Archive for the 'Guantanamo Bay' Category

Judge Orders 5 Detainees To Be Released

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Law, The War On Terrorism

I still can’t believe we justified holding people indefinitely without access to council or hope for trial. And the following case shows just how egregious that practice was since 4 out of the 5 men ordered released weren’t even “enemy combatants.”
From Wash Post:
For the first time, a federal judge ordered the release yesterday of detainees [...]

November 21st, 2008 | Permalink| 5 Comments »

Obama To Close Gitmo, Hold Different Tribunals

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Barack, Guantanamo Bay, Law

One of the biggest symbols of post 9/11 American hubris is set to vanish.
Good:
WASHINGTON – President-elect Obama’s advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo [...]

November 10th, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

The CIA tortured this cartoon

By donar | Related entries in 9/11, Cartoons, Guantanamo Bay, Political Graffiti, Torture

Usually it’s the cartoonist that is tortured, but the CIA got a hold of my cartoon and it disappeared for awhile.  Thank god it survived and I was able to recover it.  Unfortunately, it doesn’t like to talk much and tends to curl up in the corner of my studio. Wash Post article

June 18th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Guantanamo Decision Not “Worst in History”

By Alan Stewart Carl | Related entries in Constitution, Guantanamo Bay, Law, McCain, Supreme Court, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, War

George Will takes issue with John McCain’s statement that the recent Supreme Court decision on Guantanamo detainees was one of the “worst decisions in history.”
Will’s complaint is as much about McCain’s hyperbole as it is about McCain’s opposition to the ruling. As Will notes, this is not a clear-cut matter and people of good will [...]

June 17th, 2008 | Permalink| No Comments »

McCain: SCOTUS Detainee Decision One Of The Worst In History

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Constitution, Guantanamo Bay, Law, McCain, The War On Terrorism, War

Can you tell it’s an election year?
From Swampland comes this transcript of McCain’s statements during a town hall…
The United States Supreme Court yesterday rendered a decision which I think is one of the worst decisions in the history of this country. Sen. Graham and Sen. Lieberman and I had worked very hard to make sure [...]

June 13th, 2008 | Permalink| 11 Comments »

Supreme Court Rules Detainees Now Have Legal Rights

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Law, Supreme Court, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, War

Big, big news.
The Supreme Court restored habeas rights for enemy combatants, and thereby acknowledged that the “War on Terrorism” has no discernible end and so detainees should be able to challenge indefinite detention.
More from AP:
In its third rebuke of the Bush administration’s treatment of prisoners, the court ruled 5-4 that the government is violating [...]

June 12th, 2008 | Permalink| 8 Comments »

The Yoo Torture Memo

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in 9/11, Bad Decisions, Bush, Cheney, Civil Liberties, Constitution, Ethics, Foreign Policy, Guantanamo Bay, Iraq, Islam, Law, Military, Terrorism, The War On Terrorism, The World, Torture, War

All 70+ pages of it.
Here’s the gist…
In the March 14, 2003 memo, Yoo says the Constitution was not in play with regard to the interrogations because the Fifth Amendment (which provides for due process of law) and the Eighth Amendment (which prevents the government from employing cruel and usual punishment) does “not extend to alien [...]

April 1st, 2008 | Permalink| 1 Comment »

This Is Why We Have Trials

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Law, The War On Terrorism

In a war without end, in a war against a tactic, we can not hold the enemy indefinitely. It’s a ludicrous legal argument and we’ve already captured and released a ton of people because we figured out they weren’t terrorists. Some of them weren’t even close. And now we’re seeing even more blood on our [...]

February 5th, 2008 | Permalink| 2 Comments »

Gitmo Manual Surfaces

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in Guantanamo Bay, Military, The War On Terrorism

This is interesting. Wired runs a story about a pdf manual of procedures (link downloads PDF file) the folks at Guantanamo Bay used when processing and dealing with detainees.
From Wired:
The 238-page document, “Camp Delta Standard Operating Procedures,” is dated March 28, 2003. It is unclassified, but designated “For Official Use Only.” It hit the web [...]

November 14th, 2007 | Permalink| 6 Comments »