As Activists Plan Protest for 9th Anniv. of Guantánamo, Former Gitmo...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Well, next week will mark the ninth anniversary of the first transfer of foreign prisoners to the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. Later this month comes another important...
View ArticleNew York Court to Hear Case Against Psychologist Accused of Torture in...
AMY GOODMAN: U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced Monday that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks would be tried by military commissions in Guantánamo, not in U.S. civil court. Holder blamed...
View Article"One Guantanamo Trial That Will Be Held in New York" by Amy Goodman
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan On the same day President Barack Obama formally launched his re-election campaign, his attorney general, Eric Holder, announced that key suspects in the 9/11 attacks...
View ArticleWikiLeaks Documents Reveal U.S. Knowingly Imprisoned 150 Innocent Men at...
AMY GOODMAN: A massive trove of documents obtained by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks have revealed that the U.S. believed many of those held at Guantánamo were innocent or low-level...
View ArticleGuardian Newspaper Editor Defends Publishing WikiLeaks’ Secret Guantánamo Files
AMY GOODMAN: We turn now to the hundreds of Guantánamo prisoner "assessment" files used by the U.S. military, recently released by the whistleblowing website WikiLeaks. The 759 Guantánamo files,...
View ArticleFormer Military Interrogator Matthew Alexander: Despite GOP Claims, "Immoral"...
AMY GOODMAN: The death of Osama bin Laden has sparked a debate over whether torture of suspects held at places like Guantánamo helped track down and kill the al-Qaeda leader. As intelligence officials...
View ArticleSpanish Judge Baltasar Garzón on Holding Torturers Accountable, Why He...
JUAN GONZALEZ: We’re joined now by the Spanish judge Baltasar Garzón, perhaps one of the world’s most famous judges. Citing the doctrine of universal jurisdiction, Garzón has used the Spanish courts to...
View ArticleA Debate on Human Rights Watch's Call for Bush Administration Officials to be...
AMY GOODMAN: Human Rights Watch has released a major new report calling on the U.S. government to launch a broad criminal investigation into alleged crimes of torture committed by former President...
View ArticleFreed U.S. Hiker Shane Bauer: Iranian Guards Cited Guantánamo, CIA Prisons to...
AMY GOODMAN: The U.S. hikers Josh Fattal and Shane Bauer arrived in New York this weekend after being held for more than two years in an Iranian prison. The hikers were released last week, then taken...
View ArticleAlleged Inhumane Conditions for Post-9/11 Suspects Sparks Global Scrutiny of...
JUAN GONZALEZ: Ten years after 9/11, detention policies in the U.S. are facing increasing scrutiny both here and abroad. A terrorism trial set to begin later this month is already attracting...
View ArticleHouse-Senate Revise Indefinite Detention Bill in Bid to Avoid White House...
AMY GOODMAN: The House is expected to vote today on a massive $662 billion defense bill that would usher in a radical expansion of indefinite detention under the U.S. government. A provision in the...
View ArticleObama Prepares to Authorize Indefinite Detention of U.S. Citizens for First...
AMY GOODMAN: Finally, Glenn, I wanted to ask you about a not wholly unrelated issue, and that is the issue of the military authorization bill that President Obama threatened to veto if it continued to...
View ArticleNDAA: Obama Signs Law Restricting Transfer of Guantánamo Prisoners and...
AMY GOODMAN: And very quickly, Michael Ratner, you there—you’re there in London as part of this 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, what you have been fighting for many years here in the...
View ArticleGuantánamo Exclusive: Former Chief Prosecutor, Ex-Prisoner Call on Obama to...
AMY GOODMAN: We continue on this 10th anniversary of the opening of Guantánamo, which falls right around the same date that President Obama vowed to close the prison three years ago. Shortly after...
View ArticleGuantánamo Detainees Launch Hunger Strike to Protest Prison's 10th Anniversary
AMY GOODMAN: Wednesday marks the 10th anniversary of the first imprisonment of foreign detainees at the U.S. military prison at Guantánamo Bay. To mark the date, activists have called for a national...
View Article"Guantanamo at 10: The Prisoner and the Prosecutor." By Amy Goodman
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan. Ten years ago, Omar Deghayes and Morris Davis would have struck anyone as an odd pair. While they have never met, they now share a profound connection, cemented...
View ArticleJournalist Chris Hedges Sues Obama Admin over Indefinite Detention of U.S....
AMY GOODMAN: During Monday night’s debate in South Carolina, Republican candidates sharply disagreed over a new policy to indefinitely detain American citizens. President Obama approved the measure as...
View ArticleJustice Cheated: Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth on Failures of Guantánamo...
AMY GOODMAN: The military tribunal established to prosecute the five leading suspects in the September 11th attacks opened this weekend in Guantánamo. During a nine-hour hearing Saturday, the five...
View ArticleSupreme Court Rejects Gitmo Appeals, Spelling Potential End to Prisoners'...
AMY GOODMAN: On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to take a new look at the rights of prisoners held for the past decade at the U.S. military prison in Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. The court originally...
View ArticleFrom Guantánamo to NDAA: Obama Admin Bids to Preserve Indefinite Detention at...
AMY GOODMAN: We’re broadcasting from Grand Valley State University here in Grand Rapids, Michigan. We’re at the PBS station WGVU, as we turn to Marcy Wheeler, investigative blogger who lives here in...
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