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...pressure is the growing international controversy over what amounts to a clandestine CIA prison system. The Washington Post reported last week that the agency at different times has had top al-Qaeda detainees stashed at "black sites" in several East European countries, as well as in Thailand, Afghanistan and Guant??namo Bay, Cuba...
...Number of detainees on a hunger strike at the U.S. naval base at Guant??namo Bay, Cuba...
...scheme at work: people in the government badly want Lincoln dead and silenced. That could sustain a long run, as well as intraprison intrigue, including a simmering racial rumble. And who knows? Maybe, 24-style, Scofield could break out of a bigger and better prison every season (Rikers Island! Guant??namo!). Sure, that would take some strenuous plotting gymnastics. But in its confident debut, Break shows that implausibility can be, well, captivating. --By James Poniewozik
...really controversial rulings Roberts has joined as a federal judge came down earlier this month, when the court said that prisoners held in Guant??namo Bay are not protected by the Geneva Convention and can be tried by military commissions. Roberts dissented in 2003 when his own court refused to rehear Vice President Dick Cheney's appeal to keep secret records from the meetings of his energy task force. Cheney had argued that handing over such documents would violate executive privilege...
Detainee 063 was never physically harmed. He put his health in peril with his refusal to eat and take fluids. His treatment should be put in the proper context. Prisoners at Guant??namo are fed meals that accord with their religious beliefs, they are given Korans and prayer rugs, and their health is monitored. Torture camp? Sounds more like a resort...