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...constitutional or judicial oversight over their actions. A government that disregards human values abroad, engages in torture, and arbitrarily detains people without a fair trial would have serious credibility question marks. How could citizens trust such a regime for their protection?The Bush administration is such a regime. As Guant??namo Bay enters its seventh reprehensible year, it seems unlikely that truth about it will ever come out. The only reports of what happens inside of Guant??namo are leaked memos and words of some of captives who are lucky enough to be released. Most of these...
Like a studio releasing once censored scenes from a classic horror movie, on April 1 the Pentagon declassified a key memo used to justify the abuse of prisoners by the U.S. military in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay. Completed six days before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in March 2003, the full text of the 81-page document is rife with shockingly broad edicts about prisoner treatment, like this barely constitutional chestnut: "In wartime, it is for the President alone to decide what methods to use to prevail against the enemy...
...destruction of videos allegedly showing torture in its secret overseas prisons, while Attorney General Michael Mukasey remains on the defensive for not condemning specific forms of torture. A variety of cases in lower courts and at the Supreme Court address allegations of faulty process and illegal detention at Guant??namo...
...balance between short-term security interests and longer run diplomatic goals.To do away with the department itself is not an option; America obviously requires an inward-looking security service. The term “Homeland Security,” however, has been so stigmatized by abuses at the Guant??namo Bay detention facility and by invasive customs procedures at American ports of entry that a change in terminology would be a significant symbol of America’s desire to reconnect with the world. And history shows precedence for such a symbolic action: it is not for nothing that...
Khan's lawyers, armed with more than 500 pages of top-secret notes taken during recent sessions with their client at Guant??namo, will describe his interrogation to the intelligence committee. Though details of Khan's detainment are classified, his lawyers claim that he and others were tortured and videotaped, charges that Hayden and CIA special-interrogation officials deny. Hayden, however, admitted on Feb. 5 that the CIA had used waterboarding against Mohammed and two others...