CHICAGO TRIBUNE SUNDAY MAGAZINE

The Chicago Tribune ran its cover story today on the Chicago attorneys who are involved in the Guantanamo litigation. Tribune reporter Tom Hundley actually tracked me down in The Hague to look at the issues that I have confronted.
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what is going on??

while I am back at the secret place and spending too much time looking at total bullshit let me give you a few things to read...
start with the homicides

move your way on to pruning shears

and if Andy Worthington is not on your regular list to check, go now....

and last but not least do not forget our friend the talking dog....

as for me.... I am back to the secret place so I can continue to beat my head against the wall.

Another Habeas Win

Today Judge Kessler granted the Habeas Petition by ALI AHMED. The hearing was two weeks ago and the unclassified opinion should be available by the end of the week.

Docket Text:
ORDER: For the reasons stated in this Court's Classified Memorandum Opinion, Petitioner Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed's Petition for a Writ of Habeas Corpus is hereby GRANTED; the Government shall take all necessary and appropriate diplomatic steps to facilitate Petitioner's release forthwith and shall report back to the Court no later than June 15, 2009, as to the status of Petitioner's release. Signed by Judge Gladys Kessler on 5/5/09. (CL, )

Add this to the torture techniques...

According to a recently declassified Justice Department document, the CIA believed that so-called “enhanced interrogation” techniques like sleep deprivation worked better when a detainee’s resistance was weakened from hunger. The agency, with the legal approval of the Justice Department, employed a regimen that sharply restricted the caloric intake of detainees in its custody — an intake distinctly below federal nutritional guidelines for inmates in U.S. prisons.
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SAY IT'S NOT SO....

According to the NY Times the Obama regime is considering starting up the military commissions again... PLEASE MAKE NOISE ABOUT THIS....

"Our Nation Unhinged"

A month or so ago I gave you a heads up about a new book that was coming out "Our Nation Unhinged" by Peter Jan Honigsberg. The book is now out and you can click on the title to find out more about the book and to find out how to order it.
As an aside, I met Peter on one of my (too) many trips to Guantanamo. We struck up a conversation and when parting from the base we exchanged email addresses. That was back in 07. Peter was very interested in the saga of Al-Ghizzawi and contacted me for updates occasionally. In the book he covers some of those issues. My picture also made it into the book!
The book does an excellent job of trying to explain the legal side of the Guantanamo cases in a way that is understandable. It is an easy read and once I picked it up I was glued to the book. I highly recommend it.

A friend in Detainee Affairs?

After the likes of Matthew Waxman, Cully Stimson and Sandra Hodgkinson could it be that we are finally getting a friend in the new appointment to the position of Ass't Secy of Defense for Detainee Affairs.? Looks that way to me. Click on the title for more.

Spain is back...

I have been spending my days at the secret place and just came up for air long enough to read this good news.
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Well I am laying blame.... updated...

Just back from another trip to our hell hole ...so let me just say one thing... if we do not bring these war criminals to justice then we should just stop using the word (justice) in this country....
a few articles worth reading:
start here
then head over here...
and don't forget this...
and this
this too...
and what about this
there are more... and I have added some and check out this new (to me) website.
and this interview via the talking dog.

New Report on the treatment of detainees

Is the Tide Turning?

Seems maybe Obama is getting the message.

From Roger Fitch and our Friends down under.

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Torture Memos Part II

Ok, I have a confession. I still have not read this latest group of documents. The stuff I am reading in my two cases right now is more than enough to make me ill and pissed off.... I will save these new memos for some time in the future. But several of you have emailed and asked me to comment on these latest documents so I will point you to the talking dog and Scott Horton. Coincidentally they share a certain theme. I reread Kafka's The Trial after watching the inaction of our courts in these cases a few years back, and I discovered that the Gitmo litigation was more Kafka than Kafka. I guess now it is time to reread 1984.

Newest Torture Memos

I won't have time to really read these until the weekend.... but click on the title and get started.

Bush 6 to be indicted