"I think you need to have someplace to hold those individuals who have been captured during the global war on terror. I'm thinking of people like Khalid Sheik Mohammed. This is a man we captured in Pakistan. He's the m
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:48pm
I realize I’ve been asleep at the proverbial switch now for a while now. Mea culpa. I just wrote the bar (hopefully that's all behind me now). In any event, some key stories from the last two weeks that habeas trackers should note.
First item: chubby detainees. Walter Isaacson, the CNN-Time Magazine honcho and Ben Franklin biographer, teased out this little gem from Karl Rove at an Aspen
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:53pm
So, there's been this weird story circulating in the press generated by the Gitmo debate about a Army reservist who signed an affidavit strongly critical of the Combatant Status Review Process.
The reservist, an Army Colonel named Steven Abraham was responsible for running a database that organized and cataloged data related to the CSRTs. He a
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 11:37am
Jackson Diehl at the Washington Post reports on the importance of positive reinforcement in Gitmo interrogation.
Yes, I was on a tour organized by the Pentagon; but no, the scene I witnessed was not a staged departure from a norm of pressure and pain. Rather, it was a sign of what five years of experience have taught Guantanamo's inter
By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:56pm
I posted about this a while ago.
A federal court convicted the Columbian FARC leader, Ricardo Palmera, two days ago for the abduction of three military contractors, held for years as de facto POWs in the Americo-Columbian campaign to interdict narcotics from the Coca-rich fiel
