Sunday, May 2, 2021

Fitch is back...

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  *   *   * Biden's litigation posture in pending legal proceedings commenced during Trump's term has been much more progressive tha...
Tuesday, April 27, 2021

Any bets on how this will go?

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  WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday agreed to decide whether the government can block a detainee at Guantánamo Bay from obtaining inf...

yes, we should close Guantanamo

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 But send these men that have never been charged with a crime to the U.S.?  NO....Send them home. NOW. read the op-ed from the former envoy...
Wednesday, April 21, 2021

Sorry Bob, but the times are not a changin just yet...

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 As per my musical interlude in the last post, staying alive in this country of mine is truly difficult if you are not white. And no amount ...
Thursday, April 15, 2021

musical interlude

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Staying alive in the U.S. of A....difficult if you are black.
Wednesday, April 7, 2021

Once released from Guantanamo --you are never really free

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 The men released from Guantanamo, for the most part, are never really free. They carry the stigma of having been kept at Guantanamo and lab...
Monday, April 5, 2021

CAMP 7 IS NO MORE...

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 Some time in the last 60 days Camp 7 was closed. Camp 7 was the super secret prison at Guantanamo where the so-called "high value...
Monday, March 29, 2021

The first men at Gitmo and where they are now...

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 As Carol Rosenberg notes -- the first 20 men were called "the worst of the worst..." 18 of them were released long ago and of the...
Friday, February 26, 2021

Free Showing of The Mauritanian on March 6th (for the first 300 to rsvp)

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  Code Pink and World Can't Wait are doing a joint showing of the movie on March 6. The first 300 to RSVP will get to see the film free-...
Thursday, February 18, 2021

The Mauritanian...

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 I guess the movie is coming out soon. And yes, maybe it will rekindle interest in closing the place but please remember that it was the Oba...
Tuesday, February 16, 2021

It is a step forward anyway...

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 O n Friday (Feb. 12), White House press secretary Jen Psaki, when asked whether President Biden will close Guantánamo by the end of his pre...
Friday, February 12, 2021

Musical Interlude

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 It has been a while since I have done one of these but what better time? And so I dedicate this to the  criminal trump team as they start t...
Tuesday, February 2, 2021

From Roger Fitch and our friends down under at Justinian...

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 It seemed to some a redneck revival, a white trash liberation movement with a Confederate battle flag as standard and MAGA hats as the unit...
Sunday, January 31, 2021

An Open Letter to Biden from former detainees at Guantanamo

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 I joined with several attorneys to write a letter to Biden about Guantanamo last week and I hope next week to have a link to that letter. B...
Wednesday, January 20, 2021

And Biden's first moves...

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 offering a glimpse of hope to the men at Guantanamo we have learned this today: February: Restoring America’s Place in the World Biden wi...