Andrew Sullivan raises a great point by asking that very question. The right is in a frenzy over the article I posted earlier about the released Gitmo detainee that was involved in the U.S. embassy attack in Yemen. What they are trying to do is create a strawman here. If our prisons are so at […]
This is how the Bush administration thinks of America. They believe no American has the right to freedom anymore. U.S. citizens suspected of terror ties might be detained indefinitely and barred from access to civilian courts under legislation proposed by the Bush administration, say legal experts reviewing an early version of the bill. A 32-page […]
Emptywheel has a very interesting post up: On June 29, SCOTUS ruled that even enemy combatants must be treated according to the Geneva Convention. On July 13, Christine Axsmith posted this on her blog on the CIA’s confidential intranet, Intelink. Read on to find out what happened to Christine.
This was the big ruling everyone was waiting on and Bush suffered a big blow on it: The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Bush administration did not have the legal authority to go forward with military tribunals for detainees at the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. The 5-3 ruling means officials […]
This has just been shown on the BBC News website. the names will be relesed…but guess what, you got to find them within a 6000 page document! The US defence department has said it will release the names of inmates detained at its Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba later on Friday. However, the names will […]