Reports today suggest that Guantanamo Bay will not be closed by Obama's January 22nd 2010 deadline as not every detainee will be removed by that time, although the number left will be considerably less than the...
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"The CIA inspector general’s report — which former VP Dick Cheney himself urged be released — not only did not back up Cheney’s claims about the effectiveness of enhanced interrogation, it seemed to...
Ex-Guantanamo detainee Mohammad Jawad is suing the US government for ill treatment. Mohammad Jawad was released from the Guantanamo Bay prison earlier this week, according to earthtimes.org. Jawad, now in his early 20s, was released after 7 years and was one of the youngest...
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"A federal appeals court in Canada ruled Friday that because officials knew about the abuse of a young Canadian detained at Guantanamo Bay, they must ask the United States to repatriate him.In the ruling, Canadian...
Oooops, looks like non-officer-holder, former disgraced Speaker of the House and current professional lobbyist Newt Gingrich got called out for his lies again. This time by a member of his own party, Rep....
Another Gitmo prisoner has come forward to describe the torture he received at Guantanamo Bay. And, no, there was no "ticking bomb" Hollywood-ish scenario this time either. Lakdar Boumediene was never...
Stop the presses! One Democrat, yes, one, has finally had the guts to call out Dick Cheney on his recent "torture/waterboarding protected the entire country" press tour. "Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI) spoke last night...
Is White House Spokesman Robert Gibbs channeling George W. Bush?In an amazing statement today, Gibbs questioned the accuracy of the entire British news media. The same British news media that broke the...
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has been popping up on TV talk shows claiming that torture has saved lives, without providing any actual proof. Even his precious daughter, Liz Cheney has defended torture,...
While the Republicans (and many Democrats) try to stop President Obama from closing the notorious Guantanamo Bay prison based on the non-logical fearmongering mantra of "terrorists will be on American soil" (many...
"In an appearance on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” former Secretary of State Colin Powell noted that he had called for Gitmo’s closure for “the past six years,” and argued that the former vice president’s...
Today, Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), a senior member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, called on his Democrat and Republican colleagues in the U.S. Senate to stand by their commitment to prevent Gitmo...
"A military attorney who represented a now-freed Guantanamo detainee told CNN on Wednesday that waterboarding is only “the tip of the iceberg” Air Force Lieutenant Colonel Yvonne Bradley was the lawyer for...
The US Senate voted 90-6 on Wednesday to reject the planned transfer of 240 detainees from Guantanamo Bay and refused the $80 million funding request Obama's administration had previously made to close down the...
Officials at the National Institute for Truth Verification issued the following news release today, four days after I published the second post in a two-part series about the U.S. military’s use of portable lie...