Guantanamo

Viral Facebook Post Rips Right-Wing Arguments Against Omar Khadr Settlement

Gitmo 2.0: Draft Executive Order Reveals Trump Plan to Expand Offshore Prison

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

A draft executive order reported to be circulating within the Trump White House calls for keeping the notorious Guantánamo Bay prison open and allowing for individuals associated with the Islamic State (ISIS) to be sent there—a plan described by one expert as "toxic policy" and "a national security disaster." "Guantánamo 2.0 would be a national...

That's It. Eight Years Later, Obama White House Admits Gitmo Won't Close

Andrea Germanos, staff writer

The Obama administration made clear Tuesday that it would not be fulfilling its...

'Deny Trump Tools to Torture': Progressives Call on Obama to Close Gitmo

Nika Knight, staff writer

As pro-torture President-elect Donald Trump prepares to take office, members of...

Is John Kelly 'Unfit' (or Sadly Suited) to Lead Homeland Security Under Trump?

Trump Fear-Mongers on Gitmo as White House Readies for Additional Transfers

Trump Picks Pro-Surveillance, Tea Party Hawk Mike Pompeo to Lead CIA

Abducted, Tortured, Held 14 Years Without Trial, 'Gitmo Diary' Author Finally Free

As Torture's Mental Toll is Illuminated, Doctors Call for US Accountability

Held 14 Years Without Charge, CIA Torture 'Guinea Pig' Abu Zubaydah Asks for Freedom

US Transfers 15 Guantánamo Detainees as Rights Groups Push for Full Closure

Documents Confirm CIA Censorship of Guantánamo Trials

Torture Victims Describe 'Cruelty of CIA' in Newly Released Transcripts

New CIA Documents Reveal More Horrors of President Bush's Torture Program

Just 'Too Difficult': Obama Admits Defeat on Major '08 Campaign Promise

Gitmo Judge Allowed Destruction of Evidence in 9/11 Case: Report

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This Criminal Act: Navy Nurse First to Refuse to Carry Out Brutal Gitmo Force-Feedings

In the first known instance of U.S. military conscience objection at Guantánamo, a male Navy nurse has refused to continue taking part in the often brutal forced feeding of Gitmo hunger strikers, who consider the practice torture. News of the historic action, reportedly by a Latino captain, came from a Syrian hunger striker who is challenging the policy in court and described the nurse's evolution: "Once he saw with his own eyes that what he was told was contrary to what was actually taking...