Lamberth, an appointee of President Ronald Reagan, said the government s attempt to change the rules was ''an illegitimate exercise of executive power.''
http://is.gd/CQAd0d
Another Guantánamo Prisoner Death Highlights Democrats' Hypocrisy
By Glenn Greenwald
He had been kept by the US government in a cage for many years without any opportunity to contest the accusations against him, and had no hope of leaving the camp except by death.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32417.htm
European Parliament criticises failure to investigate CIA torture and renditions
Today the European Parliament adopted by an overwhelming majority a new resolution condemning the role of European states in the CIA s secret detention and torture programme.
http://is.gd/HRp5oH
Witnesses Back Hicks on Chemical Torture
By Natalie O'Brien
Long-held claims by the former detainee David Hicks that he was drugged against his will have been backed by evidence from a prominent attorney, independent investigations and previously secret reports.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32468.htm
Guantánamo Bay: The Face of Indefinite Detention
By BAHER AZMY
Death has become an inevitable consequence of our politically driven failure to close the prison, a natural byproduct of the torment and uncertainty indefinite detention inflicts on human beings.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32461.htm
Italy Upholds Rendition Convictions For 23 Americans
By Andrea Vogt and agencies Rome
Ruling is world s first judicial review of CIA practice of abducting terror suspects and transferring them to third countries.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32503.htm
''In America Today Peace is For Sissies''
An Interview With Paul Craig Roberts on Torture
By Nilantha Ilangamuwa
Americans are overwhelmed by how great and good and moral and indispensable they are. American hubris raises Americans above everyone else in the world.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32517.htm
From Information Clearing House
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Dead Guantanamo Prisoner About Why He Gave Up on Life
John Knefel, AlterNet: ''Adnan Latif was found dead in his cell on September 10th, 2012, just a day before the eleventh anniversary of 9/11?. He suffered at the hands of the US government in ways that most people can t begin to comprehend, and his death should be a reminder that the national shame that is Guantanamo Bay lives on and now enjoys bipartisan support.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11551-dead-guantanamo-prisoner-on-why-he-gave-up-on-life
New Revelations Suggest DoD Cover-Up Over Detainee Drugging Charges
Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: ''Two new revelations, and a critical analysis of the recent Department of Defense (DoD) Inspector General (IG) report on the drugging of DoD-held detainees, reveal a cover-up of such drugging by the Pentagon and possibly other government agencies. A recent attorney s affidavit charges that at least one Guantanamo detainee was involuntarily drugged before his plea hearing at the military commissions.''
http://truth-out.org/news/item/11640-new-revelations-suggest-dod-cover-up-over-detainee-drugging-charges
Latif Letter About Guantanamo Speaks From the Grave: ''I Am Being Pushed Toward Death Every Moment''
Jason Leopold and Jeffrey Kaye, Truthout: More than two years before he was found dead in his cell at Guantanamo Bay, Adnan Farhan Abdul Latif reported that the people who oversaw his every move were facilitating his demise.
http://truth-out.org/news/item/13234-latif-letter-about-guantanamo-speaks-from-the-grave-i-am-being-pushed-toward-death-every-moment
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Ninth prisoner dies at Guantanamo
Albany Democrat-Herald
09/10/12
Another prisoner has died at the U.S. Navy base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the U.S. military said Monday, two days after the man was apparently found unconscious in his cell at the isolated, high-security prison. Guards administered first aid to the prisoner before he was rushed to a base hospital, where he was declared dead 'after extensive lifesaving measures had been performed,' the U.S. military s Southern Command said in a brief statement...
http://tinyurl.com/d6kwkm8
Eleven years after 9/11, Guantanamo is a political prison
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Andy Worthington
09/06/12
Eleven years since the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the majority of the remaining 168 men in Guantánamo are held not because they constitute an active threat to the United States, but because of inertia, political opportunism, and an institutional desire to hide evidence of torture by U.S. forces, sanctioned at the highest levels of government. That they are still held, mostly without charge or trial, is a disgrace that continues to eat away at any notion that the United States believes in justice...
http://www.fff.org/comment/com1209e.asp
Dead Gitmo detainee was cleared for release in 2009
MSNBC
09/11/12
The Guantanamo detainee found dead in his prison cell last weekend had been cleared for release three years ago by an Obama administration task force that concluded that his detention was no longer necessary, NBC News has learned. The disclosure that the detainee, Adnan Farham Abdul Latif, a 32-year-old Yemeni citizen, had been approved for repatriation could raise new questions about the handling of his case and those of scores of others held in Gitmo who also have been cleared for release...
http://tinyurl.com/9cvkrxm
The military has shamed us with Gitmo
Future of Freedom Foundation
by Jacob G. Hornberger
09/25/12
We should bear in mind what the Pentagon initially had in mind when it established its prison camp and judicial system at Guantanamo Bay after the 9/11 attacks. Its plan was to make its prison camp totally independent from any judicial review or congressional control whatsoever. It was going to be a facility that would under the total control of the military...
http://www.fff.org/blog/jghblog2012-09-25.asp
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Obama
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Pentagon
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=9/11
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terror+attack
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=executive+power
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Central+Intelligence+Agency
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=prison+camp
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=terror+suspect
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Adnan+Latif
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=David+Hicks
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Gitmo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Guantanamo
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=indefinite+detention
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=detainee
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http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Glenn+Greenwald
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andy+Worthington
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=John+Knefel
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Natalie+O'Brien
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=BAHER+AZMY
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Andrea+Vogt
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+Kaye
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Paul+Craig+Roberts
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Nilantha+Ilangamuwa
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jason+Leopold
http://www.sharenews-blog.com:8090/helma/twoday/sharenews/search?q=Jeffrey+Kaye
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