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The Feds Defend Their Tortures Again Sep. 04, 2025
While the public's attention this summer has been drawn to masked ICE agents arresting folks without... Read More
No Due Process at Gitmo Jul. 17, 2025
Last week, a federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., invalidated a plea agreement for Khalid Shei... Read More
Killing the Constitution at Gitmo Jan. 09, 2025
When British kings wanted to dispose of troublesome enemies — real or imagined — they of... Read More
Gitmo Continues to Haunt Nov. 14, 2024
Here's a pop quiz: When can an Army colonel overrule the Secretary of Defense? It happened last week... Read More
Deal or No Deal? Oct. 03, 2024
"Oh, what a tangled web we weave When first we practice to deceive." —Sir Walter Scott (1771-1... Read More
Gitmo and Politics Sep. 19, 2024
It is always dangerous to human freedom and due process when politics interferes with criminal prose... Read More
Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the Problem of Torture Aug. 08, 2024
In the months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestrating them on... Read More
The Torturers' Poor Memories Feb. 29, 2024
As the pre-trial hearings in the case of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and others who are charged with mast... Read More
Guantanamo: A Constitutional Debacle Oct. 12, 2023
When President George W. Bush formulated the concept of an American Devil's Island in Cuba, he did s... Read More
Torture Comes Home to Roost Aug. 24, 2023
"Maybe there is a beast. Maybe it's only us." — William Golding (1911-1993), "Lord of the Flie... Read More
State Secrets Undermine Due Process Jun. 08, 2023
In a public courtroom of the United States of America, in which a high-level criminal case is being ... Read More
Ron DeSantis, Torturer and Future President May. 26, 2023
Hello. I'm Ron DeSantis and I approve of the following message. As you may have heard, I'm running f... Read More
America's Bizarro Take On Guantanamo: Punish the Victims, Reward the Criminals May. 05, 2023
A country that loudly and repeatedly expresses what it purports to be its principles, yet cavalierly... Read More
Enemies of All Mankind Mar. 02, 2023
Last week in a federal courtroom at the U.S. Naval Base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, an American physici... Read More
The Legacy of George W. Bush and His Torturers Feb. 02, 2023
In the days and months following the attacks of 9/11, the government laid the blame for orchestratin... Read More
Forever Prisoners Jun. 30, 2022
"I hold it that a little rebellion now and then is a good thing, and as necessary in the political w... Read More
Bloody Gina and Her Team of Torturers Jun. 09, 2022
Last week, at a pretrial hearing at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base in Cuba for Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a... Read More
Bush and His Torturers Mar. 31, 2022
Last week, prosecutors and defense counsel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, completed three weeks of plea ne... Read More
The Torturers' Apprentice Mar. 10, 2022
Last week, a bitterly divided Supreme Court dismissed a case brought by a detainee at the U.S. Naval... Read More
Military Torturers at Guantanamo Bay Feb. 24, 2022
After a jury in 2006 declined to impose the death penalty on Zacarias Moussaoui, who had just pleade... Read More
