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Karl Rove Proudly Defends The Use Of Waterboarding

Karl Rove defended tough interrogation techniques such as waterboarding, saying their... more

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U.S. Told to Review Files on Terror Case Detention

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42 Arrested Protesting Obama Guantanamo Closure Failure

As one of his very first acts as president, Barack Obama signed an executive order to... more

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Indefinite Guantanamo Detentions Condemned

The American Civil Liberties Union is criticizing a recommendation that 47 Guantanamo... more

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Inmates 'Killed' at Guantanamo

US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence that three... more

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Guantánamo opens its doors to Haiti's Earthquake victims

On the day Guantanamo's prison camps were meant to close, the remote outpost... more

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JEFF GATES: How Israel Wages War on the U.S.—By Way of Deception : Veterans Today

Mass media and popular culture are powerful tools of manipulation when wielded by those skilled at waging way by way of deception. When shaping the opinion of an unsuspecting public, the star power of military leaders and sports heroes is routinely appropriated.

That duplicity was on display in February 2003 when Colin Powell gave false testimony to the U.N. Security Council that helped launch the U.S.-led invasion of a Muslim nation. Similar duplicity was deployed in May 2005 when Pakistani cricket icon Imran Khan launched from Islamabad a false story that provoked outrage at the U.S. in Muslim nations.

Since the “bread and circus” era of the Roman Empire, pop culture has proven a potent means to distract and misdirect. With the modern reach of mass media, pop culture can be deployed not just to manipulate the public’s mental state but also to promote for political office high-profile personalities such as astronauts, newscasters, war heroes and even well known comedians.

Those who induced the U.S. to wage war in Iraq on false pretenses used Secretary of State Colin Powell for that purpose when he was dispatched to the U.N. to vouch for phony intelligence. The Powell “brand” as a credible four-star general was appropriated by pro-Israeli war-planners to market the false impression that Iraq had mobile biological weapons laboratories.

By deploying a public official’s known integrity to obscure their duplicity, those complicit in this deceit discredited both Powell and the U.S. while also undermining the credibility of the U.N. The phony intelligence on which Powell relied was provided by George Tenet, Director of Central Intelligence, and vouched for by Paul Joyal, reportedly Tenet’s Ashkenazi Chief of Staff.

A similar power-of-association ploy emerged two years later when the pop culture celebrity of Imran Khan was appropriated to provoke violence worldwide that damaged the image of the U.S. A global crisis commenced soon after those handling public relations for this legend of the cricket world summoned reporters to a May 6, 2005 press conference in Islamabad.

As an international sports figure, Khan’s star power and his position as a Pakistani politician directed media attention to an April 30th issue of Newsweek where Ashkenazi journalist Michael Isikoff reported that U.S. interrogators had flushed a Koran down a toilet in an attempt to exert pressure on Muslim combatants in custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Not until May 16th did Newsweek editors publish a partial retraction along with an apology in The New York Times conceding that the widely reported story was inadequately supported by the facts. By then Isikoff’s tale of Koran desecration had gone viral.

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The story provoked massive anti-U.S. demonstrations in Pakistan, Lebanon, Egypt, Indonesia, Palestine, Jordan, Bangladesh, Sudan and Malaysia. Though the Guantanamo inmate retracted his statement, by then the story had done lasting damage to U.S. interests throughout the Islamic world while adding plausibility to the thematic Clash of Civilizations.

In game theory terms, the results were foreseeable because the reaction was mathematically predictable; the response could be projected—within an acceptable range of probabilities.Mass media and popular culture are powerful tools of manipulation when wielded by... more

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Obama Admin. Fights Afghan Prisoners' Challenge

The Obama administration is trying to prevent three prisoners who have been held for... more

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One Night In Guantanamo – Mon Jan 25th, 10PM

On Mon 25th Current TV takes you inside Guantanamo bay - the most controversial jail... more

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Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates

Why would a former Guantanamo Bay prison guard track down two of his former captives -... more

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One Night In Guantanamo – Mon Jan 25th, 10PM

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One Night In Guantanamo - Mon Jan 25th, 10PM

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Guantanamo guard reunited with ex-inmates

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John McCain - Shame on You - Detainees Don't Exist

"Senator John McCain said that, due to the nature of the crime that he attempted, Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the suspect behind the attempt to blow up Northwest Flight 253, should be tried in a military court."
Where was this former prisoner of war when our justice system was being reformed to emotional retardation by the Bush Administration? The people in Guantanamo Bay and other such hidden concentration camps have been there for ten years - most without any proof of wrongdoing. McCain spent five years as a prisoner of war - so is he striving for the evil that was shown to him? That isn't America. Even the people who have been whipped into the illogical media-induced hatred have to relize that we can't subvert common human decency

The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 was a sad attempt at re-writing the Geneva Convention for the purposes of Bush's inhumane new MADE UP classification of prisoners of war. John McCain has quickly changed his tune to urge a military trial for Abdulmutallab.
I was shocked, no just saddened, by the blatant lies that are being told to the gullible American people about "DETAINEES." There is no such thing. They are either prisoners of our "justice" system, or prisoners of war. The brainwashing term "detainee" is a gross euphemism for the bastardization of justice and the common rules of war. If we did indeed treat our supposed enemies (which without evidence, they are nothing but kid-napping victims to me) as EC's or Prisoners of War, the Guantanimo Bay would not have been seen as a viable option for other human beings. The men who implimented the attacks on the Twin Towers are DEAD. Their accomplices, IF THERE IS EVIDENCE, will be judged harshly. To deny our own honor and rules of engagment because of the emtional wound the attack caused our country is not American, but a move of a coward with a gun. We are better than that, and we need to shift the discussion from if these HUMAN BEINGS should finally recieve a small justice after ten year of illegal captivity to why we allowed Bush's half-retarded Texan justice to take over the world - AND OUR MEDIA.

