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...These are the basic facts: foreigners are being held indefinitely at the U.S. naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba, under orders from President Bush. The legal status of these detainees is in flux as the administration argues before the judiciary that American laws do not apply to overseas military installations. Appeals have worked their way up to the Supreme Court, which has sided with the administration...
...sentence might seem like a factual error, as well as an editorial oversight—after all, the high court upheld the right of enemy combatants to challenge their detentions in the Hamdi and Rasul rulings. But bear with me. This review is not about the Taliban fighters on Guant??namo now, but about the Haitian refugees who were the naval base’s unwilling tenants...
...group of Yale law students and their professor who fought to get the Haitian refugees into America. Goldstein intersperses this story with an account of the harrowing journey of Yvonne Pascal, a young pro-democracy activist who escaped torture in her homeland only to find herself fenced in on Guant??namo. “Storming the Court” is a fascinating legal drama—a sort of modern “Amistad...
President George H.W. Bush feared the political ramifications of opening the borders to a flood of Haitians, especially after a number of them tested HIV-positive. After a lower court initially blocked him from sending the refugees back, Bush held them at Guant??namo. In the meantime, the federal appellate court in Atlanta ruled that the Haitians had no protection under American law because, at Guant??namo, they were outside the U.S. At the naval base, Immigration and Naturalization Service officials classified many of the escapees as “economic...
Counterterrorism sources have confirmed to TIME that the CIA has had covert detention centers in Thailand and Guant??namo Bay, which are no longer operating, and that the agency continues to run similar facilities in Afghanistan and Eastern Europe. In Afghanistan, the agency's prison was once located in an old brick factory near Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked...