Al-Ghizzawi's Personal War Criminal, Matthew Waxman, Tries to Hide

Seems that Professor Matthew Waxman, Mr. Al-Ghizzawi's personal war criminal, the man who decided that Guantanamo prisoners who were found not to be enemy combatants back in 2004 during their Combat Status Review Tribunals (CSRTs) and who should have their CSRTs redone by different tribunals (the rubber stamp tribunals) is now suggesting an interesting conspiracy theory... Waxman has told people not to believe that the emails from him....were really from him.

Nice try Matt but we all know you are the one responsible for implementing the redos...you can run but you can't hide...and we will not forget.

Mr. Al-Ghizzawi has spent an additional five years (and still counting) at Guantanamo because of you.

At least thirty eight other men have had similar fates.

Mr. Al-Ghizzawi and the others have had to live with your arrogance and idiocy for all these years...the least you can do is own up to it....maybe even apologize.

Why is the possible murder at Gitmo a non-story?

Click on the title to read Dahlia Lithwicks's take on this important story.

And in honor of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birthday this week ask yourself if this is still true:

"It may be true that the law cannot make a man love me, but it can keep him from lynching me, and I think that's pretty important."
Martin Luther King, Jr.

GUANTANAMO: THE DEATH CAMP

Andy Worthington has more to say about Scott Horton's bombshell story of the deaths of the three Guantanamo prisoners back in 2006. Click here for Andy's take on this chilling account.

Click here for a look at Horton's report from invictus.

Of course the big question is whether the U.S. as a nation will once again close its collective eyes about possible U.S. war crimes.

Will this report be given an independent investigation? Or shoved under the rug?

SEEK THE TRUTH.....

AND THE TRUTH WILL SET SOME OF US FREE....AND HOPEFULLY BE USED TO PUT OTHERS BEHIND BARS.

Many thanks to Army Staff Sergeant Joseph Hickman, Specialist Tony Davila, Army Specialist Christopher Penvose and Army specialist, David Caroll.

CLICK ON THE TITLE TO READ THIS IMPORTANT WHISTLE BLOWER ACCOUNT FROM HARPER'S SCOTT HORTON.

This used to be a judicial function.....

Read more about how Obama's Guantanamo's Task Force has replaced the judiciary by clicking on the title.... and yes, the Judges have gladly turned this function over to them.

Interview with Saudi Detainee accused of helping underwear bomber

In the hysteria surrounding the Christmas bomb attempt aboard the plane landing in Detroit a former detainee from Guantanamo was accused by ABC of aiding the alleged attempted bomber. Only problem was....he had turned himself in to the custody of the Saudi's after being coerced into doing an Al-Qaeda video early last year and had nothing to do with the failed attack aboard the plane. But clearly this former detaine still suffers from psychological problems related to his torture at the hands of the US .Click on the title to hear this mans account of how he was treated by American's at Bagram and Guantanamo.... and if you are an American, ask yourself what could we be doing to stop the hate against us?

EIGHT YEARS LATER AND WE ARE STILL COUNTING....

CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR MY LATEST ARTICLE ON MICHAEL MOORE'S WEB PAGE.

New Campaign by Human Rights First re: Gitmo

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NYTs Corrects Itself Again....sort of.

The New York Times has "corrected" the headlines of its repeat story but not the story itself. In an email exchange I had with the public editor yesterday he told me that the NYT stands by the story itself because "The article also pointed out, independently, that the report said 74 former prisoners had engaged in terrorism or militant activity, or were suspected of it, but only 29 were identified – a strong caution for careful readers." Mr. Hoyt also thought the story was more responsible because it wasn't on the front page...sigh.

In a return email I pointed out to Mr. Hoyt that I did not believe that " newspaper articles should be “tricks” that if people read “carefully” they will see the pitfalls.... When the Pentagon makes a report the news reporters job is not to parrot the story but to investigate."

CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR MORE.

And when all else fails.....

Keep your sense of humor.

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The Sins of Guantanamo: We're keeping detainees in the camp because we're afraid of things they haven't done yet?

Click on the title to read Dahlia Lithwick's insightful piece on the dangerous paranoia plaguing Guantanamo that has resulted in the continued detention of innocent men.

Attorney Cori Crider writes of her Yemeni client at Gitmo

New York Times re-runs retracted story from last year....

They were called on this garbage last year when they claimed that 1 in 7 Gitmo prisoners who were released "returned to terrorism" and they ended up having to retract the story. Maybe they thought no one would notice if they re-ran the garbage again this year....well Shane did.

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And if this makes you as angry as it made me, let the New York Times know:

public@nytimes.com

Here is what I had to say to them:

"I really cannot believe you are running a remake of last year’s fake story on the supposed recidivism rate of the Gitmo prisoners. In fact, if you read through the story it is clear that the NYT is hiding the fact that there really is no story here (administration denies that they have seen any hard evidence to support the numbers.) Who has seen that hard evidence? Perhaps Dick “I will make up anything I need to justify what I did” Cheney?

Decent newspapers are a rarity these days and it seems to me that the NYT is hanging by a thread."

Best regards,

Candace

The Cook Must Stay Detained Forever

Yikes.... keeping with its reputation of being the most right wing Circuit in the country the DC Circuit has just made a sweeping ruling that basically gives carte blanche to the military to hold the men at Guantanamo forever.....

Click on the title to read the decision.

Click here to read a summary analysis from ScotUS.

The definitive list of Gitmo prisoners...thanks to Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington just updated his definitive Guantanamo

prisoner list (first published last March), which provides information and links about all 779 prisoners:

http://tinyurl.com/ykckztm