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Ghailani Sentence Proves Federal Courts Work, Reveals Extent Of Republican...

Ahmed Ghailani For those of us seeking a grown-up debate about Guantánamo in the two years since President Obama came into office, the most troubling development has been the retrenchment of Republican...

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The Indictment For Torture Filed Against George W. Bush (Part One: The Facts)

Just two weeks ago, as former US President George W. Bush was preparing to make his first visit to Europe since the publication, last November, of his biography Decision Points, the Center for...

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New Grand Jury Investigation On Torture, Or DOJ Smokescreen?

News certainly travels fast, sometimes. While it took the U.S. government two years to reply to a request by a Spanish judge regarding whether or not the U.S. has instigated any investigations or...

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With Osama bin Laden’s Death, The Time For US Vengeance Is Over

Osama bin Laden as he is interviewed by Hamid Mir for Daily Pakistan in 1997; behind him on the wall is an AK-74 carbine. Photo/Wikimedia Just four months before the tenth anniversary of the 9/11...

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The Death Of Osama bin Laden And The Unjustifiable Defense Of Torture,...

Still image taken from the Amnesty International film Stuff Of Life, a film about waterboarding, the practice of torturing prisoners by partially drowning them With the reported assassination of Osama...

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Ten Years After 9/11, America Deserves Better than Dick Cheney’s Self-Serving...

On August 30, when In My Time, former Vice President Dick Cheney’s self-serving autobiography was published, the timing was pernicious. Cheney knows by now that every time he opens his mouth to endorse...

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Guantanamo: Military Commissions And The Illusion Of Justice

When something is irredeemably broken, the sensible course of action is to get rid of it. However, when it comes to military trials for terror suspects in the Bush administration’s “war on terror,”...

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Torture: The Bush Administration on Trial

Jose Rodriguez, former Director of the CIA's National Clandestine Service Law-abiding US citizens have been appalled that Jose Rodriguez, the director of the CIA’s National Clandestine Service until...

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Chaos At Guantanamo

This image of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was taken in July 2009 under an agreement with Guantanamo prison camp staff that lets Red Cross delegates photograph detainees and send photos to family members....

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US Government Turns Down Request For Trial By Guantánamo Prisoner And CIA...

This picture of Abu Zubaydah was included in his classified Guantanamo Detainee Assessment Brief released last month by WikiLeaks. Lawyers for Abu Zubaydah, an alleged “high-value detainee” in the “war...

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