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1-20-10 Dark Revelations in the Bagram Prisoner List
By Andy Worthington From AndyWorthington.co.uk | Original Article On Friday, the ACLU secured a significant victory in its campaign to secure information about the prisoners held in the US prison at Bagram…
1-18-10 The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
By Scott Horton From Harper’s Magazine | Original Article 1. “Asymmetrical Warfare” When President Barack Obama took office last year, he promised to “restore the standards of due process and the core…
1-15-10 The Pain of Listening: Using Music as a Weapon at Guantanamo
By Tobias Rapp From Spiegel Online International | Original Article For years, US interrogators at Guantanamo used painfully loud music on prisoners at Camp Delta. Rock musicians like Tom Morello of Rage…
1-13-10 Ex-Gitmo Guard Meets With Ex-Detainees
by Bryant Jordan From Military.com | Original Article A former GI at Guantanamo Bay has made his separate peace with two of the men he once guarded, apologizing to the former detainees…
1-4-10 Afghan ‘Dirty War’ Escalates
By Douglas Valentine From Consortium News | Original Article On Dec. 31, I listened in dismay as an NPR “terrorism” expert condemned the suicide bombing that killed seven CIA employees in Afghanistan…
1-3-10 Obama’s Guantánamo “Progress” in 2009
by Michael Haas, Allenwood Associates Media Consultants On January 22, 2009, his first full day in office, President Barack Obama signed four executive orders relating to Guantánamo and related interrogation policies…
12-29-09 Power of Attorney
By Deborah Solomon From The New York Times | Original Article Jason Madara for The New York Times Your new book, “Crisis and Command,” is an eloquent, fact-laden history of audacious power…
12-27-09 The Green Zone
By Kim Scipes From ZNet.com | Original Article The Green Zone: The Environmental Costs of the Military By Barry Sanders (AK Press, 2009) As a US military veteran—USMC, 1969-73, who turned…
12/15/09 CCR Criticizes Announcement that GTMO Detainees Will Be Moved to Illinois Prison
In response to the announcement today that the Obama administration would be transferring detainees from Guantánamo to the Thomson Correctional Center in Illinois, Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) Executive Director Vincent Warren…
12-14-09 Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Suit Seeking Accountability for Guantanamo Torture
Center for Constitutional Rights – December 14, 2009-Today, the United States Supreme Court refused to review a lower court’s dismissal of a case brought by four British former detainees against Donald Rumsfeld…
12/14/09 U.S. Said to Pick Illinois Prison to House Detainees
By Charlie Savage From The New York Times | Original Article WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is expected to announce on Tuesday that it has selected a prison in northwestern Illinois to…
12-10-09 Nuremberg Revisited: Obama Administration Files To Dismiss Case Against John Yoo
By Jonathan Turley From PuppetGov.com | Original Article John Yoo is being defended in court this month by the Administration. Not the Bush Administration. The Obama Administration. As with the lawsuits over…
12-09-09 Annotated Aggression: Being Jay Bybee
By David Swanson From AfterDowningStreet.org | Original Article It’s October 23, 2002, and you’re Jay Bybee, the man in charge of the Office of Legal Counsel in the United States Department of…
12-04-09 NYT Editorial: Photos and Freedom
From The New York Times | Original Article In a sad but unsurprising denouement this week, the Supreme Court tossed out a federal appellate court ruling that would have required the government…