In Gitmo Opinion, Two Versions of Reality
Update April 25, 2011: On Sunday night, a number of news outlets and WikiLeaks published a trove of classified documents on detainees at Guantanamo Bay. ProPublica has been reporting on Gitmo and the issues surrounding indefinite detention for more than two years. In October 2010, Dafna Linzer revealed how the Obama administration censored one federal judge's Gitmo decision that had questioned the government's evidence against a detainee.
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- Detainee Assessment: Uthman al-Rahim
- Justice Department Report on Waterboarding Memos, July 29, 2009
- John Yoo's Response to the 2009 Justice Dept. Report on Waterboarding Memos, Oct. 9, 2009
- Jay Bybee's Response to the 2009 Justice Dept. Report on Waterboarding Memos, Oct. 9, 2009
- Testimony by Attorney General Eric Holder (PDF), before the Senate Judiciary Committee, June 17, 2009
- Remarks on National Security, by President Barack Obama, on May 21, 2009
- Executive Order: Closure Of Guantanamo Detention Facilities, by President Barack Obama, Jan. 22, 2009
- Executive Order: Review of Detention Policy Options, by President Barack Obama, Jan. 22, 2009
- Combatant Status Review Tribunals/Administrative Review Boards, Department of Defense
- Summary of the High Value Terrorist Detainee Program (PDF), Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Sept. 6, 2006
- Biographies of High Value Detainees (PDF), Department of Defense
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For anyone wondering how one of President Obama’s signature pledges seemed to unravel between Monday and Friday, here’s a look at the week that was.
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Nearly a year after taking office, the Obama administration isn’t as close to closing the prison at Guantanamo as it had hoped it would be by now.
Judge Who Ordered Release of Uighurs Rules for Another Gitmo Detainee
Saeed Hatim, a Yemeni citizen held at Guantanamo for seven years, should be freed, Judge Ricardo Urbina rules.
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Gibbs said more detainees have been transferred in the last eight months than in the previous eight years. But he's wrong.
Happy Birthday, Gitmo
Today marks the eighth anniversary of the creation of the legal foundation for the prison and the second-tier justice system established to try terrorism suspects there.
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