Like an act that allows people to club baby seals to death called Save the Sweet Seals (made up, maybe it will become law?!) the Treatment Act of 2005 attempted to set in stone the illegal designation of these "enemies" as "detainees."
From wikipedia:
*The Detainee Treatment Act of 2005 (DTA) is an Act of the United States Congress that prohibits inhumane treatment of prisoners, including prisoners at Guantanamo Bay; requires military interrogations to be performed according to the U.S. Army Field Manual for Human Intelligence Collector Operations; and strips federal courts of jurisdiction to consider habeas corpus petitions filed by prisoners in Guantanamo, or other claims asserted by Guantanamo detainees against the U.S. government, as well as limiting appellate review of decisions of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals and Military Commissions.[1] On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court, in the case of Boumediene v. Bush, ruled 5-4 that the Military Commissions Act of 2006 unconstitutionally limited detainee's access to judicial review and that detainees have the right to challenge their detention in conventional civilian courts.*

- This was all a catch 22 as allowing the detainee classification was a loophole to avoid any justice for whomever was caught in the "terrorist" trolling nets. Wake up

Now the Obama administration is trying to wade through the sea of made-up legal terms and many prisoners that have no proof against them except their country of origin. To give someone a trail before punishing them is an American value. We cannot continue to dissolve into evil fascists because of brainwashing provided by the disastrous Bush Administration. So to Obama, thank you - please continue to restore justice."Senator John McCain said that, due to the nature of the crime that he attempted,... more

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Closing Gitmo and the New Terrorist Threat

Article about the logic and consequences of the Gitmo closure.

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Guantanamo Was "Hell On Earth": Former Gitmo Detainee | | AlterNet

The story of an innocent man and what happened to himself and friends while in Gitmo.

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The Torture of Two Innocent Men Who Just Left Guantanamo | | AlterNet

This is a sad and sick story. Is this who we are, America?

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Guantanamo prison may have to stay open until 2011

WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by next month may be delayed until 2011 because it will take months for the government to buy an Illinois prison and upgrade it to hold suspected terrorists.
The drawn-out construction timetable shows the political risk of Obama's pledge, a delay that could even be extended by congressional opposition to funding the purchase and upgrades for the Thomson Correctional Center, an underused state facility about 150 miles west of Chicago.
Lawmakers in both parties have been wary of bringing detainees to the United States. Attorney General Eric Holder already has decided that self-declared 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four others will be tried in federal court in New York City.
In the Senate, a spokesman for Republican leader Mitch McConnell promised that the GOP would use delaying tactics to prevent funding the Illinois facility and added that he expected support from Democrats.
"I think there will be bipartisan opposition" to bringing detainees to Illinois, Donald Stewart said.
Congress also needs to change a law prohibiting detention in the U.S. of detainees who are not awaiting trial.
The prison in rural western Illinois may not be purchased from the state until March and will need up to 10 months of construction, said Joe Shoemaker, spokesman for Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill.
Shoemaker said, "The end of 2010 or the start of 2011 has always been the mark the administration talked to us about."
Obama originally said Guantanamo would close Jan. 22, 2010. While that date proved unrealistic, the president has directed administration officials to move quickly to acquire the maximum-security prison in Illinois.
White House spokesman Ben LaBolt on Wednesday would not say when Guantanamo would close.
"The president remains as committed today to closing the detention facility at Guantanamo as he was when he entered office, and substantial progress has been made in recent weeks," LaBolt told The Associated Press. "The detainee population at Guantanamo is now smaller than it has been at any time since 2002.
"We will work with Congress to ensure that we secure the necessary funds to purchase and upgrade the Thomson prison — which will operate at a substantially lower cost to taxpayers — next year," he said.
The failure to meet the timetable may have cost White House counsel Greg Craig his job, since Craig, who is leaving next month, was heading the effort to close the facility.
In addition to any appropriations struggles, current federal law requires that detainees can only be housed in the United States while their trials are pending. That law would have to be changed to cover detainees who have not yet been charged and will not be sent abroad. The change would have to specify that detainees could be kept on U.S. soil for any purpose.
The Justice Department said last weekend that since 2002, more than 560 detainees have departed the military prison in Cuba and 198 remain.
"We're hitting the anticipated bumps" in the timetable for using the Illinois facility, Shoemaker said.
He added that many lawmakers would not vote to change the law or provide the funds until the administration submits a comprehensive plan on the handling of the remaining prisoners.
Federal officials tried on Tuesday to allay fears that moving terror suspects from Guantanamo to Illinois could make the state a terrorist target.
The director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons, Harley Lappin, told a state legislative panel that a new perimeter fence and other measures would make Thomson "the most secure of all federal prisons in the country."
The 12-member Commission on Government Forecasting and Accountability could vote on a recommendation to sell the prison that skirts the Mississippi River, but Gov. Pat Quinn does not have to follow the recommendation.WASHINGTON – President Barack Obama's commitment to close the U.S.... more

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Obama puts off Gitmo closure until after 2011

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Supreme Court Rejects Torture Case

The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected an appeal by four former Guantanamo Bay prisoners... more

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