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Catch-22 in the 21st Century

Government censors are making like Joseph Heller's character Yossarian and blacking out random information in letters from Guantánamo that has nothing to do with "national security"

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Third Time’s the Charm?

The military didn't even bother to retain most of the documents from the Combatant Status Review Tribunals conducted in 2004, so the government has no documents showing any reason for holding these men

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Suicide and Spin Doctors

There are many ways for the oppressor to force himself into the mind of the oppressed, but one surefire way is through indefinite detention. Never knowing when--or if--you will be released is a cruel form of psychological torture and allows you to keep hope while simultaneously filling you with fear

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Inside the Secret Facility

In an Orwellian twist, the U.S. government monitors all correspondence between a Guantánamo attorney and her client

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Gitmo’s Last Honest Man

Abraham found that "evidence" was generally gathered by inexperienced staff with little legal or intelligence training, and he got no assurance that he was given access to all available evidence on a detainee

vol. 31, iss. 09    ,

Get Me Out of Gitmo

Most detainees at Guantánamo are willing and able to go home, but Bush's spin continues to dizzy our corporate media

vol. 31, iss. 08    ,

Torture By Another Name

The origins of "enhanced interrogation techniques" can be traced to the German Gestapo

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Locking Attorneys out of Guantánamo

Government launches war against habeas counsel under claim that lawyers are "acting as a conduit for the media"

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The Guantánamo Hunger Strike

Fasting prisoners force-fed twice a day as 30-inch plastic tubes are forced into their esophaguses

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Reading Harry Potter in Guantánamo

The prisoners at Guantánamo Bay--or Azkaban, as one of my clients, a Harry Potter fan, calls it--have had… more

vol. 31, iss. 04    ,

Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire

Who's to blame for America's new torture techniques?

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Inside America’s Gulag

A Guantánamo lawyer reports from a parallel legal universe

vol. 31, iss. 02    , ,

8 Reasons to Close Guantnamo Now

The first detainees arrived in Guantánamo four months to the day after the 9/11 attacks. From the opening… more

vol. 31, iss. 02    , ,

Diary of a Guantánamo Attorney

I fell into the world of Guantánamo in October 2005. The Chicago Council of Lawyers had organized a… more

vol. 31, iss. 01    ,

Lawyers Fight for Habeas Rights

The Military Commissions Act suspends Habeas corpus for foreign citizens accused of hostilities against the U.S.

vol. 30, iss. 11    , ,

Tracking the CIA Torture Flights

In their new book Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the CIA's Rendition Flights, A.C. Thompson and Trevor Paglen detail how the CIA transports detainees worldwide.

vol. 30, iss. 10    , , ,

The Senselessness of Guantnamo

Chicago Lawyer Joseph Marguiles' Guantánamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power (Simon & Schuster) is about as convincing… more

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