Word: gitmo
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...naval brig, another one, John Walker Lindh, above, remains in a California prison. But he may soon be on the witness stand, testifying for the prosecution in the Guantánamo Bay military trials. Lindh, who pleaded guilty in 2002 to aiding the Taliban, is cooperating in the Gitmo trials in an effort to reduce his 20-year sentence, according to a government official familiar with the case. Considering his original indictment, Lindh may have some significant information to share about high-ranking al-Qaeda members. The 2002 indictment claimed that Lindh had met Osama bin Laden as well as another...
...suspension of liberties and civil rights in times of war has a precedent in the US, but that doesn’t make it right. From Lincoln’s transgressions during the Civil War to FDR’s camps in World War II to Gitmo, it’s not the way that a democracy is to endure. Time of war or not, citizen or not, a man has the right to face his accuser and answer the charges against him. Our society has to decide where we place the line between our perception of safety...
...court may issue key rulings on separation-of-powers issues, such as whether U.S. citizens can be locked up indefinitely without court review if the Pentagon deems them "enemy combatants." But the Justices may have already wielded some influence: at about the time the court agreed to hear the Gitmo case, the government began softening its line on detainees a bit. "There's no question that things started to change once the court agreed to hear the case," says a military official who recently left the Pentagon...
...charges that he improperly took classified material from the prison, but suspicions that he might be a spy seem to have evaporated. If the Pentagon had real concerns about Yee's loyalty, says a military official, "he wouldn't be free." At the same time, concerns about security at Gitmo were raised again last weekend when Army Colonel Jack Farr, a top official in the group conducting interrogations, was charged with mishandling classified material...
INSIDE GUANTANAMO The base is growing, detainees keep arriving, and a legal battle is brewing. What's next for Gitmo...