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OPINION

If You Care About Freedom, Free the Gitmo 60


May 20, 09 1:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - About 60 of the inmates at Guantanamo haven't committed any crime. The courts cleared them of all charges, and the military declared them not dangerous. Yet they’re entering their eighth year in custody, because Congress apparently doesn’t give a damn, Sabin Willett writes in the New York ... More »

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House of Representatives • Guantanamo Bay • detainees • Uighurs • Sabin Willett

(AP) - In a major rebuke to President Obama, the Senate voted overwhelmingly today to block the transfer of Guantanamo detainees to the United States and denied the administration the millions it sought to close the prison. The 90-6 Senate vote, paired with a similar House action last week, was a clear... More »

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Barack Obama • Senate • Guantanamo Bay • Obama administration

 Dems Won't Fund Gitmo Closing 


May 19, 09 12:33 PM CDT
(AP) - President Obama's allies in the Senate will not provide funds to close the Guantanamo Bay prison by January, a top Democratic official said today. With debate looming on Obama's spending request to cover military and diplomatic operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, the official says Democrats will deny the Pentagon... More »

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Congress • Guantanamo Bay • congressional Democrats • war funding • detainees • Obama administration • President Obama

(Newser) - Lakhdar Boumediene, the Guantanamo detainee who took on the Bush administration in a landmark Supreme Court case, was released today and flown to France to be reunited with relatives, the Washington Post reports. He was named the plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush, the Supreme Court case that extended... More »

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France • Guantanamo Bay • hunger strike • Boumediene • Boumediene v. Bush • Lakhdar Boumediene

Obama to Restart Gitmo Tribunals

But this time, suspects will have more rights, legal protections

May 15, 09 6:21 AM CDT
(AP) - President Obama will restart military tribunals for a small number of Guantanamo detainees—reviving a trial system he once said the Bush administration had abused—but with new legal protections for terror suspects, officials said. The trials will remain frozen for another 4 months as the administration adjusts the legal... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • Obama administration • Guantanamo tribunals • President Obama • Jay-ZTV

Democrats Lose Patience Over Wars, Gitmo

Support ebbs on left as Obama's security plans look uncertain

May 14, 09 9:41 AM CDT
(Newser) - Democrats are having misgivings about the war in Afghanistan and the shuttering of Guantanamo Bay, particularly in the more liberal House, the New York Times reports. Though Congress is sure to approve another $96.7 billion in war funding, the House took out $80 million to close Guantanamo, saying the... More »

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Afghanistan • Barack Obama • Congress • Richard Nixon • Democrat • Guantanamo Bay • House Democrats • Obama administration • President Obama • Afghanistan exit strategy • David Obey • Alan Grayson

 Gitmo Inmates 
 May Be Held 
 Indefinitely in US 

Detainees may be held without trial under authority of national security court

May 14, 09 2:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Obama administration is considering moving the remaining detainees at Guantanamo Bay to US soil and holding them in prisons indefinitely without trial, the Wall Street Journal reports. The proposal would take place under the authority of a new national-security court, according to Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has met... More »

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military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • detention without trial • Obama administration • Jay-ZTV

(Newser) - The Obama administration will reinstate the military tribunal system for trying Guantanamo Bay detainees, after moving the proceedings onto American soil and instituting several changes, including barring evidence obtained by techniques like waterboarding, officials tell the Washington Post. Human rights groups had hoped Obama’s 120-day suspension of the... More »

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Barack Obama • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • Obama administration • Guantanamo tribunals

 Dems Deny Obama 
 Funds to Close Gitmo 

House Democrats say president needs to come up with a plan first

May 5, 09 2:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama's request for $80 million to close Guantanamo Bay was cut from the House version of a war spending bill unveiled yesterday, CNN reports. Democratic lawmakers, whose bill totaled $94.2 billion, said if the president wants money to close Guantanamo Bay then he'll first have to come up... More »

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House Appropriations Committee • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • House Democrats • war funding • President Obama

(Newser) - Barack Obama is leaning towards reinstituting military commissions as a way of trying Guantanamo detainees, and could begin publicly doing so as soon as next week, officials tell the New York Times. Obama has been a staunch critic of the system, but the administration is increasingly worried about the... More »

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Barack Obama • torture • military tribunal • Guantanamo Bay • harsh interrogation • Military Commissions Act • military commissions • Obama administration

Fleischer: 
Subpoena Me
—I Dare You

Ex-Bush spokesman
would 'be proud to testify' about torture

May 1, 09 12:07 PM CDT
(Newser) - Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer doesn’t think there should be an investigation of his boss’s torture program. But “I’ll be proud to testify if I get a subpoena,” he said during a panel discussion yesterday. “I’m proud of what we did to protect... More »

