This report was originally published on Truthout. The Pentagon won’t release any details of an investigation initiated by the commander of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility revolving around the discovery of “contraband” at the prison, which included a magazine produced by an offshoot of al-Qaeda based in Yemen. Late last year, Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. [...]
February 4, 2012 | Filed under
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This exclusive report was originally published by Truthout on March 30, 2010. It was written by investigative reporter Jason Leopold. The Justice Department has quietly recanted nearly every major claim the Bush administration made about Abu Zubaydah the alleged al-Qaeda leader who was the first suspected terrorist subjected to the torture of waterboarding and other [...]
January 28, 2012 | Filed under
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This report was written by investigative reporter Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. Early last month, Air Force Capt. Michael Schwartz was summoned into the office of Rear Adm. David Woods, the new commander of Guantanamo, and was accused of “smuggling” into the detention facility an anti-Guantanamo pamphlet that featured the photographs of two [...]
January 23, 2012 | Filed under
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This exclusive report was written by Jason Leopold and originally publishedon Truthout Have you ever filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the FBI and received a written response from the agency stating that it could not locate records responsive to your request? If so, there’s a chance the FBI may have found [...]
January 18, 2012 | Filed under
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This report was originally published on Truthout and written by Jason Leopold. Pfc. Brandon Neely was standing at attention inside Camp X-Ray along with three-dozen or so other active-duty soldiers attached to the 401st Military Police Company from Fort Hood, Texas, during the afternoon of January 11, 2002. A busload of about 20 “enemy combatants” [...]
January 12, 2012 | Filed under
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Interview conducted by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. The Iraq war isn’t over. For tens of thousands of soldiers returning from the battlefield, it never will be. Some of these men and women will turn to alcohol and drugs to ease their mental injuries; some will end up homeless, unemployed and divorced. Some [...]
December 22, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout President Barack Obama would like the world to know that the US can do whatever it damn well pleases, thank you very much. Obama also wants the whole, wide world to get this through its thick skull: only rogue governments that implement a [...]
December 16, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. The photograph on the cover of Andrew Kolin’s book is all too familiar. Police officers dressed in riot gear, gripping batons, square off against protesters in what appears to be a tense situation that is on the brink of turning violent. Although the [...]
December 11, 2011 | Filed under
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This report was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. The Department of Homeland Security says it is processing a separate FOIA request Truthout files with the agency in October for documents pertaining to Occupy Wall Street. FBI headquarters in Washington, DC claims it can’t find any internal documents the agency may have [...]
November 23, 2011 | Filed under
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This story was written by Jason Leopold and originally published on Truthout. A video released by the Pentagon showing several Guantanamo detainees praying, exercising and playing soccer has angered Kuwaitis, who believe one of the prisoners is a citizen of the country and is being used by the US government as a “propaganda” tool in [...]
November 20, 2011 | Filed under
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