Austin Powers arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, has transformed into a real life character named Julian Assange, the founder of Wikileaks. First off, here’s a look at the datacenter for Wikileaks. Steel and glass doors frame its entrance, which is carved into the hard rock of Vita Bergen – The White Mountains – in the centre […]
Moving the few hundred remaining prisoners at Guantanamo should be something conservatives rally behind. The reason for this is in the numbers: A Bureau of Prisons spokesman on Monday revised upwards the cost of housing a captive in federal detention, days after the bureau said it spends a tiny fraction of what the military spends […]
This is one that I didn’t see coming: Three prominent conservatives warned in a joint statement against Republican “scaremongering” on Guantanamo Bay detainees, saying the prison in Thomson, Illinois would be fine to handle them. Former Republican Congressman and Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, David Keene, chairman of the American Conservative Union and Grover Norquist, […]
The talk today will be this: The emergence of a former Guantánamo Bay detainee as the deputy leader of Al Qaeda’s Yemeni branch has underscored the potential complications in carrying out the executive order President Obama signed Thursday that the detention center be shut down within a year. The militant, Said Ali al-Shihri, is suspected […]
Last night President (shiver) Obama ordered the prosecutors at Gitmo to halt all cases for 120 days. Most likely this is so he can figure out what to do with the inmates and finally close down the black eye of the beacon of freedom. One of the big arguments about Obama closing down Gitmo is […]
This is a Bush administration official with direct knowledge admitting that we torture detainees: The top Bush administration official in charge of deciding whether to bring Guantanamo Bay detainees to trial has concluded that the U.S. military tortured a Saudi national who allegedly planned to participate in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, interrogating him with […]
Sounds kind of convenient: The US military has lost a year’s worth of records describing the Guantanamo confinement of Osama bin Laden’s driver, a prosecutor said at the Yemeni captive’s war court hearing. Lawyers for the driver, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, asked for the records to support their argument that prolonged isolation and harassment at the […]
Since they don’t have the enjoyment of watching past episodes of “Waterboarding with Mousawi”, I guess they had to find new ways to pass the time down there: The US detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has been caught conducting covert propaganda attacks on the internet. The attacks, exposed this week in a report by the […]
Remember the protests that broke out in Afghanistan after it was revealed that an interrogator at Gitmo allegedly desecrated the Koran? The right and the administration quickly blamed the media for the protests and violence that followed the story and said it was false. Well now the FBI is citing similar cases: FBI agents at […]