Friday, May 1, 2015

THE CIA's Man in the Senate....

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I guess I should have really called this "one of the CIA's men in the Senate." I don't even know where to start with Sena...

"All the Presidents Psychologists...."

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There was a lot of discussion about the role that the APA (American Psychological Association) played in the torture of detainees at Guantan...
Wednesday, April 29, 2015

How Guantanamo was chosen to house the detainees....

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My friend Professor Peter Jan Honigsberg of the University of San Francisco Law School (and the founder and director of the Witness to Guant...

Andy Worthington, Clifford Sloan and the rumor about the release of prisoners

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Andy Worthington has a good piece about the rumors regarding upcoming releases and specifically in regards to Shaker Aamer and within that c...
Tuesday, April 28, 2015

Yes, it makes me wanna holler....

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Romania

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The former Romanian president Ion lliescu admitted on Monday that he allowed the CIA to have a "quiet place to work" in his countr...
Monday, April 27, 2015

Good news.... bad news....

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Well let's look at the good news first: A Canadian judge ordered Khadr (the kid who landed in Guantanamo at age 15) to be released whi...
Thursday, April 23, 2015

Gallipoli 100 years later... musical interlude

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Wednesday, April 22, 2015

April fools day is long past... so is this for real??

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According to the Washington Post the pentagon is poised to start releasing prisoners at a quicker pace than it has in the past (sigh...) if ...

Amnesty International calls out Obama for giving amnesty to torturers....

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. Amnesty International on Tuesday issued a  140-page analysis  accusing the administration of effectively turning a blind eye to the  scat...

Guantanamo's longest hunger striker would like to go home.....

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Nine years. That is how long  Abdul Rahman Shalabi , has been on a hunger strike. Think about it: nine years of feeding tubes being stuck do...
Monday, April 20, 2015

Another Forever Detainee is Cleared....

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A federal parole board has cleared another Guantánamo “forever prisoner” — a 37-year-old Yemeni who the U.S. profiled as having met Osama b...

Detainee appeals to Pakistani High Court for Help

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On April 14, lawyers for Ahmad Rabbani (aka Mohammed Ahmad Ghulam Rabbani), one of the last few Pakistani prisoners in Guantánamo, “filed an...

Guantánamo torture case appealed to SCOTUS

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And this from the Center for Constitutional Rights: Last Friday, CCR urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review its case seeking compensatio...
Thursday, April 16, 2015

More reviews on Slahi's Guantanamo diary...

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The book has been described as "a vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka." (John Le Carre') And it is being translated in...