December 09, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
The shocking story about the three mysterious deaths at Guantanamo Bay in 2006 aren't the only Gitmo related stories making the rounds this week. Here's a look at other tales of Gitmo in the news, including a video by The Young Turks on the detainee death potential cover-up. Read More »
December 08, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Harper's Scott Horton sat down with MSNBC's Keith Olbermann to discuss the breaking story of the three alleged suicides of Guantanamo Bay detainees in 2006. According to reports, the three inmates all committed suicide in the same manner, somehow binding and gagging themselves, placing fake dummies in their beds to fool authorities, then hanging themselves in their cells, going dead and undetected for nearly two hours. Many people are suggesting foul play. Not a surprise coming from a prison chosen because it was "beyond" the rule of law. In a separate interview, study supervisor Mark Denbeaux said "The most innocent explanation is that this is Gitmo meets Lord of the Flies." Read More »
December 07, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
According to the US military report, on the night of June 9, 2006, three individual detainees in individual cells in Guantanamo Bay prison somehow "braided nooses out of their sheets and/or pillowcases, made mannequins of themselves so it would appear to the guards that they were asleep, hung sheets to block vision into their cells, tied their own feet together, tied their own hands together, stuffed rags down their mouths and throats, hung the noose from the metal mesh of their cell walls/ceilings, climbed up on to their sinks, put the nooses around their necks, released their weight to result in death by strangulation, and hung for at least two hours, completely unnoticed by guards, even though the cells were supposed to be under constant supervision by guards and video monitoring." It's all over the internet. Here's a brief round-up of what's been said so far. Read More »
December 04, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Check out this new video interview featuring author and activist Andy Worthington as he talks about his work in exposing the real story behind the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Read More »
December 04, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
What's fear got to do with it? When it comes to Guantanamo detainees, Illinois and House Rep. Mark Kirk -- everything. That is until you realize that the fear card isn't working. Rep. Kirk dealt from the bottom of the deck and got trumped by the truth when others balked at his gloom n' doom rhetoric. Now he's back-peddling and saying he wants a "dispassionate and specific" debate on detainees coming to a prison in Thomson, Ill. Hmm. Too little, too late for the man who thinks Chicago is about to become a Jihadi hot zone. Read More »
December 02, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
In President Obama's speech Tuesday he reiterated his pledge to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay and that America is against torture -- but what about stories of "black jail" sites in Bagram, Afghanistan? Read More »
November 30, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Check out our round-up of various bills and resolutions meant to stop or stall any Guantanamo Bay prison detainees from coming to trial in the U.S. Read More »
November 25, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
A look at what's the talk of the blogs going into the Thanksgiving Holiday Weekend Read More »
November 24, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
It's the new right wing buzz word, defaming our civil justice system by calling the upcoming stateside trials of terrorists and Guantanamo By detainees "show trials." The reality is that the only thing these trials will "show" is that we believe in our justice system and we aren't afraid to stand up for what we believe in. Read More »
November 23, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Is McCarthyism making a comeback? We hope not, but when certain Senators like Chuck Grassley and Jon Kyl start "demanding" a list of names of employees in the Justice Department with ties to Gitmo detainee advocacy groups we start to catch a whiff of that old Salem Witch Trial vibe Sen. Joseph McCarthy was so fond. Have right wingers gone "snipe hunting" for the elusive "terrorist sympathizers" of the DOJ the way McCarthy went hunting for "Commies" in the State Department? Read More »
November 20, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
The sky is falling! The sky is falling! For some reason, fear is the only card right wingers know how to play on Guantanamo Bay. Who cares about justice, following the law or believing in our Constitution" It's easier to run around screaming like a Chicken Little Hawk with its head cut off. Read More »
November 18, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Check out our new video featuring Scrooge, Dick Cheney and the ghosts of Torture Past and Present. Read More »
November 18, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
We're covering Attorney General Eric Holder's statements on Guantanamo Bay and other issues at today's Senate hearing! Read More »
November 17, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
He tried and he failed. Sen. James Inhofe's attempt to delay justice for Guantanamo Bay detainees by denying the funds needed to transfer them died on the Senate floor today and we at New Security Action have you to thank. Read More »
November 17, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
We're live blogging Attorney General Eric Holder's testimony to the Senate tomorrow! Holder will be testifying on the Obama Administration's plans to move and prosecute Gitmo detainees in the United States. We'll be documenting every moment on the blog! Read More »
November 17, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Sen. James Inhofe wants people to think his latest tirade against President Obama and trying Gitmo detainees in New York is about national security. Wrong. It's about politics pure and simple. All you have to do is look at Inhofe's record. He's whooping and hollering now, but throughout the Bush/Cheney Administration when 9/11 co-conspirator Zacarias Moussaoui was being tried and convicted in the U.S. he was worried about "thuggish" environmentalists, debunking climate change and making English the official language. A matter of fact, until now, Inhofe has had little to say about ANY terrorist being tried in the U.S. -- foreign or domestic. And we've got the press releases to prove it. Read More »
November 16, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Hypocrites. That's what so many conservatives are when it comes to Guantanamo Bay and the trial of detainees on U.S. soil. They cry. They moan. They say it's too dangerous. Yet when Zacarias Moussaoui, a 9/11 conspirator, was tried and convicted in the U.S. under the Bush/Cheney Administration Republicans weren't trying to stop the trail. They weren't tossing up bogus amendments to cut funds. They weren't on TV pitching a fit. They were saying ... nothing. Or in former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's case, they were praising the system for working. Funny how time (and a Democratic Administration) changes everything. Read More »
November 13, 2009 | Posted by
Justice is finally coming for 9/11 victims as the Department of Justice announces today that Khalid Shaikh Mohammad and four other suspects will be tried in federal court in New York City. But right wingers are already on the attack using fear tactics to decry this latest move that would help close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. Read More »
November 12, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
Right now the Department of Justice is trying to determine which detainees in Guantanamo (if any) will face civil trials in the U.S. versus military commissions at Gitmo. But having two forms of justice doesn’t work. Especially when one court is seen as so greatly inferior to the other. Sure, the Obama Administration made some changes to the military courts earlier this year to make them look a “little” more like the civil courts. But why would they do that? Especially when Republicans keep arguing that military commissions work so well? It's because they don’t. Read More »
November 11, 2009 | Posted by Danielle Belton
They fight everyday for us. They protect us. They defend the rights and privileges we enjoy every day. They support us, so Veteran’s Day is always a good time to remind ourselves that we need to support them right back. Read More »
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Dominic Casciani - BBC News - Jan 31
Jeffrey Kaye - Truthout - Jan 31
Josh Rogin - Foreign Policy - Jan 31
Jamie Crawford - CNN - Jan 31
AP - Jan 31
Anne Gearan, Kimberly Dozier - AP - Jan 31
Josh Rogin - Foreign Policy - Jan 26
The Gleamer - Jan 30
Peter Worthington - Toronto Sun - Jan 30