tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18605774777967588322012-01-26T12:24:51.372-05:00From the Law Office of H. Candace GormanH. Candace Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15947267626405585323noreply@blogger.comBlogger9901100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-72806843919267508152012-01-26T12:24:00.005-05:002012-01-26T12:24:51.384-05:00

THIS IS THE VERY LAST QUESTION AND ANSWER AND AFTER READING THIS I HOPE YOU WILL CLICK HERE AND GO TO THE ARTICLE AND READ THE WHOLE AMAZING INTERVIEW: The Talking Dog: As we come to a point in time ten years after the opening of Guantanamo Bay for military detentions of persons captured in Afghanistan and elsewhere, is there anything else I should have asked you but didn't, or anything else

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Sorry I am a little late posting this-but it is as timely as ever.... Happy birthday Gitmo ROGER FITCH ESQ • THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 2012 Milestones and millstones ... Guantánamo's tenth birthday, as Bill of Rights turns 220 ... National Defence Authorisation Act allows for exciting possibilities - including military detention of US civilians ... The new Reichstag Fire Decree ..

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Not too long ago one of the Guantanamo attorneys was accused of smuggling underpants to a detainee....now another attorney is accused of smuggling pamphlets....The search process before seeing a client is exhaustive---and exhausting and the notion that any one of us would risk our law licenses to bring in this trivia is beyond the pale....but that doesn't stop the military. Read the whole

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Scott Horton has more on this issue here.

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President Obama pledged to close the Guantanamo Bay prison three years ago. In the last presidential election, the major candidates all agreed that Guantanamo had undermined U.S. legitimacy and national security and endangered our troops abroad, and that the prison should be shuttered. Ten years after it opened, the Guantanamo prison still holds 171 prisoners, at a cost of $800,000 each every

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http://www.democracynow.org/2012/1/10/guantnamo_prisoners_launch_hunger_strike

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as found on Michael Moore's website: http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/guantanamos-dark-10th-anniversary If you are in the DC area I hope to see you out there protesting this ominous anniversary in front of the white house tomorrow (january 11)....but wherever you are- raise your voice and tell Obama to follow through...at least on this one promise... to close Guantanamo.

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For confirming that the men at Guantanamo do not have the right to participate in their appeals... Sorry I can't post to the decision but it was just a one liner anyway....DENIED. This was in response to the Writ of Mandamus that I filed in the U. S. Supreme Court asking them to Order the DC Circuit Court to provide an unclassified version of the documents that I filed on behalf of my client in

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This statement is made by over 100 lawyers who have represented or currently represent men imprisoned at Guantánamo Bay in federal habeas corpus proceedings. We are solo practitioners, partners and associates in law firms, federal public defenders and former prosecutors, law professors and human rights activists who practice in nearly every area of the law. We hail from nearly every state in

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I guess someone should mention this to the Afghani men being held at Guantanamo because of their connection to the Taliban..... KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Afghan President Hamid Karzai on Saturday welcomed remarks from the Obama administration that the Taliban were not necessarily America's enemies. Earlier this month, Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview with Newsweek magazine that the

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That is what the military is doing at Guantanamo right now....in a way they are only codifying what we all knew to be a fact: that the military commission system for trying the men at Guantanamo stinks to high heaven and has not a shred of legitimacy. The powers to be have now decreed that all legal mail between the detainees being tried in the military commission and their attorneys will be read

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The Republican dream ROGER FITCH ESQ • THURSDAY, DECEMBER 22, 2011 Congressional fat cats ... Corporate crime and financial defalcation ... Constitutional violations ... Gridlock on judicial and ambassadorial nominations ... Roger Fitch surveys the Washington landscape  ..... Heedless of all this corporate crime and financial defalcation, Congress is busy stripping law courts of

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ANTI-TORTURE ACTIVISTS TO “OCCUPY”  WASHINGTON, JAN. 2-12 MARKING TENTH ANNIVERSARY OF GUANTANAMO, EVENTS TO INCLUDE 10-DAY FAST, COURTROOM SUPPORT FOR ACTIVISTS WHO SPOKE OUT IN CONGRESS, AND A HUMAN CHAIN FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO CONGRESS WASHINGTON, D.C. — January 11 will mark the tenth anniversary of the first detainees' arrival at the U.S.-controlled detention facility in Guantanamo

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Follow this link to Amnesty's latest report on Guantanamo....a decade of damage to human rights.

