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Amherst, Mass., Agrees to Take Gitmo Detainees

By | 11.05.09 | 2:20 pm

An Amherst Special Town Meeting approved a resolution last night welcoming one or two cleared Guantanamo Bay detainees to Amherst, Mass. — once Congress agrees to lift the latest bans on their transfer. The town of 30,000 residents says it’s the first municipality in the nation to officially More…

Government Won’t Appeal Gitmo Detainee’s Habeas Case — but Military Commission Charges Still Pending

By | 11.05.09 | 11:55 am

Fouad al Rabiah, a Kuwaiti Airways engineer accused of being an aide to Osama bin Laden who recently won his habeas corpus case in federal court, is a step closer to going home. McClatchy newspapers reports that the 50-year-old father of four was moved to the More…

Did Gitmo Defense Lawyer Break Any Laws?

By | 08.21.09 | 11:16 am

That’s what I asked Joshua Dratel, Chair of the John Adams Project Advisory Committee and a prominent defense lawyer who has represented numerous terror suspects before. Speaking this morning after the news broke that the Department of Justice is investigating military defense lawyers representing terror suspects, More…