Republicans seek tougher Guantanamo rules
© AFP/File Paul J. Richards AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama’s Republican foes unveiled legislation to toughen rules on the detention and trials…
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Obama Approves Indefinite Detention Without Trial
Restart of Military Tribunal System Announced Wiki Commons image Jason Ditz AntiWar President Obama today signed an executive order that will formalize the indefinite extralegal…
Obama to lift freeze on new Guantanamo trials
Guantanamo Bay prison at Camp Delta in Cuba © AFP/File Paul J. Richards AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama said Monday he would…
Military ‘abusing’ US soldier in WikiLeaks case
© AFP/File Thomas Coex AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – A lawyer for the US soldier suspected of passing secret files to WikLeaks accused military authorities of…
US high court debates immunity of top Bush official
John Ashcroft © AFP/Getty Images/File Alex Wong AFP WASHINGTON (AFP) – The US Supreme Court on Wednesday heard a complaint brought by a Muslim American,…
Obama, in blow to closing Guantanamo, signs law
Alister Bull Reuters President Barack Obama, in a setback to hopes for the quick closing of the Guantanamo Bay prison, reluctantly signed a bill on…
Obama’s Liberty Problem: Why Indefinite Detention by Executive Order Should Scare the Hell Out of People
The proposal to create a special new legal system by Executive Order is an extremely dangerous end run around Congress and the Judiciary. Vince Warren…
White House Drafts Executive Order for Indefinite Detention
Dafna Linzer ProPublica The White House is preparing an Executive Order on indefinite detention that will provide periodic reviews of evidence against dozens of prisoners…
Guantánamo detainee Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani cleared of 284 terror charges
Setback for Obama as first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court is convicted on just one of 285 charges Chris McGreal Guardian…
Iran needs stern lessons in freedom
Glenn Greenwald Salon Here is the latest Outrage of Evil from the Persian Hitlers: Iran’s intelligence minister confirmed on Wednesday that two U.S. citizens detained…
Injustice in the age of Obama
Barack Obama, a former law professor, should have a healthy respect for civil liberties, but his actions suggest not. Cindy Sheehan AlJazeera Since being the…
Guantanamo Detainee Released Released After 8 Years for Lack of Evidence
Associated Press WASHINGTON — A federal judge has ordered the release of a Guantanamo Bay detainee imprisoned at the island facility for more than 8…
Exclusive: Caught in America’s legal black hole
Guantanamo still holds 176 detainees, and one of them is about to stand trial – in a test of Barack Obama’s resolve to embrace the…
NY Rep: Investigate Torture or Face Road to “Tyranny”
Sahil Kapur Raw Story WASHINGTON – A New York Democrat argued that failing to prosecute former Bush administration officials complicit in the use of torture…