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For those of you who are wondering exactly how bad this new law is...the one that Obama is going to sign into law very soon I will put some links to things to read that will bring you up to date. The bottom line is that Obama not only bought into Guantanamo but has now expanded the concept to include U. S. citizens....This has been a slippery slope since 2001 but instead of slowing things down

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what a fucking mess.  Emptywheel has more here.

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Land of the brave Monday, November 21, 2011 Justinian in Roger Fitch Esq Former general counsel of the CIA under investigation over drone attack "murder" remark ... War crimes don't need a war (apparently) ... Novel offences likely to remain on the books ... Ideological Republican circuit judges flout the Supreme Court ... Our Man in Washington reports   "Aside from the humanitarian aspects

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JAPANESE AMERICAN CITIZENS LEAGUE AND ASIAN AMERICAN LEGAL GROUPS FILE AMICUS APPEAL IN HAMDAN CASE TO D.C. CIRCUIT Charges that Military Commissions are an Unconstitutional Second-Class System of Criminal Justice for Non-Citizens A number of Japanese and Asian groups have filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals, Washington, D.C. in United States v. Hamdan, charging that Congress

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Provisions in the Defense Authorization bill would make it even harder..to close Guantanamo and send the men home who are not going to face trial. Senator Udall has proposed an amendment which is pretty much the best we can do. This is summary of Udall's amendment No. 1107: Here’s a summary of the Udall Amendment: The amendment by Senator Mark Udall would strike all of the detention

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T/h to Jason Leopold at Truthout who has more on the Pentagaon's propaganda here.

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Moe Davis was the Chief Prosecutor for the military at Guantanamo under the Bush administration-until he wasn't. Moe, who was once a fan of the commission process, changed his mind about the process after witnessing first hand the political shenanigans going on behind the scenes. Since resigning from the position in October 2007 Moe has  spoken out against the commission process on numerous

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These things happen to rogue nations.....like the US. Now if we could just get his little brother out of Guantanamo and up there. t/h the talking dog

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The only thing that surprises me is that they didn't wait until the hearings are over to promulgate the rules.... here they are. You see, in  a proceeding that resembles due process the rules are not put forth two days before things get started....but then there is nothing that resembles due process in the military commission so this really comes as no surprise. And as Emptywheel points out...

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I rarely go off topic but today is one of those rare days...click on the link for easy instructions on how to do your part (if you can't go out and join the crowds...or even if you can) for the occupy wallstreet movement. If everyone did this everyday we would send a message that would costs the banksters a few cents along the way: http://thegallopingbeaver.blogspot.com/2011/11/99-

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A new article at truthout by Almerindo Ojeda of the Guantanamo Tesimonials Project offers a possible (and disturbing) explanation for the three men who died at Guantanamo in 2006. Almerindo takes a look at what we know about the three deaths and compares it to what we know about the torture of Ali Al-Marri- a man from Qatar who came to the United States on a student visa in 2001. There are a lot

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I have explained to people when giving speeches about Guantanamo that the Department of "justice" under Obama is actually quite a bit worse than it was under Bush. An example of this is found in the latest article at truthout by Jason Leopold regarding Abu Zubaydah. I could try to summarize what this is all about but I think it is better if you just read the article....

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Only in the new U. S. of A. could this be an issue, the next man at Guantanamo who is set to have his case heard at a military commission is asking the judge to let him know if he will be released if the jury acquits him. You can read more about this odd question here. The bottom line is that in the kangaroo court also known as the military commission there is no guarantee of release if you are

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I don't even have words to describe my disgust and anguish at our latest assassination by drone- Jim White at Emptywheel has the story here and here.

