On Monday, one day after the New York Times and the Washington Post reported that the Obama administration was planning to introduce…
A month ago, rulings made by District Court judges in the habeas corpus appeals of prisoners held at Guantánamo seemed, for the…
On August 28, in the first indication that European countries are prepared to help the Obama administration fulfill its promise to close…
Back in September 2005, when I first began researching Guantánamo for my book The Guantánamo Files, the prison was still shrouded in…
Imagine if you were imprisoned for seven years without charge or trial, and then a judge ruled that the government’s case against…
On Thursday, in a long-anticipated ruling (PDF), Judge Ellen Segan Huvelle granted the habeas corpus petition of Mohamed Jawad, an Afghan teenager…
Last Thursday, while most U.S. media outlets were focused relentlessly on the marathon endurance test that was Sonia Sotomayor’s Supreme Court confirmation…
At Guantánamo last week, the Military Commission trial system convened for only the second time since President Obama announced a four-month freeze…
On Wednesday, I reported how Retired Rear Admiral John D. Hutson, the former Judge Advocate General of the US Navy from 1997…
In over three years of researching and reporting about the prisoners held at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, I learned early on to expect,…
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