The Louisiana Board that licenses psychologists is facing a growing legal
fight over torture and medical care at the infamous Guantanamo and Abu Ghraib prisons.
In 2003, Louisiana psychologist and retired
colonel Larry James watched behind a one-way mirror in a U.S. prison camp while an
interrogator and three prison guards wrestled a screaming near-naked man on the
floor.
Well, that took a while. Nearly a year after George W.
WASHINGTON - A group of retired generals and war veterans has
launched a national campaign to rally support for White House plans to
shutter the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
WASHINGTON - The Supreme Court said Tuesday it will hear a new case about the rights of Guantanamo detainees, this time involving prisoners who remain in custody even after the Pentagon determines they're not a threat to the United States.
The high court said it will take a challenge from Chinese Muslims at the U.S. naval base in Cuba who no longer are classified as enemy combatants. Last year, the court said in a 5-4 ruling that federal judges could ultimately order some detainees to be released, depending on security concerns and other circumstances.
Jonathan Evans, the head of MI5, told an audience at Britsol University yesterday that we have to consort with people who torture, and that we can do so while keeping our own hands pristine clean.
Evans stressed that MI5 is "an accountable public organisation." Since it is generally neither accountable nor public, his speech should be seen as a welcome foray into the public arena.
WASHINGTON - Handing President Barack Obama a partial victory in his effort to close the Guantanamo Bay prison, House Democrats on Thursday repelled a Republican effort to block transfer of any of the detainees to the U.S.
Instead, by a 224-193 vote, the House stood by a Democratic plan to allow suspected enemy combatants held at the controversial Guantanamo facility to be shipped to U.S. soil - but only to be prosecuted for their suspected crimes.
The Guantanamo restrictions were attached by House-Senate negotiators on a $42.8 billion homeland security appropriations bill.
WASHINGTON - Congressional leaders agreed for the first time that Guantanamo detainees could be sent to US soil for trial, boosting President Barack Obama's bid to close the prison.
In two different draft bills, key Democratic lawmakers added clauses that would authorize detainees at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to be transferred to the United States to face trial under strict conditions.
As the eighth anniversary of the launch of Operation Enduring Freedom in Afghanistan approaches, the spotlight is on the Obama administration's evolving war strategy in a nation long known as the "graveyard of empires."
In the wake of terrible news out of Afghanistan, there is renewed debate at the Pentagon and White House over the future of the war.
In the first five days of the month, there have been more deaths of U.S. service members than in all of October in 2008. And the calls for an end to the war were increasingly loud outside the White House Monday afternoon.
In four years of researching and writing about Guantánamo, I have
become used to uncovering shocking information, but for sheer cynicism,
I am struggling to think of anything that compares to the revelations
contained in the unclassified ruling in the habeas corpus petition of
Fouad al-Rabiah, a Kuwaiti prisoner whose release was ordered last week
by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly (Posted in guantanamo, torture
