Check out this Bmaz post at Emptywheel about a rumor circulating through Arabic-language media that Ibn Shaikh al-Libi, a member of al-Qaeda who was tortured at the behest of the United States before claiming that Saddam Hussein had lent material support to the terrorist movement, has committed suicide in More…
Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-Mich.), pushing the Republican bill that would prevent the closure of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba:
Releasing hardcore radical jihadists into Michigan or anywhere else in the United States should horrify law-abiding citizens. It would immediately and unnecessarily endanger American lives by sending
So says Condoleezza Rice, the former national security adviser and secretary of state to President George W. Bush, in this extraordinary talk with a student at Stanford University. Annie Lowrey at Foreign Policy does the hard work of transcribing, so I can simply cut-n-paste Rice’s recollection of her More…
A wealth of new details emerged Tuesday about how techniques designed to help captured U.S. troops resist torture formed the basis for the post-9/11 interrogation policies of the Bush-era Pentagon.
Instructors of those techniques proved to be eager in 2002 and 2003 to disseminate them to an emerging crop of More…
A Guantanamo Bay detainee who The Washington Post recently outed as a widely used but unreliable informant on his fellow prisoners won a court order for his release on Monday.
“In dozens of interviews over several years at the U.S. military prison — where he was rewarded with More…
The Department of Justice announced Monday that it would release one Yemeni detainee from Guantanamo Bay — a 38-year-old doctor picked up in Afghanistan and imprisoned without charge since 2002.
Not surprisingly, the administration won’t say just where Ayman Saeed Batarfi will go.
By now you’ve probably heard that the Supreme Court has decided to hear the case of the sole legal U.S. resident detained indefinitely — yes, that means potentially forever — without charges, right here on U.S. soil. All because President Bush decided on his own authority, that this More…
As Atty. Gen. Michael Mukasey busily works to bury the abuses of the Bush administration, the Supreme Court may be getting ready to hand President George W. Bush yet another repudiation of his handling of detainees in the so-called global war on terror.
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