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At Guantanamo War Court, A Question About Classified Information

At Guantanamo War Court, A Question About Classified Information »

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Pre-Trial hearing for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, Day 2 At 0845, two guards, each with a hand on one of Nashiri’s shoulders, escorted the prisoner to his seat.  At 0904, Judge James P. Pohl took the bench. Classified information and Al Nashiri Major Allison Daniels, a thirty-ish woman,  argued this motion on Nashiri’s behalf, which dealt [...]...

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Law

Dispatch From Guantanamo: Can Spiral Notebooks Be Used As A Weapon? »

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Dispatch From Guantanamo: Can Spiral Notebooks Be Used As A Weapon?

The large courtroom has six, four-seat defense tables in a column, to the left of the courtroom, facing the front. The seat on...

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A Tour Inside The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility »

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A Tour Inside The Guantanamo Bay Detention Facility

Crossposted from Freedom of the Press Foundation. Thanks to the generous financial support of the Freedom of Press Foundation, I traveled to Guantanamo during...

Jun 2 2013 / 1 comment / Read More »

Commentary

Environmental Justice: One Illegal Bid At A Time »

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Environmental Justice: One Illegal Bid At A Time

On April 21, the day before Earth Day, Tim DeChristopher was released from custody by the Department of Justice. He had served 21 months...

May 12 2013 / No comment / Read More »

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Torture

The Torture Memo Obama Never Rescinded »

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The Torture Memo Obama Never Rescinded

Nearly a year ago, I asked If Obama Withdrew the Yoo, Bradbury Torture Memos, What Government Opinion Now Covers The AFM and Appendix M? The question has direct relevance today, because the Army Field Manual on interrogation (FM 2-22.3) and its Appendix M governs current interrogation policy at...

May 6 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Law

The Justice Department’s Assault On Northern Ireland’s Peace Process And The First Amendment »

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The Justice Department’s Assault On Northern Ireland’s Peace Process And The First Amendment

Oral histories of political movements give us glimpses of the participants who helped shape the world we know today. They often provide raw, personal first-hand accounts of peoples’ struggles. These projects also help to maintain historical truths that are often tainted by government revisionism and...

Apr 29 2013 / 6 comments / Read More »

Torture

British Press: US Conspires With UK, Saudis To Hold Detainee With Evidence On Iraq War Lies »

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British Press: US Conspires With UK, Saudis To Hold Detainee With Evidence On Iraq War Lies

Once upon a time, Daily Kos had numerous diaries on the ongoing use of torture by the United States, or on the false evidence, much of it wrung from tortured prisoners held by the US or by foreign countries via rendition, that was used to...

Apr 24 2013 / No comment / Read More »

Nation

A Secret Plan By Obama to Shut Guantanamo? »

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A Secret Plan By Obama to Shut Guantanamo?

Some Guantanamo observers are telling investigative reporter Jason Leopold that the ethical breaches that have surfaced in the military tribunals over the past three months  may actually be intentional: Nearly a dozen years after terrorists guided commercial jets into the Pentagon and the World Trade...

Apr 15 2013 / 1 comment / Read More »

World

Nowruz: An Ancient Festival Which We Should Know About »

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Nowruz: An Ancient Festival Which We Should Know About

Some people say that it’s the 5774th time that Iranians across the world are celebrating the ancient Persian New Year festival, Nowruz. However, some history experts believe that Nowruz has been enshrined and observed for more than 15,000 years, even before the official establishment of...

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Nation

The Freedom Of Information Act: The Most Powerful Weapon In My Reporting Arsenal »

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The Freedom Of Information Act: The Most Powerful Weapon In My Reporting Arsenal

  Crossposted from Freedom of The Press Foundation. Jason Leopold is Truthout’s lead investigative reporter. Freedom of the Press Foundation is crowd-funding in support of his FOIA work and on-the-scenes reporting at the Guantanamo Bay trials. You can fund his work here. A couple of years ago, a friend handed...

Mar 20 2013 / 2 comments / Read More »

World

Newly Released Autopsy Reports Raise Questions About Circumstances in Deaths of Two Guantanamo Detainees »

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Newly Released Autopsy Reports Raise Questions About Circumstances in Deaths of Two Guantanamo Detainees

Truthout reports, in this exclusive by Jason Leopold: The US government detained at Guantanamo a prisoner who was hospitalized for auditory hallucinations he suffered as a teenager and had twice attempted suicide in 2009 while imprisoned at the detention facility. In March of 2009, Hajji...

Mar 6 2013 / No comment / Read More »
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