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Comforting the comfortableTuesday, October 18, 2011Justinian in Alien Tort Statute, Citizens United, Donald Rumsfeld, Rendition, Roger Fitch Esq, Torture, US Supreme CourtAnalysing the US Supremes most recent term - plenty of goodies for big business, nothing for plaintiff lawyers ... Alien Tort Statute up for a workout ... Torture cases batted around the circuit courts ... Rendition victims lose

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Remember Abu Zubaydah? If you have forgotten Jason Leopold at truthout has a sad reminder for you here. Just to jog your memory- when Zubaydah was captured in Pakistan back in the spring of 2002 we were told he was the number 3 in al-Qaeda -so we water boarded him 100 times or so and subjected him to lots of other torture because that was the only way to save our country- however sometime

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Pretty much from the moment he moved into the white house he has been a disaster.... but who could have predicted that he would be this bad?For more discussion and insight:Emptywheel here , here and here.Andy Worthington here.and Democracy Now here.

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When I watched this tape of the two released American hikers who were held in Iran for over two years...and I listened to their experience and treatment I could only think- change the name of the captors from Iranian to American and this could be my client or one of the many other innocent men held at Guantanamo ...except of course for the fact that most of the men at Guantanamo are getting ready

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Steven Biko (18 December 1946 – 12 September 1977) RIP

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I don't write about this day. I mean what is there to say? We were attacked by some criminals and we decided in return to shred our constitution, terrorize a big chunk of the world and turn a blind eye to the criminals in our own country who wreaked havoc on the rule of law and our economy. So, since I don't write about this day I turn you to my friend the talking dog and to this piece on the

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By creating a new war crime.....conspiracy. It would be funny if it were not so pathetic. Read the opinion here. Some analysis here and reporting here.For those of you without either the time or the inclination to read the opinion let me just say that the military took a bunch of ass sucking military lawyers and created the new war crime by ignoring the law they were citing.

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Seems that detainees are not entitled to information about the rendition flights they were subjected to because, you know, states secrets .... and the fact that someone might actually then be held accountable. But those same documents are publicly available in a lawsuit involving money -between the owner of the plane used for the renditions and the the company that contracted to use the plane for

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The Military it seems is always striving to reach a new low so it should be no surprise that they have barred this 19 year veteran from reenlisting for having the nerve to discuss his experiences at Guantanamo with Truthout..... read about it here.

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First is another good article from Jeff Kaye on water torture and Rumsfeld:http://www.truth-out.org/more-evidence-water-torture-depravity-rumsfelds-military/1313618756 The second is an article in Esquire about the unfortunate Mr. Noor Uthman- AKA ISN 707-a man who pled guilty a month or so ago in the military commission-the only way out of Guantanamo these days.... and is now serving his 34

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Washington, August 2, 2011 – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) approved a Resolution today regarding the situation of the detainees at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The resolution urges the State to close the detention facility without delay and to arrange for the trial or release of the detainees. The Commission again concludes that the failure of the

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For those of you unfamiliar with David Hicks he is an Australian man who was held at guantanamo. The only way he could bust out of the hellhole was to plead guilty to things that were not illegal....a familiar theme for those who have managed to leave Gitmo after being charged in a military commission. David Hicks has written a book. If you are reading this blog from somewhere in the United

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First there is this excellent article by Jeff Kaye:http://www.truth-out.org/despite-rumsfeld-denial-evidence-shows-us-military-use-waterboarding-style-torture/1312225772And Time asks this question Was Torture worth it? http://swampland.time.com/2011/08/02/at-last-it-is-settled-the-u-s-committed-torture-but-was-it-worth-it/the article also highlights the panel discussion that Slate’s Dahlia

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I am providing a link to this article by the father of John Walker Lindh. I have read the story about John several times and I have often thought that this could be the child of so many of us....a young man pulled to Islam and its teachings who then finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time. My country has grown so intolerant and the need for "bad guys" never greater....and so we

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Click on the title to read an article by an intern at the World Can't Wait. Marie is a student from France who has been spending most of the year trying to figure out what makes Americans tick. As Marie describes it- The purpose of this article is not to find an answer for each question I had or wondered. Neither is it to explain all the issues of Guantánamo, but rather to show what People

