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03/18/2010

The Big Lie About Guantánamo Lawyers

By Jonathan Hafetz, National Security Project at 11:11am

(Originally posted on Huffington Post.)

The recent attacks on lawyers who have worked on behalf of Guantánamo detainees have employed the tactic of the "Big Lie" — that is, a lie so colossal that people will believe it because no one could possibly have the impudence to distort the truth so grossly.

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12/22/2009

Guantánamo Beyond Guantánamo

By Jonathan Hafetz, National Security Project at 3:00pm

(Originally posted on Huffington Post.)

President Obama's planned transfer of some Guantánamo Bay detainees to Thomson, Illinois, might bring the administration nearer to its goal of closing the infamous off-shore prison. But, from all indications, it will do little to end the unlawful detention system Guantánamo embodies.

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10/08/2008

Guantánamo at Home

By Jonathan Hafetz, National Security Project at 5:36pm

The Bush administration has long defended its prison at Guantánamo by claiming that the Constitution did not apply there because it was located outside the United States. But newly disclosed government documents obtained by Yale Law School's Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic and the ACLU under the Freedom of Information Act reveal that the administration was secretly trying to extend Guantánamo's lawless system to this country.

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10/07/2008

Judge Orders Government to Free Innocent Men

By Jonathan Hafetz, National Security Project at 5:13pm

In a landmark ruling, a federal district judge in Washington, D.C., today ordered the government to release a group of 17 Chinese Muslims held at Guantánamo Bay. The decision marks the first time a judge has ordered the government to free a prisoner from Guantánamo and delivers a powerful blow to the Bush administration's illegal and misguided detention policy.

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