Torture Comes Home to Roost
By Andrew P. Napolitano “Maybe there is a beast. Maybe it’s only us.” ~ William Golding (1911-1993), “Lord of the Flies” Hidden within some folks…
Guantanamo
Top Bush Lawyer Admits Guantánamo Military Commissions “Doomed From the Start”
By Brett Wilkins Ted Olson – the former US solicitor-general in the George W. Bush administration who argued against basic legal rights for Guantánamo Bay…
White House Mulls Plan To House Haitian Migrants At Guantanamo Bay
By Tyler Durden At a moment the US says it is nearing its longtime goal of closing the Guantanamo Bay prison facility which once held…
Gitmo’s Oldest Detainee Freed After 20 Years With No Charges
By Tyler Durden The United States on Saturday released the oldest prisoner who was held for two decades at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba – after his…
Bush, Guantanamo and the Rule of Law
By Judge Andrew Napolitano Last week, the government announced that it does not want to try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four of his colleagues whom…
Military Torturers at Guantanamo Bay
By Andrew P. Napolitano After a jury in 2006 declined to impose the death penalty on Zacarias Moussaoui, who had just pleaded guilty to being…
“20 Years of US Torture and Counting”: Report Details Post-9/11 Abuse at Gitmo and Beyond
By Jessica Corbett A report released Sunday, nearly 20 years after the first prisoners arrived at Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, details “systematic abuses carried out…
“Anti-Democratic and Cowardly”: US Building New Secret Courtroom at Guantánamo
By Brett Wilkins Human rights advocates and attorneys representing Guantánamo Bay detainees on Thursday decried a secret new courtroom reportedly being built by the Pentagon…
Gitmo Jurors Liken CIA Torture to Acts by “Most Abusive Regimes in Modern History”
By Andrea Germanos Seven out of the eight members of a military jury called for clemency to be granted in the case of a Guantanamo…
“Historic Victory”: US Judge Rules Guantánamo Detainee’s Imprisonment Illegal
By Brett Wilkins Two weeks after a review board cleared Guantánamo Bay prisoner Asadullah Haroon Gul for release, a federal judge ruled this week that…
CIA Torture Cover-Up Still Looms Over 9/11 Trials at Guantánamo
By Brett Wilkins U.S. war crimes in the so-called War on Terror were back in the spotlight Tuesday as pretrial hearings for alleged 9/11 mastermind…
Two Dozen Senators Tell Biden It Is “Past Time” to Finally Close Guantánamo
By Jessica Corbett Echoing recent demands from human rights advocates and former detainees, two dozens members of the U.S. Senate Democratic Caucus on Friday pressed…
Gitmo Torture Survivor Asks Court to Reject Eleventh-Hour Trump Bid to Deny Medical Evaluation
Lawyers representing Guantánamo prisoner Mohammed al Qahtani are urging a federal judge to deny an effort by the Trump administration in its final days to reverse a…
Amnesty Calls on Biden to Close Guantánamo and End Military Commissions “Once and For All”
By Jessica Corbett After U.S. military prosecutors filed formal charges against three longtime prisoners at the Guantánamo Bay offshore prison for nearly 15 years without…