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The post-legal societyWednesday, June 29, 2011Justinian in Guantanamo, Habeas, Roger Fitch Esq, War crimes, material supportReinventing the Constitution ... New war crime propped up by discredited 1818 case ... Pentagon stacks military commission review court ... Rogue circuit court circumvents habeasfor Guantanameros ... CIA homicides investigated by grand jury ... Our Man in Washington reports

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Thanks to the men and women in DC this week reminding our senators and representatives that Guantanamo must be closed and torture must stop.http://www.witnesstorture.org/pr-06-23-2011Witness Against Torture demands:Close the prison at Guantánamo Bay;Free all prisoners who have been cleared for release, ensuring their safe resettlement and providing asylum in the U.S. for those unable to go

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A few weeks ago I wrote an op-ed that I hoped to get published in an Agerian newspaper-to explain the horrific plight of my Algerian client at Guantanamo. Although my letter did not get published a very helpful individual living in Algeria was able to get a story published about my client and the op-ed that I wrote. The article appeared yesterday in the Oran Daily, the best and biggest

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It has been a busy time and I haven't had the time to put up links to some interesting articles out there. First two by retired Col. Moe Davis. You might recall that once upon a time he was the chief prosecutor of the military commissions at Guantanamo. He eventually retired in disgust and now speaks out openly against the mess we call Guantanamo. The following two articles pretty well sums up

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Andy Worthington has this update on the man that the military claims committed suicide at Guantanamo last week. Carol Rosenberg at the Miami Herald has this interview with the man's attorney. Not only did the military have the incorrect name for this man-his real name is Hajji Nassim- but also the shocking information that the man suffered from serious mental health issues- since he was a very

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Jason Leopold at truthout has a very disturbing story today about Abu Zubaydah- as though being waterboarded 83 + times, placed in coffin like boxes, threatened with execution and other forms of torture -was not enough..... Seems we also removed one of his eyes. Was it gouged out? Damaged so badly during his torture that it was surgically removed? Or perhaps just removed for the heck of it? Who

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The military announced the death of a 37 year old Afghani man by the name of Inayatullah who was found dead in an outdoor area at the gulag. The military claims he committed suicide. Like most events at Guantanamo we will probably never learn the truth but I will tell you this- it is impossible to fathom how someone could commit suicide in the outdoor area- a place where the men are under

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In keeping with Scott's own style Foreign Policy asks six questions of Scott:Last night, Harper's Magazine writer Scott Horton (pictured above left) won a National Magazine Award in the reporting category, beating out the favorite, Michael Hastings's Rolling Stoneprofile of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, who lost his job as commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan. Horton's winning entry was "The

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PROTEST ACTION AGAINST JOHN YOO...Friday, May 13Protest University of California complicity in tortureFire, Disbar and Prosecute war criminal John YooBerkeley Law (Boalt Hall) Graduation9:00 amThe Greek Theater (UC Berkeley campus)http://tinyurl.com/3owv25p

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Listen to Lawrence Wilkerson (former aid to Colon Powell) discuss the delusional Donald Rumsfeld and suggest that Rumsfeld should in fact be waterboarded to determine for himself whether or not waterboarding is torture.http://www.juancole.com/2011/05/wilkerson-wants-to-waterboard-rumsfeld.html

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Federal Public Defender Steven Wax debated John Yoo at an Alaska bar event last week. Read a summary of it here....but I can tell you without your even looking at the summary that this was no even battle....Yoo never had a chance in debating Steven......Good job Steven.

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Doesn't really matter for my clients....they had nothing to do with him anyway. I don't suppose this means we can move on????

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Joe Margulies is one of the habeas counsel who has been around since the beginning. As he contemplates the fact that we, the very men and women representing the men at Guantanamo, cannot look at the newly disclosed documents he also sheds a reflective view on what all of this means.And Clive Stafford Smith, another of the habeas counsel who has been around since the beginning of the Guantanamo

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As most of you know, we, the habeas attorneys, have been gagged from talking about the wiki-leak documents. Several of us are discussing a court challenge to the gag order. For me this is particularly frustrating as I have discovered more lies by the government both to the court and to me....and to bring them to the court's attention I must fly to DC and file the documents from the "secret place.

