OMNI GUANTANAMO Guantanamo : Another Harm of the War on Terror and the US
REMEMBER GUANTANAMO
JANUARY 11, 2001: Guantanamo
January 22, 2011 Guantanamo
Contents
Film
Books
Transferring Prisoners for Trial
CCR Close Guantanamo
Return Guantanamo to Cuba
No End Soon
Investigative Reporters: Andy Worthington, Carol Rosenberg
Chinese Torture Techniques
Prisoners
Violation of Due Process
Wendell Griffin on Habeas Corpus
FILM
Andy Worthington. Outside the Law: Stories from Guantanamo
BOOKS
--Kurnaz, Murat. Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo
--Mayer, Jane. The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How the War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. Doubleday, 2008.
--Andy Worthington, The Guantanamo
Obama Blasts Congress' Limits on Guantanamo
Warren Richey, The Christian Science Monitor
Warren Richey reports: "President Obama strongly objected on Friday to provisions of the 2011 Defense Authorization Act that prevent the military from transferring Guantanamo detainees to the US
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César Chelala: “Don't Just Close Guantánamo, Return It”
http://act.commondreams.org/go/3877?akid=333.126591.LcxV3o&t=28
GROSS VIOLATION OF DUE PROCESS
Los Angeles Time, “The Guantanamo
Intro: "Detaining these prisoners indefinitely and without trial goes against American notions of due process."
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REMEMBER WHAT IS DUE PROCESS
Mark Krause, accused of leaving a homemade bomb at a polling place in Carroll County , Arkansas
1) asked by the judge the standard questions (level of education, etc.) to determine whether he was able to understand the proceedings;
2) appointed a federal public defender;
3) granted a probable-cause and detention hearing;
4) had his charges reviewed, requiring the government to show it has enough evidence.
None of this was done at Guantanamo
White House: No End Soon for Guantanamo
Agence France-Presse reports: "The White House admitted Sunday it would be unable to shut Guantanamo Bay in the near future, even as it acknowledged the US
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ANDY WORTHINGTON ON OBAMA FAILURE TO CLOSE GUANTANAMO
From Democracy Now in Dec. 2009
Amy Goodman interviewed Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Worthington
REPORTER CAROL ROSENBERG
Glenn, David. “The Record Keeper: Carol Rosenberg Owns the Guantanamo Miami Herald, is the most persistent critic of “the way the military runs things at Guantanamo
U.S. military based Gitmo training on tactics China used in Korean War - USA Today
A training course at Gitmo was modeled on tactics that Chinese forces used to interrogate American prisoners during the Korean War, according to The New York Times.
The paper reports that interrogation trainers used a chart with "coercive management techniques" that were "copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners."
A training course at Gitmo was modeled on tactics that Chinese forces used to interrogate American prisoners during the Korean War, according to The New York Times.
The paper reports that interrogation trainers used a chart with "coercive management techniques" that were "copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners."
To read more: http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/07/report-us-milit.html (from Richard D)
PRISONERS
Scott Horton, “The Guantánamo ‘Suicides’: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle,” Harper’s Magazine (Jan/Feb 2010). See: DN 1-19-10 Gitmo in 2006: 3 prisoners murdered, G. commander claimed suicide, gov’t /CIA covered up…….
MOHAMMED JAWAD
TMN (7-31-09), “Judge Orders Detainee’s Release.” The youngest detainee, tortured into confessing to crimes, imprisoned at G. six and a half years.without charge or trial.
JOHN WALKER LINDH
Democracy Now interv. his parents Frank Lindh and Marilyn Walker 7-31-09.
MOAZZAM BEG
Released from G. See Guantanamo Justice Center
LETTER FROM JUDGE WENDELL GRIFFEN
The ruling yesterday by the Supreme Court that GuantanamoBay detainees may challenge the legality of their detention in U.S.
For years since the 9-11-01 terrorist killings inNew York , Pennsylvania , and Washington , the Bush administration has asserted an absolute and unchallengeable right to sweep people it terms "enemy combatants" into U.S. custody and hold them at Guantanamo
The administration could have chosen to prosecute Hamdan and other detainees in federal court. It did not. It could have chosen to prosecute Hamdan and other detainees before courts-martial under the UCMJ, which would have also meant the detainees would have enjoyed procedural rights designed to provide fair trials (including the right to challenge coerced confessions, learn about coercive interrogations, identify exculpatory evidence beneficial to the detainees, have specific notice of the evidence upon which the enemy combatant designation was made, challenge hearsay evidence, and appeal adverse rulings in the federal court system. Again, it did not.
