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Don't forget us here : lost and found at Guantánamo
\"The moving, eye-opening memoir of an innocent man detained at Gauntánamo Bay for 15 years: a story of humanity in the unlikeliest of places and an unprecedented look at life at Gauntánamo on the eve of its 20th anniversary\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Our Nation Unhinged
Jose Padilla short-shackled and wearing blackened goggles and earmuffs to block out all light and sound on his way to the dentist. Fifteen-year-old Omar Khadr crying out to an American soldier, \"Kill me!\" Hunger strikers at Guantánamo being restrained and force-fed through tubes up their nostrils. John Walker Lindh lying naked and blindfolded in a metal container, bound by his hands and feet, in the freezing Afghan winter night. This is the story of the Bush administration's response to the attacks of September 11, 2001—and of how we have been led down a path of executive abuses, human tragedies, abandonment of the Constitution, and the erosion of due process and liberty. In this vitally important book, Peter Jan Honigsberg chronicles the black hole of the American judicial system from 2001 to the present, providing an incisive analysis of exactly what we have lost over the past seven years and where we are now headed.
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The Terror Courts
Soon after the September 11 attacks in 2001, the United States captured hundreds of suspected al-Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. By the following January the first of these prisoners arrived at the U.S. military's prison camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they were subject to President George W. Bush's executive order authorizing their trial by military commissions. Jess Bravin, theWall Street Journal's Supreme Court correspondent, was there within days of the prison's opening, and has continued ever since to cover the U.S. effort to create a parallel justice system for enemy aliens. A maze of legal, political, and moral issues has stood in the way of justice-issues often raised by military prosecutors who found themselves torn between duty to the chain of command and their commitment to fundamental American values.
While much has been written about Guantanamo and brutal detention practices following 9/11, Bravin is the first to go inside the Pentagon's prosecution team to expose the real-world legal consequences of those policies. Bravin describes cases undermined by inadmissible evidence obtained through torture, clashes between military lawyers and administration appointees, and political interference in criminal prosecutions that would be shocking within the traditional civilian and military justice systems. With the Obama administration planning to try the alleged 9/11 conspirators at Guantanamo-and vindicate the legal experiment the Bush administration could barely get off the ground-The Terror Courtscould not be more timely.
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The Torture Papers
The Torture Papers document the so-called 'torture memos' and reports which US government officials wrote to prepare the way for, and to document, coercive interrogation and torture in Afghanistan, Guantanamo, and Abu Ghraib. These documents present for the first time a compilation of materials that prior to publication have existed only piecemeal in the public domain. The Bush Administration, concerned about the legality of harsh interrogation techniques, understood the need to establish a legally viable argument to justify such procedures. The memos and reports document the systematic attempt of the US Government to prepare the way for torture techniques and coercive interrogation practices, forbidden under international law, with the express intent of evading legal punishment in the aftermath of any discovery of these practices and policies.
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American Prisoners in Cuba
In November, 2003, \"the United States Supreme Court decided that it would hear two very important cases...These cases could possibly decide the fate of over 600 people who are being held in jails by the United States...[They] will decide whether or not the United States should be able to take away the rights of individuals during times of war.\" (Kidsnewsroom) Learn why the U.S. Supreme Court will hear two cases involving prisoners being held at a U.S. Naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The rights of prisoners held by the United States during the U.S.-led war on terrorism are discussed.
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The Handling of Detainees by U.K. Intelligence Personnel in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay, and Iraq
Assesses treatment of detainees by U.K. intelligence personnel in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq; examines U.K. policy, Global War on Terror, concerns about ghost detainees, and role of military intelligence; and provides recommendations for improvement.
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Guantanamo Eyes Possible Execution Chamber
\"Guantanamo officials are working on plans to provide a courtroom, a prison and an execution chamber if the order comes to try terror suspects at the base in Cuba, the mission commander said. Although no new directive has been given and no plan has been approved, a handful of experts are looking at what it will take to try, imprison and, if need be, execute detainees accused of links to Afghanistan's fallen Taliban regime or to the al-Qaida terror network.\" (Frederick News-Post) Read about the U.S. plans to try, imprison and possibly execute terror suspects being held at Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. Find out why some civil liberties advocates are critical of these plans.
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Action Requirements Contained in Our F.Y.-1979 Authorization Act Includes Attachment
Forwards report in response to congressional request for review of U.S. diplomatic and trade relations with Cuba.
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Policy Review Committee Meeting, March 9, 1977
National Security Council Policy Review Committee discusses policy toward Cuba and agrees to move slowly in normalizing relations.
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