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Families Sue Over So-Called Guantanamo 'Suicides'

Willam Fisher, IPS News. March 20, 2010.

The families are asking a federal court to hold the U.S. government accountable for their sons' torture, arbitrary detention, and ultimate deaths.

Obama Is Keeping Bush's Worst "War on Terror" Policies Firmly In Place

Julian Sanchez, The Nation. October 24, 2009.

Thanks to behind-the-scenes maneuvering by the Obama administration, a bipartisan majority has approved legislation that seems to abandon hope of reining in the Patriot Act.

"Dirty Bomb" Charges Dropped Against Gitmo Prisoner Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington, AlterNet. October 16, 2008.

Mohamed was brutally tortured after being rendered by the CIA to Morocco. "We're going to change your brain," one of his captors said.

Shake-Up at Gitmo: A Prosecutor Resigns, Citing 'Ethical Qualms' Over Suppressed Evidence

Andy Worthington, AlterNet. October 1, 2008.

A day after the controversial Gen. Thomas Hartmann is relocated, Lt. Col. Darell Vandeveld resigns, citing "slipshod" prosecutions.

Retired General: "The Current Administration Has Committed War Crimes"

Amy Goodman, Juan Gonzalez, Democracy Now!. June 23, 2008.

As Congress pieces together the White House torture program, former Army General Antonio Taguba condemns Bush's "systematic regime of torture."

How the Pentagon Turned an Interrogation Resistance Program into a Blueprint for Torture

Spencer Ackerman, Washington Independent. June 19, 2008.

At a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing this week, answers about the Bush administration's "enhanced interrogations" finally came to light.

Afghan Prisoners Abused by U.S. Military in Retaliation for 9/11

Anand Gopal, Christian Science Monitor. June 18, 2008.

An eight-month investigation by McClatchy newspapers finds the U.S. has wrongfully imprisoned, and routinely tortured, scores of terrorist suspects.