Aziz Huq : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court's ruling in Boumediene v. Bush affirmed prisoners' right to habeas corpus, but the government is stalling; and such delays may keep detainees imprisoned indefinitely.
David Cole : Torture
Salim Hamdam's conviction and short sentence does nothing to repair the damage the Bush Administration has done.
Ross Tuttle : Law & Justice
New evidence sheds light on the inappropriate and corrupting influence of Brig. General Thomas Hartmann on the military commissions process.
David Cole : Supreme Court
By a single vote, the Supreme Court stood up to an Administration that has declared war on the rule of law.
Jonathan Hafetz : Supreme Court
The Supreme Court delivers a dramatic blow to the President's lawless detention policies, overturns an effort by the previous Congress to eliminate the right of habeas corpus and sounds the death knell for Guantánamo Bay prison.
Robert Scheer : Torture
The muted response to revelations of torture raises the question of whether Americans are truly savages or simply tone-deaf on matters of morality.
Robert Scheer
Those confessions elicited from Gitmo detainees are proving legally worthless--and an enduring indictment of the moral bankruptcy of George W. Bush.
Aziz Huq
America's legal and moral responsibility to innocent detainees is not more imprisonment, but a new life in the United States.
The Editors : George W. Bush
New revelations of political interference in the prosecution of Gitmo prisoners shows Team Bush scrambling to keep one step ahead of history--and of criminal charges.
Ross Tuttle : US Military
Lieut. Cmdr. Brian Mizer has filed a motion to dismiss charges against Salim Hamdan, in light of new evidence documenting the improper involvement of political appointees.
Ross Tuttle : US Military
As criticism over his support for torture and his interference in the Gitmo trials escalates, William J. Haynes steps down.
Ross Tuttle : Civil Rights & Liberties
Has the Pentagon foreclosed the possibility of acquittals for terror suspects?
Ross Tuttle
In an exclusive interview, Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo's military commissions, says that the Pentagon has foreclosed the possibility of acquittals.
David Hicks pleads guilty and goes free, while the Supreme Court denies nearly 400 other terror suspects their day in court. This is justice?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : Supreme Court
The US Supreme Court should look back on its most regrettable and most courageous decisions.
Jonathan Hafetz : Constitutional Questions
Unless the Supreme Court or Congress intervenes, an appeals court ruling this week on Guantánamo detainees opens the door to a global detention system where people can be moved like pawns in a perversion of American justice.
It's been five years since the first prisoners arrived at the US Naval base at Guantánamo. Will the new Congress undo the damage?
Jeremy Brecher & Brendan Smith : US Military
The standoff between the Senate and the Bush Administration over military tribunals, torture and war crimes tests core legal and moral issues and will determine the kind of country America wishes to be.
The Supreme Court's Hamdan v. Rumsfeld decision is to Bush what the Pentagon Papers were to Nixon: a devastating rebuke of a President who thought he had a blank check and a clear affirmation of human rights and the rule of law.
Progressives have sparked courtroom litigation and social protest to focus public attention on Guantánamo. Now the Bush Administration should shut it down.
Twenty-five members of the Catholic Worker movement are walking across Cuba to the US Naval prison at Guantánamo Bay in hopes of meeting with more than 500 detainees, the first time peace activists have brought their protests to the tropical gulag. If they are turned away, the pilgrims plan on conducting a vigil outside.
Human rights organizations have coordinated an investigation into torture and an extensive defense of detainees, organizing lawyers who represent clients from nonprofits to oil and gas companies. But the issue of torture needs to transcend the legal world.
Karen J. Greenberg : George W. Bush Administration
By the time the first prisoners were taken in Iraq, a green light to abuse had been issued in writing. Now torture is cloaked in a veil of secrecy, with obscured statistics, dismissal of human rights reports and outright denial. Torture has proved to be a window into the Bush Administration's pursuit of the war on terror.
Clive Stafford Smith : US Wars & Military Action
The US military is keeping the ongoing hunger strike and forced feedings of Guantanamo Bay under wraps. And an apathetic American media is showing no interest in exposing the situation.
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