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• Sessions Opens DHS Oversight Hearing With Jab at Holder for 9/11 Trials

  
  The Washington Independent Blog — Authority: 154
  Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) just opened this morning’s  hearing that’s supposed to be about oversight of the Department of Homeland Security with a quick jab at Attorney General Eric Holder for his decision to bring Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other alleged terrorists to the ...
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• Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job For Criticizing Military Commissions by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk8 December 2009So much for the First Amendment. Morris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo from September 2005 until his resignation in October 2007, has just lost ...
  22 hours ago

• Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job For Criticizing Military Commissions

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 556
  So much for the First Amendment. Morris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo from September 2005 until his resignation in October 2007, has just lost his job at the Congressional Research Service (a branch of the Library of Congress) for ...
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• 116 Guantánamo Prisoners Cleared For Release; 171 Still In Limbo

  
  freedetainees.org — Authority: 132
  By Andy Worthington In the first detailed announcement about prisoners cleared for release from Guantánamo since September 28, when a military spokesman announced that a list of 78 cleared prisoners had been posted in the prison, defense secretary Robert Gates told a Senate hearing last Thursday that officials ...
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• Thomson Detainee Plan Inches Forward

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Washington Post’s Peter Slevin and Peter Finn report that it is likely the Obama administration will turn Thomson Correctional Center in Thomson, Illinois into a federal prison by “late winter,” enabling the housing of Guantanamo detainees. As my piece this weekend reported , the once hysterical ...
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• Govt Official Fired For Writing Critical Op-Eds About Gitmo Military Commissions

  
  The Public Record — Authority: 133
  Photo/Wikimedia The ACLU sent a letter [Friday] to the Library of Congress and the Congressional Research Service (CRS) on behalf of Col. Morris Davis, the former chief prosecutor for the Guantánamo military commissions, who was terminated from his job at CRS because of opinion pieces he wrote about the ...
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• Military Commission’s Really The Only Way To Go In Prosecuting Bin Laden’s Drivers

  
  Understanding Government — Authority: 437
  The Washington Post’s Peter Finn reports that “60 to 70 detainees could be prosecuted in military commissions, but that some of those cases will go to federal court and some, in the end, may not go to trial at all. The administration is expected to make a series of announcements in coming weeks about which ...
  5 days ago

• VIDEO: The Human Cost of Guantanamo

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 681
  By GottaLaff Please watch this video. Please. It says so much in 13 minutes. Andy Worthington has spent the past several years exposing the stories of the hundreds of men who were taken to Guantanamo prison. The British journalist, who is also a contributing reporter to Truthout, produced a groundbreaking ...
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• Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk1 December 2009Last week, lawyer, ex-Army Captain and Iraq veteran Phillip Carter, described by Glenn Greenwald as “a very harsh critic of the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies,” suddenly resigned his post as ...
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• Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship

  
  Andy Worthington — Authority: 556
  Last week, lawyer, ex-Army Captain and Iraq veteran Phillip Carter, described by Glenn Greenwald as “a very harsh critic of the Bush administration’s detention and interrogation policies,” suddenly resigned his post as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Detainee Policy, which he had occupied since ...
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• Mukhtar’s Memorial Mission; together, we will stop KSM’s next attack upon America

  
  9/11 Families for a Safe & Strong America — Authority: 124
  “KSM describes a grandiose original plan … KSM himself was to land the tenth plane at a U.S. airport and, after killing all adult male passengers on board and alerting the media, deliver a speech excoriating U.S. support for Israel, the Philippines, and repressive governments in the Arab world. Beyond KSM’s ...
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• Cole Attack Trial Will Test Tribunal System

  
  NewsHunter.org — Authority: 163
  The decision to use a military commission to prosecute Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri, a suspect in the bombing of the destroyer, instead of a civilian court has set off a debate.
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• Trial Without Major Witness Will Test Tribunal System

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Investigators examined the Navy destroyer Cole after it was attacked by two Qaeda suicide bombers on the southern coast of Yemen on Oct. 12, 2000.
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• The case against military tribunals

  
  The Political Carnival — Authority: 681
  By GottaLaff After many, many conversations with Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, who represents Gitmo prisoner Fayiz al-Kandari, I have had my eyes opened about military commissions (tribunals) and their system of in justice. Hearsay is allowed. Testimony derived from torture is accepted. Access to evidence is denied ...
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• And Obama’s Words, Tripping Him Up.

  
  American Elephants — Authority: 138
  Obama demands military trial for KSMBut that was then and this is now.  Do they not understand the dangers and the consequences, or do they just not care?(h/t: Breitbart.com)
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• UK Judges Compare Binyam Mohamed’s Torture To That Of Abu Zubaydah by Andy Worthington

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  by Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk26 November 2009Binyam Mohamed is a British resident, seized in Pakistan in April 2002, who was held in Pakistani custody, supervised by US agents, until July 2002, when he was sent by the CIA to be tortured for 18 months in Morocco, and was ...
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• Andy Worthington on Antiwar Radio and ABC: Gitmo, Torture, Trials and his new film

  
  Dandelion Salad — Authority: 492
  Scott HortonAntiwar Radiowith Andy WorthingtonFeatured WriterDandelion Saladwww.andyworthington.co.uk25 November 2009Andy Worthington, author of The Guantanamo Files, discusses Obama’s broken promise to close Gitmo within a year, the enthusiastic U.S. embrace of rendition and torture after 9/11, the extralegal ...
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• DoD Announces Military Commissions Actions

  
  The Republican Temple — Authority: 489
  Today, prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions announced they intend to ask the convening authority to refer new charges under the recently-enacted Military Commissions Act of 2009 against Ahmed Mohammed Ahmed Haza al Darbi, in connection with his alleged involvement in an al Qaeda conspiracy to attack ...
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• Odds and ends for 11/25

  
  Blog on the Run: Reloaded — Authority: 434
  Roots: Here’s one good reason not to go looking for your birth parents. Coincidence?: On Tuesday, Obama’s top Pentagon official for detainee affairs, who had long and publicly opposed military commissions for terrorism suspects, quits . Today, late in the afternoon on the day before a four-day holiday ...
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• Nothing Like the Day Before Thanksgiving for a Military Commissions Announcement

  
  The Washington Independent — Authority: 741
  Midday on Wednesday Nov. 25, one of the busiest travel times of the year, and journalists stuck in check-in lines at the airport frustratingly checking their mobile devices find this pre-Thanksgiving gift from the Department of Defense : Today, prosecutors in the Office of Military Commissions announced they intend ...
  2 weeks ago

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