Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp News

A trio of fashion-forward kids from Tel Aviv playing bubblegum electro-pop that seems genetically engineered to reassure us all that everything's going to be okay.

The vat majority of those who voted for Barack Obama in 2008 regarded his victory as one that would result in respect for human rights and the end of brutality in prisons containing those charged with crimes during fighting in Iraq or Afghanistan.

President Obama speaks at the National Defense University this afternoon about his counterterrorism policies.

In the first half, journalist Bob McCarty detailed his extensive research into the federal government's use of outdated polygraph technology as a tool of interrogation rather than more effective methods.

My purpose here is twofold: first, to provide insight directly relating to a recent diary demanding the release of the much-discussed "Torture Report"; and second, to demonstrate the level of credence currently given to citizens who have grave concerns about the behavior of their government and express them to someone they are led to believe will ... (more)

2 Guantanamo release: The U.S. sent home to Algeria on Thursday a long-held Guantanamo captive who was cleared for return years ago but for a time sought resettlement elsewhere rather than repatriation to his civil-war-stricken homeland.

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While the unfolding Constitutional crisis over the CIA's spying on Senate staffers reviewing the torture program continues, all media accounts are quick to add to their articles a variant of the phrase that "Obama discontinued the enhanced interrogation programs soon after coming into office."

For news details visit : http://www.nation.com.pk/international/14-Mar-2014/a-letter-from-guantanamo For news details Read on : A letter from Guantanamo I write this letter, as I wrote my last, between bouts of violent vomiting and sharp pains in my stomach caused by this morning's force-feeding session.

U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein turns to talk to reporters as she walks to the weekly Democratic caucus policy luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington March 11, 2014.

Belbacha, a native Algerian who was detained in Pakistan in 2002, had been held at Guantanamo for 12 years without a trial or formal charges.

An Algerian held for 12 years without charge at Guantanamo Bay has been sent back to his homeland.

Harvard University law professors Alan Dershowitz and Noah Feldman argue that the president's war-making powers give him the authority to kill U.S. citizens overseas.

There are intense debates underway in the United States over the question of targeted killings of terrorist suspects abroad - particularly when those individuals are U.S. citizens.

Finally, the flashback we were all waiting for: we learn that before the blackout, whiny, ineffectual U.S. government bureaucrat Ed Truman was a whiny, ineffectual U.S. government soldier at Guantanamo Bay, until the whole federal government sailed up.

In his State of the Union address, President Obama renewed his unfulfilled commitment to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay.

For me one of the most horrifying revelations about the torture carried out by the Central Intelligence Agency at its black sites, and the military at its prisons, was that medical doctors not only stood by to monitor the process but were also involved in providing advice to make the torture both mentally and physically more effective.

When I wrote a book about mobs and group-think a few years ago, I could honestly say that mob behavior existed exclusively on the left in America -- unless you count Oakland Raiders tailgate parties, which I do not.

After Cuba's revolution in 1959, Havana squandered what was arguably its best opportunity to force the United States to abandon its lease of a naval base at Guantanamo: a legal doctrine that allows a nation to terminate a treaty if a fundamental change occurs in the circumstances that led to it.

As I followed some stone steps leading through a pretty courtyard to the side entrance of the Unitarian Church of All Souls on the upper East side of New York last Thursday [1-9-14], I drew in a serious lungful of cold, crisp night air to help gird myself for what I was about to hear and see.