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The Rule of Law in the US Hangs on Obama’s Response to the Ghailani Trial
To listen to certain Republican critics of last week’s verdict in the federal court trial of the Tanzanian Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a former Guantánamo prisoner and a former CIA “ghost prisoner,” you...
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Guantánamo: A Dismal Week for America
Just when it seemed that President Obama’s paralysis regarding Guantánamo couldn’t get any worse — with any further trials or prisoner releases apparently on permanent hold because any other course of...
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Obama’s Collapse: The Return of the Military Commissions
For T. S. Eliot, April was the cruelest month, but for the prisoners at Guantánamo it is January — from the dashed hopes of January 2009, when President Obama swept into office issuing an executive...
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Guantánamo and the Military Commissions: Revolution Interview with Andy...
Last Friday, Ken Ota of the newspaper Revolution asked me to do a phone interview to discuss the recent announcement that President Obama was planning a new series of trials by Military Commission at...
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After Recent Ruling in the Case of Bin Laden’s Cook, Guantánamo Should Close...
On February 10, it was reported that Ibrahim al-Qosi, a 50-year old Sudanese prisoner in Guantánamo who accepted a plea deal in his trial by Military Commission last July, had the 14-year sentence that...
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Carol Rosenberg on the “Prison within a Prison” at Guantánamo for Four...
Since Guantánamo opened on January 11, 2002, Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald has made it her beat. I may have built up a comprehenive knowledge of who is in Guantánamo by studying all the available...
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“A Story About Lost and Broken Things”: Mohammed Jawad, A Child in...
Every now and then, someone in the mainstream media cuts through the general — and shameful — indifference about Guantánamo, publishing a powerful story that should change hearts and minds. This is the...
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US Military Attorney Compares Rationale for “War on Terror” to Nazi Ideology
Last month, when I visited the US to campaign for the closure of the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, I was so busy flying from city to city and from event to event that I did not have time to...
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Conservative Judges Demolish the False Legitimacy of Guantánamo’s Terror Trials
When is a war crime not a war crime? When it is invented by the executive branch and Congress, and implemented for six years until a profoundly Conservative appeals court strikes it down. The invented...
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On Terrorism, America Has Lost Its Way
Last week at Guantánamo, a farcical dance played out, as it does every six months or so. Representatives of the US mainstream media — and other reporters from around the world — flew to the US naval...
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US Military Admits Only 2.5 Percent of All Prisoners Ever Held at Guantánamo...
So it’s official, then. Eleven and a half years after the “war on terror” prison opened at Guantánamo, the maximum number of prisoners that the US military intends to prosecute, or has already...
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Former Guantánamo Prisoner David Hicks Appeals His 2007 Conviction for...
Ever since the conservative court of appeals in Washington D.C. delivered an extraordinary ruling last October, vacating one of the only convictions in the military commission trial system introduced...
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Video: Todd Pierce Discusses the Lawlessness of Guantánamo’s Military...
I’ve been meaning for some time to post a video of my friend Todd Pierce, a retired major in the US Army JAG (Judge Advocate General) Corps, being interviewed on the “London Real” show run by US ex-pat...
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Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, David Hicks and the Legal Collapse of the Military...
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Former Guantánamo Military Defense Attorney Todd Pierce Interviewed by the...
I’m delighted to be cross-posting below an interview conducted by my good friend The Talking Dog (functioning below the radar under a pseudonym in New York City) with another good friend, Army Maj....
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Despite His Conviction Being Quashed Three Times, Guantánamo Prisoner Ali...
For some prisoners held in the “war on terror” prison at Guantánamo Bay, it seems there really is no way out. One example would seem to be Ali Hamza al-Bahlul, a 45-year old Yemeni prisoner and a...
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In Contentious Split Decision, Appeals Court Upholds Guantánamo Prisoner Ali...
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Guantánamo Lawyer Michel Paradis: Military Commissions are Based on Legal...
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Two Guantánamo Cases Make It to the Supreme Court; Experts Urge Justices to...
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Abandoning Guantánamo: The Supreme Court’s Shame as a Military Commission...
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