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Adnan Latif was in the wrong place at the wrong time when Pakistani authorities .arrested him, his supporters say. Nine years later, it seems he’s still in the wrong place: detained at the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Soldiers there keep him isolated in a psychiatric ward and frequently beat him, according to his lawyer, David Remes. Because Latif joined a hunger strike in 2007

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The Psychologists and Psychiatrists that helped the interrogators at Guantanamo have - like everyone else involved in the torture of the men and boys at Guantananmo- gotten off pretty easy. When the state of Ohio refused to even do an investigation of Dr. Larry James' role in that torture a group of students from Harvard law school's International human rights clinic filed a lawsuit.For a summary

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Obama Orders Guantánamo Prisoners Transferred To Next President April 13, 2011 | ISSUE 47*15 WASHINGTON-After two years of false starts and protracted legal wrangling, President Barack Obama signed an executive order Tuesday authorizing the transfer of all 172 Guantánamo detainees to the next chief executive of the United States of America. "The president's bold decision to move these enemy

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You heard it hear first.And we should start with Senior Judge Silberman From the DC Circuit Court. He apparently has decided to ignore the oath he took as a judge and announced that he will never release a man from Guantanamo as long as the government can muster together some evidence that the person was connected in some way with either the Taliban, al-Qaeda or some associated force.... "some

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I try to confine my blog to issues relating to Guantanamo because I simply do not have time for the other issues-important as they are. But today I make an exception and I do it not only because of its importance but also because it ties in with Gitmo- ties in with the article immediately preceeding this one on this here blog- is another example of the general state of my pathetic country at this

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If you have not seen this piece by Jason Leopold and Jeff Kaye.....read it now.Based on the handwritten notes by a man that has often been described as the architect of the psychological torture inflicted on the men at Guantanamo-and who knows where else....Bruce Jessen.From the article:"But the handwritten notes obtained exclusively by Truthout drafted two decades ago by Dr. John Bruce Jessen,

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USA's new found regard for international lawMonday, March 21, 2011Justinian in Guantanamo, Law of war, Roger Fitch EsqBatting Padilla around the federal circuit courts ... The varied meanings ofhabeas corpus ... "Material support for terrorism" up for review in CMCR ... The Raymond Davis case - Vienna Convention applied to CIA agent ...Roger Fitch, Our Man in WashingtonDonald Rumsfeld just

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BELOW-IS THE AUDIO FROM THE COMMISSION APPEAL AND BRIEFS OF THE PARTIES:The audio of the Bahlul argument is here: https://webspace.utexas.edu/rmc2289/Bahlul%20oral%20argument.MP3 Bahlul's reply brief is here: http://www.lawfareblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/U-S-v-al-Bahlul-Reply-on-Specified-Issues-15-March-2011-2.pdf The US brief is here: https://webspace.utexas.edu/rmc2289/2011.03.12%

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I was going to try to keep this professional....but screw it. He doesn't deserve anything more professional. Yesterday G W Obama officially reinstated the military commissions. In this fact sheet found here they actually try to claim that this is somehow an extension of his promise to close Guantanamo and reinstate the rule of law- the promise he made in an executive order the day after he took

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Last week the New York Times provided an editorial a right without a remedy asking the supreme court to accept cert in the case commonly known as Kiyemba (link to Petitioner's reply brief). The long and the short of the issue is that the supreme court held in 2008 that habeas corpus can be utilized by the men at Guantanamo to challenge their detention. It seemed a great (if late) victory for

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In recently declassified memos Rumsfeld made clear that he knew the men detained at Guantanamo were not the worst of the worst... In fact he complained that most of the men should not have been brought to Guantanamo.In response Rumsfeld's "people" are trying to rewrite history by claiming that he never said the men at Guantanamo were the worst of the worst....Read the Seton hall report here:http:

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So far we have convicted in our military kangaroo proceedings: a kid, a cook, a man who worked at a "training camp" that closed two years before 9-11, and a man who refused to defend himself. Carol Rosenberg from the Miami Herald (the only reporter that has consistently followed the Guantanamo beat) reports on life for these unfortunate men after conviction.Under the Obabush administration it

