President Obama’s hopes of closing Guantánamo, which were already gravely wounded by his inability to meet his self-imposed deadline of a year…
On February 24, as I reported in an article entitled, “The Black Hole of Guantánamo,” Judge Henry H. Kennedy Jr. granted the…
Friday marked the seventh anniversary of the illegal invasion of Iraq, but by now, it seems, the American people have become used…
Congratulations to the Swiss Canton of Jura, which recently accepted the asylum claims of two Uighur prisoners at Guantánamo, and to the…
On Wednesday evening, the Associated Press reported that, in court filings, Justice Department lawyers stated that Attorney General Eric Holder has decided…
Over last weekend, 12 prisoners were released from Guantánamo, as the Justice Department announced in a press release on December 20. I…
On Monday, as I explained in a previous article, Judge Thomas Hogan refused the habeas corpus petition of Musa’ab al-Madhwani, a Yemeni…
In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism, I…
On Monday, following a request from the Obama administration, Army Col. Stephen Henley, the military judge in the proposed trial by Military…
On Thursday, U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly struck another decisive blow to the credibility of the Bush administration’s detention policies at…
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