Rather, on the eave of the fall 2006 mid-term congressional elections, the Bush administration introduced, Congress enacted, and President Bush signed into law S. 3930, the Military Commisions Act of 2006, which denies federal courts jurisdiction over habeas corpus applications filed by "unlawful enemy combatants." Democrats opposed that legislation, and were especially vehement in denouncing its habeas-stripping aspects. Republican Senator Arlen Spector ofPennsylvania
The federal court challenges to the MCA byGuantanamo
The commentators thus far have not mentioned--perhaps because they have not studied the MCA--that the Court's ruling has far-reaching implications for the upcoming presidential elections as well as the constitutional legacy of the Bush administration. After the MCA was enacted, President Bush linked that legislation with "a CIA program [under which] ... suspected terrorists have been detained and questioned about threats against our country." In doing so, President Bush suggested that the CIA program, which included coercive interrogation tactics, helped result in detainees being designated enemy combatants by the Defense Department. Thus, it is more than slightly ironic that Senator McCain, who was tortured while a prisoner of war during theVietnam conflict, voted to enact legislation sponsored by the Bush administration that sought to prevent Guantanamo
Senator McCain, like President Bush, criticized the Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on yesterday. Senator McCain, like President Bush, supported the legislation which the Court struck down as unconstitutional. It remains to be seen whether political commentators will inform the American public about their common tie to the Military Commissions Act and the CIA coercive interrogation process that the MCA was intended to shield from judicial purview.
For years since the 9-11-01 terrorist killings in
The administration could have chosen to prosecute Hamdan and other detainees in federal court. It did not. It could have chosen to prosecute Hamdan and other detainees before courts-martial under the UCMJ, which would have also meant the detainees would have enjoyed procedural rights designed to provide fair trials (including the right to challenge coerced confessions, learn about coercive interrogations, identify exculpatory evidence beneficial to the detainees, have specific notice of the evidence upon which the enemy combatant designation was made, challenge hearsay evidence, and appeal adverse rulings in the federal court system. Again, it did not.
Rather, on the eave of the fall 2006 mid-term congressional elections, the Bush administration introduced, Congress enacted, and President Bush signed into law S. 3930, the Military Commisions Act of 2006, which denies federal courts jurisdiction over habeas corpus applications filed by "unlawful enemy combatants." Democrats opposed that legislation, and were especially vehement in denouncing its habeas-stripping aspects. Republican Senator Arlen Spector of
The federal court challenges to the MCA by
The commentators thus far have not mentioned--perhaps because they have not studied the MCA--that the Court's ruling has far-reaching implications for the upcoming presidential elections as well as the constitutional legacy of the Bush administration. After the MCA was enacted, President Bush linked that legislation with "a CIA program [under which] ... suspected terrorists have been detained and questioned about threats against our country." In doing so, President Bush suggested that the CIA program, which included coercive interrogation tactics, helped result in detainees being designated enemy combatants by the Defense Department. Thus, it is more than slightly ironic that Senator McCain, who was tortured while a prisoner of war during the
Senator McCain, like President Bush, criticized the Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush on yesterday. Senator McCain, like President Bush, supported the legislation which the Court struck down as unconstitutional. It remains to be seen whether political commentators will inform the American public about their common tie to the Military Commissions Act and the CIA coercive interrogation process that the MCA was intended to shield from judicial purview.
Finally, yesterday's ruling is a vindication for me on a personal level. In October 2006, after the Hamdan ruling and after enactment of the MCA, I wrote an op-ed piece titled "Frustrated Presidents" that Max Brantley was kind enough to publish in the Arkansas Times. In that piece, I argued that John Yoo was both historically and fundamentally wrong in contending that the Bush Administration's aspiration for unilateral power was consistent with American democracy. My op-ed column became part of the charges I was forced to defend before the Judicial Discipline and Disability Commission. The charges were dismissed after the JDDC finally decided to follow U.S. Supreme Court and other federal rulings on the First Amendment rights of judges to speak about disputed political and legal issues not pending before them.
As I approach the end of my service on the Arkansas Court of Appeals, I take special pleasure in seeing the Supreme Court remind the Bush administration and reassure the rest of our nation and the world that the highest and first obligation of every public official, including the President of the United States, is to support and defend the Constitution. As Justice Kennedy indicated in his majority opinion in Boumediene, if the government will not or cannot do that, none of us are safe from tyrannical government. In the first instance, it is the business of the executive branch to ensure that government does not conduct itself in tyrannical ways. In the last instance, it is always the solemn and noble job of courts and judges to entertain and decide the merits of allegations of such executive misconduct, even when the allegations are made by non-citizens who have been detained outside the territorial borders of the United States in what appears to have been a deliberate effort to deny them access to due process of law.
I predict that the Bush administration will be remembered as the most disrespectful toward due process and the rule of law in modernU.S.
As I approach the end of my service on the Arkansas Court of Appeals, I take special pleasure in seeing the Supreme Court remind the Bush administration and reassure the rest of our nation and the world that the highest and first obligation of every public official, including the President of the United States, is to support and defend the Constitution. As Justice Kennedy indicated in his majority opinion in Boumediene, if the government will not or cannot do that, none of us are safe from tyrannical government. In the first instance, it is the business of the executive branch to ensure that government does not conduct itself in tyrannical ways. In the last instance, it is always the solemn and noble job of courts and judges to entertain and decide the merits of allegations of such executive misconduct, even when the allegations are made by non-citizens who have been detained outside the territorial borders of the United States in what appears to have been a deliberate effort to deny them access to due process of law.
I predict that the Bush administration will be remembered as the most disrespectful toward due process and the rule of law in modern
http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/2008/06/judge_griffens_plans.aspx
End This Shame in America
This sort of thing should be shouted from the rooftops, and those responsible chased from public life. But instead we’ll have the grinning loons on cable news and talk radio telling us why it’s okay.
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