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The Spanish high court has given the go-ahead to do what the US government refuses to do- investigate the claims of torture and other abuses at Guantanamo. The Spanish investigation is on behalf of a moroccan man who has lived in Spain for more than 13 years. Click on the title for a report (complete with links to the court documents) from the center for constitutional rights-which has been a

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It is hard to know where to start with this piece by Jason Leopold. I guess I will start by asking you to read it (click on the title).I think it is fair to say that everyone who gets involved in the guantanamo litigation (on behalf of the detainees) is forever changed. I have watched this with the many attorneys I have worked with over this years and with other people I have met along the way.

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First Tunisia, then Egypt and now Guantanamo. Sorry I am a little late reporting on this. Last month the military closed camp 4, the least restricted of the Guantanamo camps and moved all of the men to either camps 5 or 6. Both supermax facilities of the worst order. The men know that this is just the latest sign that the Obama administration has no intention of closing Guantanamo. After seeing

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Late last month I had the honor of speaking along side Prof. Cherif Bassiouni at Depaul law school here in Chicago. He published The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration: Is Anyone Responsible? late last year and we both discussed the issue of torture and accountability.Harper's Scott Horton now has this interview with the Professor.

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Bush cancels trip to Geneva Switzerland as human rights groups prepared a 2500 page indictment against him for mistreatment of the men at Guantanamo.He can run....but he can't hide. Scott Horton has more here.CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR MORE from Al Jazeera.and click here to view the preliminary indictment.

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Sadly another detainee died at Guantanamo this week. The military claims that the 48 year old man died of "natural causes." If you scroll through the records of the first batch of documents surrounding the death of individuals in military custody you will see that the military describes almost every death as being from natural causes.... who knows if we will ever know the truth surrounding Mr.

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For those of you who can't be bother listending to Obama tonight come and hear:Prof. M. Cherif Bassiouni, President Emeritus of the International Human Rights Law Institute, UN human rights expert in Afghanistan, & author of "The Institutionalization of Torture by the Bush Administration" (2010), refute George Bush’s claim in his memoir that the torture committed with his approval was legal

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INVITE: Amnesty International Panel Discussion With Former Guantanamo Detainee – Wed, Jan 26th 7:30-9:00pm at UC Berkeley Amnesty International USA would like to invite you to attend an exceptional panel discussion on Torture and Guantánamo Bay. In recognition of the two years that have passed since the Presidential Order to close Guantánamo, the goal of this event is to bring attention to the

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On October 16, 2009, the ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the government seeking all records relating to the deaths of detainees in U.S. custody as part of the so-called “war on terror.” On January 14, 2011, the government released its first batch of documents consisting of 2,624 pages, which include approximately 124 autopsy reports and 133 Reports of Investigation by the

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I guess I should mention that I have not spoken to Andy about the case at all....Read his analysis here.

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As Scott Horton reports:"Mamdouh Habib, an Egyptian-born Australian citizen, traveled to Pakistan in 2001, seeking work and religious schooling for his children. On October 5, 2001, he was arrested by Pakistani police while traveling by bus to Karachi. After several months of interrogation, he was sent to Egypt for five months, where he says he was subjected to intense torture including being

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Laurel Fletcher is a Clinical Visiting Professor of Law at Yale Law School. She is also a Clinical Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law (Boalt Hall) and is director of the school’s International Human Rights Law Clinic. She is also the author, with Eric Stover, of “The Guantanamo Effect: Exposing the Consequences of U.S. Detention and Interrogation Practices,”

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Well the good judge ruled in my clients case. Read the unclassified decision here. I will have more to say at some point in the future.Meanwhile hear what one of Abu Zubaydah's attorneys has to say about his own client's detention here.and I leave you with this........

