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PROFILE: Guantanamo Lawyer Speaks Out

By Harry Hanbury on Jun 17, 2008

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Despite its recent 5-4 rejection of the legal basis for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the Supreme Court may flip back to support the Bush administration's views on executive power. Steven Wax, a Federal Public Defender who represents seven Gitmo prisoners, is in the middle of this Constitutional maelstrom.

Sen. Lindsey Graham Debates Himself on Detainee Torture

By Mike Fritz David Murdock

Senator Lindsey Graham was a passionate critic of the Bush Justice attorneys during this past summer's Armed Services Committee hearings on interrogation.

Lately, however, Graham seems to have had second thoughts on the matter...

May 18, 2009

Lindsey Graham Debates Himself on Detainee Torture

By David Murdock Mike Fritz

The issue of detainee abuse and torture has tied more than one public official into rhetorical knots. Rep.

Keywords: Government, National Security, Politics, Abu Ghraib, CIA Interrogations, Jay Bybee, John Yoo, Senator Lindsey Graham, Steven Bradbury, torture, Torture memos

Apr 28, 2009

The Jay Bybee Problem

By David Murdock

As pressure grows for Congress to remove Judge Jay Bybee from his seat on the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, people are revisiting the process that put him there in the first place.

Keywords: Government, National Security, Politics, Abu Ghraib, Jay Bybee, Scott Horton, torture, Torture memos

Apr 23, 2009

The Jay Bybee Problem

By David Murdock

How did Jay Bybee breeze through a confirmation hearing for his appointment to the Federal Appeals Court in February 2003? Not a single Democrat questioned Bybee at the session, and the proceedings came to a quick conclusion...

Mar 19, 2009

KBR Work Presents 'Security Risk' Says Pentagon Official

By David Murdock Danielle Ivory

Thousands without background checks may have been given access to military bases at home and abroad.

Keywords: Corruption, Government, National Security, background checks, cac cards, contractors, Heddell, KBR, military, Moran, security

Nov 17, 2008

Closing Down Gitmo: An interview with David Cole

By David Murdock

President-elect Barack Obama says closing down the detainee camp in Guantanamo Bay will be a top priority of his new administration...

Jul 15, 2008

D.C. SNAPSHOT: Feith on Torture

By Harry Hanbury

Does a 20-hour interrogation involving "hooding" and "removal of clothing" constitute inhumane treatment? Rep...

Jul 15, 2008

D.C. SNAPSHOT: Feith on Torture (long version)

By Harry Hanbury

Does a 20-hour interrogation involving "hooding" and "removal of clothing" constitute inhumane treatment? Rep...

Jul 14, 2008

Reporter's Notebook: Ten Lessons from Recent Torture Hearings

By David Murdock

The "enhanced interrogation tactics, " used in Guantanamo under orders from the Pentagon and the White House have been the subject of numerous hearings on Capitol Hill recently...

Jun 26, 2008

D.C. SNAPSHOT: Bush Lawyers on Child Torture and Burial Alive

By Harry Hanbury

On June 26, 2008, John Yoo and David Addington, two leading architects of the Bush administration's policies on torture, testified before the House Judiciary Committee...

Jun 25, 2008

Spencer Ackerman on Torture at Gitmo

By Davin Hutchins

June 26 is the UN's official day to show support for victims of torture...

Jun 17, 2008

PROFILE: Guantanamo Lawyer Speaks Out

By Harry Hanbury

Despite its recent 5-4 rejection of the legal basis for the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, the Supreme Court may flip back to support the Bush administration's views on executive power...