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Monroe Anderson

Monroe Anderson

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Shaun Mullen

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Manzer Munir

Alda Sigmundsdóttir

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Obama Bribing, Coercing Pacific Island Nation To Take Gitmo Detainees

Obama Bribing, Coercing Pacific Island Nation To Take Gitmo Detainees

The carrot being offered is $200 million Palau if they take 17 of the Gitmo detainees. The stick is possible implications for a mutual defense and cooperation treaty with the tiny island republic that’s up to be reviewed this year. So basically, (...)

10 jui. 2009 | | Rob Port

What to do About Guantanamo ?

What to do About Guantanamo ?

The US Congress is refusing to allow President Obama to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, a symbol of torture and abuse. Apparently their vote was driven by fears of public backlash if those detained were brought to prisons in the US. Obama had failed to (...)

22 mai. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Some gift!

Some gift!

Obama visits France, asks Sarkozy to accept on French territory one of the Guantanamo detainees.

6 Apr. 2009 | | Chris Hugo

Obama v. Cheney on Guantanamo, Prosecutions, Torture

Obama v. Cheney on Guantanamo, Prosecutions, Torture

President Barack Obama on 60 Minutes Sunday night : ’ Commenting on former Vice President Dick Cheney’s recent assertion that the closure of Guantanamo will make America more vulnerable to attack, Obama said, "I fundamentally disagree (...)

23 mar. 2009 | | Juan Cole

Obama’s Guantanamo - Irresponsibility Begins

Obama's Guantanamo - Irresponsibility Begins

Hours after taking office, Barack Obama ordered military prosecutors in the Guantanamo war crimes tribunals to ask for a 120-day halt in all pending cases and a judge granted the request on Wednesday in the case against a young Canadian. When defense (...)

22 jan. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Has Eric Holder Experienced Waterboarding ?

At his confirmation hearing Thursday, Attorney General Nominee Eric Holder, was asked about the technique of waterboarding, which induces the sensation of drowning, was torture. Mr. Holder answered yes but like Barack Obama we received no specifics on how (...)

19 jan. 2009 | | Liberally Conservative

Obama Backing Away From Closing Down Guantanamo Bay

Obama Backing Away From Closing Down Guantanamo Bay

On the campaign trail Obama found Guantanamo Bay to be an easy target to fire upon in front of adoring left-wing crowds. Time and again he promised to close down the facility and end the “torture” (like, um, music played loudly) that is (...)

12 jan. 2009 | | Rob Port

Worthington : Obama and Holder Must Return to a September 10th Mind-Set

Andy Worthington writes in a guest op-ed for IC. During the election campaign, one of the sticks with which John McCain’s team attempted to beat Barack Obama was a claim that he was soft on terrorism, or, as Senator McCain’s national (...)

8 déc. 2008 | | Juan Cole

The Conservative View on Guantanamo

The Conservative View on Guantanamo

A federal judge—ironically the same one who’d ruled earlier that Guantanamo prisoners weren’t entitled to civil review—ruled that five men held there for seven years be released. There was insufficient evidence that they were (...)

24 nov. 2008 | | Phil Windley

Scientology Cult Claims Another Victim

The Scientology cult’s former international chief of security, a man with multiple sclerosis, has died in Scientology’s "Rehabilitation Project Force" (RPF). The RPF is Scientology’s internal prison network. Uwe Stuckenbrock, a native of (...)

15 Oct. 2008 | 1 comment | Lilly von Marcab

Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Guantanamo Counsel Resigns in Disgust

Lt. Col. Darrel J. Vandeveld resigned from the military commissions tribunals at Guantanamo convinced that the system denies defense attorneys exculpatory evidence that the government knows about, which might prove the innocence of the defendant. The (...)

14 oct. 2008 | | Juan Cole

Habeas Corpus Rights for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners

Habeas Corpus Rights for Guantanamo Bay Prisoners

In a recent case, the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba have the rights of habeas corpus which are guaranteed by the US Constitution. I expect the merits of this case to be debated vigorously and that historians will have (...)

22 Jul. 2008 | 3 comments | Bobill

McClatchy Guantanamo Guards Abused Known Innocents

McClatchy Guantanamo Guards Abused Known Innocents

John McCain’s attack on the Supreme Court for upholding the right of Habeas Corpus even for Guantanamo detainees was self-serving and hypocritical. But it was also ethically wrong, because the Guantanamo system is ethically wrong. Tom Lasseter of (...)

16 jui. 2008 | | Juan Cole

If Not Guantánamo, Then Where ?

According to sources it did not name the Associated Press claims, “the Bush administration is nearing a decision to close the Guantánamo Bay detainee facility and move the terror suspects there to military prisons elsewhere.” All the suspect (...)

27 jui. 2007 | | Liberally Conservative

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