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Today is the 9th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo Bay and marks two years since President Obama promised to close the prison and seek justice for its inmates. Yet instead of closing the prison, last Friday President Obama signed a bill blocking its closure and condemning its prisoners to indefinite detention without trial.The 173 prisoners still trapped inside now have little hope of

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*CLOSE GUANTÁNAMO WITH JUSTICE NOW* DAY OF ACTION AGAINST TORTURE, EXTRA-LEGAL DETENTION AT THE WHITE HOUSE AND JUSTICE DEPARTMENT, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 Anti-Torture activists to rally at the White House and march to the Justice Department as the prison at Guantánamo enters its 10th year; March to be led by 173 “detainees” wearing hoods and jumpsuits to represent the 173 men still held at

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And now we wait..........but as we wait I will continue the musical interlude.

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Next week my remaining client at Guantanamo will have his habeas corpus hearing. He has been held without charge at Guantanamo for almost ten years. May he soon be home with his family.

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RIP

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Our heroes at Wikileaks are at it again. I expect there will be some interesting documents related to the effort to find homes for the men who cannot return to their homeland, the deals that were made and the deals that fell through....and who knows what else.Those of us who are tired of living in a police state that monitors everyones every move are forever grateful to the men and women

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Today a New York jury convicted a former detainee from Guantanamo of one count of conspiracy...dismissing some 180 other counts. Does this mean our judicial system should be thrown away...for not convicting a man that was tortured and framed? Or does it mean that there is still hope for our system despite the fear mongers and those that would like to see us use military law whenever the word "

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Pioneering American composer Annea Lockwood is about to present in Baltimore In Our Name, a new composition featuring poetry written by Guantanamo Bay prisoners. Sponsored by Maryland ACLU, the concert will be held at An Die Musik on November 17 and involve Thomas Buckner, baritone, Annea Lockwood, electronics and voice, and Ted Mook, cello. Lockwood’s In Our Name, a collaboration with Buckner

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On this veteran's day 2010 I salute the military defense lawyers representing the men at Guantanamo. Men and women who have risked their careers to ensure that the Constitution they swore to uphold...is followed.

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Yesterday came and went and no one was indicted for destroying the videotapes that graphically showed the torture that we subjected at least three men. The statute of limitations is now up for that particular crime.Emptywheel has more here.Meanwhile Bush continues to brag about his role in the torture program.what a sick country.

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Well the "show sentencing" is over. By making his plea deal, the kid we locked up and tortured since age 15 agreed not to contest the made up accusations against him and the "jury" gave him 40 make believe years. Of course if he contested who knows what would have happened so it was probably the safest move for him. Soooo, this unfortunate young man will spend the next year in solitary

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As I examine the lies in my own clients habeas case....I am reminded of the history of lies that resulted in my clients almost 10 years of unlawful detention....Yes. The wrong fucking people are locked up.

H. Candace Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15947267626405585323noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-79501793622057600482010-10-26T16:03:00.004-04:002010-10-26T16:55:38.637-04:00

Another in a string of black days in this here country of mine. Today we (sorta) sentenced a young man for supposed war crimes committed while he was a child. Shame on us and shame on Canada for not coming to the rescue of its young son long ago. (every other Western nation took their citizens out of Guantanamo years ago....even the Australian Bush clone Howard....but Harper refused, even after

H. Candace Gormanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15947267626405585323noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1860577477796758832.post-85594328505136666942010-10-19T15:57:00.003-04:002010-10-19T15:59:14.134-04:00

David Hicks, aka "the Australian Taliban" has written an account of his treatment in US hands. The book is due out in another month or so ....but click on the title for a glimpse.

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CLICK ON THE TITLE TO READ THIS EXPOSE BY JASON LEOPOLD AND JEFFREY KAYE.The article discusses a little known directive by then deputy defense secretary Wolfowitz allowing for experimentation on some of the prisoners at Guantanamo. One of the many disturbing points about this article is how the Government turned the humane treatment of prisoners as a "privilege" to be afforded only those who were

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Well I still haven't gotten to the trial that is supposed to prove to us why we should turn our backs on our court system and adopt military law but here are a few updates to the important story from Dafna Linzer:http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2010/10/the-case-of-the-two-orders.htmlhttp://beta.wnyc.org/shows/bl/2010/oct/11/gitmo-ruling-changes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=

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