By Gabe Rottman, Legislative Counsel, ACLU Washington Legislative Office at 3:29pm
I honestly don't know what to make of this development (though I'm ecstatic there's movement on the detainee front). We know the State Department has been pushing hard for repatriation. Guess it finally stuck.
"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 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 11:06am
I realize this is a little outside my bailiwick, but I wanted to mention one little historical footnote in relation to last week's decision in ACLU v. NSA.
At the heart of Friday's decision dismissing the ACLU's suit against the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program is the