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Bush administration • torture • investigation • Guantanamo Bay • subpoena • black sites • Ari Fleischer • Guantanamo prisoners • waterboarding • Gideon Yago

On Gitmo, Obama Has a NIMBY Problem

Congress balks at funds, authority to
move detainees to US

May 1, 09 9:01 AM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama has ordered that Guantanamo be closed by the end of the year, but finding a place for the prisoners the administration can neither try nor export is turning into a political nightmare. A Pentagon request for $50 million to relocate the prisoners is running into crossfire in Congress,... More »

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Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • appropriations • Guantanamo prisoners • Obama administration

Shrink Waterboard 'Experts'
Racked Up $1K a Day

Operation's architects lacked training in conducting interrogations, say CIS records

May 1, 09 4:13 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two US psychologists with no training in conducting interrogations boasted of earning $1000 a day designing and helping to implement use of waterboarding techniques on CIA detainees, reports ABC News. Bruce Jessen and Jim Mitchell, former military officers, are considered the architects of the interrogation operation that Barack Obama has... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • prisoners • detainee • interrogation • waterboarding • interrogation techniques • harsh interrogation • detainees • Bruce Jesson • Jim Mitchell

(Newser) - The fate of prisoners at Guantanamo Bay remains unclear, but Robert Gates hinted at one possibility during a Senate hearing today, reports the New York Times: Inmates who aren’t tried, repatriated, or sent to other countries could wind up in the US. Of the 250 “enemy combatants” in... More »

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Robert Gates • Guantanamo Bay • Department of Defense • Guantanamo prisoners • Gitmo

Spanish Judge to Investigate Torture at Gitmo

Declassified memos show there were abuses, Garzon says

Apr 29, 09 2:56 PM CDT
(Newser) - A Spanish judge has launched a probe into allegations of torture at the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, AFP reports. Baltasar Garzon initiated the investigation after reading statements by Spanish citizen Hamed Abderrahman Ahmed and three other prisoners about their treatment there. Garzon also said that the memos recently declassified... More »

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Bush administration • torture • terrorism • Spain • Guantanamo Bay • Augusto Pinochet • Auguste Pinochet • legal action • Baltasar Garzon

Court Approves Ex-Inmates' Suit Against CIA

Torture allegations trump state secrets argument, panel rules

Apr 29, 09 7:24 AM CDT
(Newser) - Five men who allege they were kidnapped and tortured on the orders of CIA agents may bring suit in federal court, an appeals panel ruled yesterday. Presidents Bush and Obama both contended that the case should be dismissed to protect classified evidence. But a federal appeals court panel ruled presidential... More »

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Bush administration • CIA • rendition • torture • Guantanamo Bay • George W. Bush • Eric Holder • US 9th Circuit Court of Appeals • Obama administration • President Obama • Binyam Mohamed

Holder Visits Another Famous Torture Facility

On trip seeking help to close Gitmo, AG stops by Tower of London

Apr 27, 09 6:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eric Holder arrived in London yesterday and paid a visit to a prison as notorious in its time as Guantanamo Bay, the AP reports. The attorney general listened quietly as his guide at the infamous Tower of London described scenes of torture—such as the interrogation of Guy Fawkes, who... More »

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torture • London • United Kingdom • Guantanamo Bay • Tower of London • attorney general • Eric Holder

ANALYSIS

Waterboarding Isn't Easier 2nd Time, or 183rd

Turns out the body never gets used to simulated drowning

Apr 24, 09 2:39 PM CDT
(Newser) - Like many other forms of torture, waterboarding doesn’t get any easier with repeated exposure. After multiple sessions of the simulated drowning technique, accused al-Qaeda plotters Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah would at best have been able to slightly modify their response, explains Brian Palmer in Slate. The experience... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • intestines • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • detainees • torture memo

(Newser) - The Bush-era CIA memos made public last week revealed that an al-Qaeda suspect, Hassan Ghul, had been held in one of the agency’s secret jails. But the inadvertent disclosure of one name merely highlights how much the public still doesn’t know about the network of secret detention facilities,... More »

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CIA • secret prisons • Guantanamo Bay • interrogation • Human Rights Watch • harsh interrogation • Obama administration • memo

 CIA Waterboarded Gitmo 
 Detainee 183 Times in a Month 

That's twice CIA's max, challenges efficacy

Apr 19, 09 11:38 AM CDT
(Newser) - A Department of Justice memo that detailed interrogation techniques used on prisoners at Guantanamo Bay notes that in August 2002, suspected al-Qaeda official Abu Zubaydah was waterboarded 82 times, while the following March, 9/11 suspect Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was waterboarded 183 times. But as the blog Emptywheel points out, there's... More »

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CIA • torture • Guantanamo Bay • Khalid Sheikh Mohammed • waterboarding • Abu Zubaydah • memo

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