THE LUNATICS LATEST IDEA...

So it seems that Trump is considering sending a few of the ISIS prisoners to Guantanamo. Sigh.
Read about it here.

One of the many reasons to OPPOSE Kavanaugh

If you have not made calls or sent emails or letters to your senators opposing Kavanaugh's ascension  to the Supreme Court please do so NOW. And of course when it comes to Guantanamo he would be a disaster. Click here to read more.

h/o to Michigan Don.

A stunning development

It is always a pleasant surprise when a judge hearing Guantanamo issues actually follows the rules of law:

Judge Bars Statements Made by Guantánamo Detainees During F.B.I. Interrogations


https://nyti.ms/2nMB7dr?smid=nytcore-ios-share

h/o to David R.

From Roger Fitch and Our Freinds Down Below at Justinian

Controversy continues at Guantánamo, with the political firing of the commissions' Convening Authority; the sudden retirement of the judge in the Cole bombing case; fresh revelations in declassified prosecution documents; and new disclosures of top-secret CIA cables from Thailand detailing al-Nashiri's torture at the time Gina Haspel (now CIA director) was in charge.  

The group habeas previously reported in Fitch, al-Bihani, has now been argued in Washington DC, with the Trump administration claiming it can hold the men (including this man) for "100 years", more here. 

It's not very different from the government's justification in 2003 before the 9th Circuit. There, in the Gherebi case, the Justice Department lawyers - led by Robert McCallam, afterwards ambassador to Australia - presented arguments the court characterised as follows:

"Under the government's theory, it is free to imprison Gherebi indefinitely along with hundreds of other citizens of foreign countries, friendly nations among them, and to do with Gherebi and those detainees as it will, when it pleases, without any compliance with any rule of law of any kind, without permitting him to consult counsel, and without acknowledging any judicial forum in which its actions may be challenged. Indeed, at oral argument, the government advised us that its position would be the same even if the claims were that it was engaging in acts of torture and that it was summarily executing the detainees."  

READ THE REST HERE. 

We shall see...seems some psychologists are still trying to get back there....

Photo: John Moore/Getty Images

to do the military's dirty work...

PSYCHOLOGISTS VOTE NOT TO RETURN TO GUANTÁNAMO AMID HEATED DEBATE OVER TORTURE LEGACY

Shilpa Jindia

August 9 2018, 2:16 p.m.

Read about it here.

The man who almost escaped Guantanamo....

Paige Lavender (@paigelav) tweeted at 6:49 PM on Tue, Aug 07, 2018:
After 14 years of imprisonment without charge, Abdul Latif Nasser thought he was finally going home. Then Donald Trump won. https://t.co/g2o37QyGXr (by @jessicaschulb)
(https://twitter.com/paigelav/status/1026963446456311811?s=03)

h/o to Walt

Yes, it is time for a musical interlude...again.

The forgotten men...

Yes, it has been a long time since my last post. A lot has happened ... and yet nothing has happened. I will update when I can gather the psychic energy.
Until then --

Read this letter from one of the remaining forgotten men.