At the very moment he needed to inspire the American people, Obama capitulated to authoritarian demands for a military trial even a CENTCOM general thinks is wrong.
It doesn't go far enough, but Obama's Executive Order is an important step towards restoring the rule of law to a prison that was created entirely to flout the Constitution.
Of course the Guantanamo protests will never rise to the scale of Egypt’s, but for detainees held indefinitely, these smaller protests emerge incredibly significant.
Jason Leopold, Jeffrey Kaye, TruthOut.org. December 3, 2010.
The Defense Department forced all "war on terror" detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison to take a high dosage of a controversial antimalarial drug, mefloquine.
A federal court has declared that hundreds of detainees in Afghanistan have no right to challenge their detention, despite rulings granting the same right to prisoners at Gitmo.
Omar Khadr, who has spent his entire adult life at Guantanamo, was threatened with rape by U.S. interrogators upon his capture more than seven years ago.
Documentary filmmaker Laura Poitras discusses her new film about Salim Hamdan's brother-in-law, Abu Jandal, a Yemeni taxi driver who was Osama bin Laden's bodyguard.
Andy Worthington, Andy Worthington's Blog. May 4, 2010.
For years, a rigged judicial system has failed to prosecute Omar Khadr, just 15 when he was captured by the U.S. Why does Obama continue this miscarriage of justice?
After nine years in captivity, including physical and psychological torture, Mohamedou Ould Salahi has been ordered released by Federal District Judge James Robertson.
At first it seemed Obama was on track to make good on his campaign promise of halting military commissions. Instead, he's reviving the same system he once abhorred.
