young Guantanamo detainee appears likely to be sent home after a federal judge concluded he'd been held illegally and ordered him released after almost seven years.
"After this horrible, long, tortured history, I hope the government will succeed in getting him back home," U.S. District Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle told Justice Department lawyers during a court hearing. "Enough has been imposed on this young man to date."
In the 13 months since the Supreme Court issued its landmark decision
granting detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,
the right to challenge their confinements before federal judges, most
prisoners still have not had their day in court.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Wednesday "deplored" the alleged abuse of political prisoners in Iran following the election and urged their immediate release.
The federal judge reacted furiously after government lawyers conceded much of their evidence to justify teenager Jawad’s detention consisted of statements he had made that were obtained by torture.
Given that the pro-torture crowd has
long argued that confessions that U.S. “interrogation techniques” have
produced are voluntary and valid, I wonder if the pro-torture crowd
would say the same about Bergdahl’s statement.
6 months after President Barack Obama ordered the closing of the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, his administration is still slogging through the cases and policies and will need more time to complete interim reports due on Tuesday.
Top Obama administration officials said late Monday that they're still on track to close the prison in January.
Chasers visit lecture by John Yoo at Berkeley. John runs for his hole.
The American Civil Liberties Union yesterday accused the Obama
administration of using statements elicited through torture to justify
the confinement of a detainee it represents at the U.S. military prison
in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
“A forensic examiner found that he (the prisoner) had essentially been crucified; he died from asphyxiation after having been hung by his arms, in a hood, and suffering broken ribs,”...
People like Rizzo and Fredman should not be working for our government a single day longer. They should be impeached. They should be prosecuted. They should be given fair trials and imprisoned if convicted...
Holder said officials were discussing how to handle such suspects and whether new legislation would be required to hold them. He said even without a trial, a judge would have to review the basis for holding such detainees.
"The thought we had was that there would be some kind of review with regard to the initial determination and then a periodic review," Holder said.
North Korea's top court has convicted two U.S. journalists, and sentenced them to 12 years in labor prison, the country's state news agency reported Monday. The Central Court tried American TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee and confirmed their unspecified "grave crime" against the nation, and of illegally crossing into North Korea, the Korean Central News Agency said.
He lasts 6 seconds and says "I didn't want to say this, but it's most definitely torture."
In the clip below, she explains how President Obama, principled opponent of prosecuting or even investigating past crimes, plans to lock people up for future crimes. Forever. (h/t Antiwar.com blog)
An internationally renowned Spanish judge is attempting to prosecute six former Bush officials for their role in allowing torture at the US prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Despite being urged by the Spanish Attorney General to drop the case, Jud
The CIA has released a devastating document detailing the dates and explicit details of secret Congressional briefings in which members of Congress were told of the Bush administration’s torture techniques and when they had been used.
