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Which may help explain why the White House so excitedly trumpeted Bush's announcement last week that the Administration was transferring 14 high-profile al-Qaeda terrorists to the U.S. prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba. Bush had to acknowledge that the 14 had been held in secret CIA facilities in undisclosed locations, a fact that had been reported and had generated international controversy. But the value for the Administration in bringing these men into the light was to remind Americans of the very real enemies they face...
Human-rights lawyer Gareth Peirce has clients in some of Britain's most high-profile cases, including detainees at Guantánamo Bay and two of those accused last month of plotting to detonate explosives aboard flights between Britain and the U.S. Inspired by the U.S. civil-rights movement, Peirce first made headlines by securing the release of falsely imprisoned i.r.a. suspects. She spoke to Time's Jessica Carsen about law, justice and her portrayal in a Hollywood movie. What are the greatest threats to human rights today? The clear willingness of governments who have a history of considering that...
...thing for airport screeners to peek inside your shoes or squeeze your toothpaste tube. It's another when they pull you aside for questioning because you set off alarms on some scanning device whose reliability could be shaky. And who knows what techniques are already in use at Guantánamo and other extralegal holding pens...
RETIRED. U.S. Major General Geoffrey Miller, 56, former commander of detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay and deputy commanding general for detainee operations in Iraq; from the U.S. Army; in Washington. The interrogation techniques the two-star general helped organize at Gitmo and Abu Ghraib were so controversial that Miller retired rather than face rebuke. Army officials, insisting Miller was wrongly taking the fall, awarded him with the Distinguished Service Medal at his Pentagon retirement ceremony...
...While I am a great believer in the U.S. as a force for good, the thought of Guantánamo Bay leaves me sickened and disillusioned. The detentions show that in some significant ways, the U.S. has become like its terrorist enemies. Gitmo exists because of a technicality: it is not on U.S. soil. It would have been dismantled long ago if it were in Texas. Wayne Rosen Calgary, Canada...