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It's 4 years since the bammerz said he would have it closed by now. Huge disappointment for me personally, and it looks like I am not the only one. Full article at outstanding website mintpress.net.
New York (MintPress) – Exactly 11 years after the opening of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp and four years after newly-installed President Barack Obama signed an order to suspend the work of the military commission, the White House has now shut down the office that was working on closing GITMO.
The State Department reassigned Daniel Fried — the special diplomatic envoy whose job it was to repatriate and resettle the detainees — to the position of coordinator for sanctions policy. His responsibilities will be assumed by the office of the department’s legal adviser.
“It’s too soon to draw conclusions from this development, but it cannot be used as an excuse for the Obama administration to continue to keep Guantanamo open and to continue to deny human rights there,” Zeke Johnson, director of Amnesty International’s U.S. Security and Human Rights Campaign, tells Mint Press News.It's 4 years since the bammerz said he would have it closed by now. Huge... more
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Setback for Obama as first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian court is convicted on just one of 285 chargesSetback for Obama as first former Guantánamo detainee to be tried in civilian... more
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In this season of Vanguard, correspondent Kaj Larsen once again takes up a controversial subject that hits close to home -- whether veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars who suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder may be more likely to commit violent crimes after returning home from combat.
"War Crimes" premieres Wednesday, July 7, at 10/9c on Current TV.
Larsen was trained how to deal with waterboarding as a Navy SEAL, but a day off while on assignment for Current in Cambodia led him to put himself through the controversial interrogation technique once more. In this exclusive Vanguard extra, Kaj talks about the legacy of waterboarding that dates back to the Khmer Rouge and the impact his story had on the policy debate.
Watch "Getting Waterboarded": http://current.com/shows/vanguard/76347282_getting-waterboarded.htm
"Vanguard," airing weekly on Current TV Wednesdays at 10/9c, is a no-limits documentary series whose award-winning correspondents put themselves in extraordinary situations to immerse viewers in global issues that have a large social significance. Unlike sound-bite driven reporting, the show's correspondents, Adam Yamaguchi, Kaj Larsen, Christof Putzel and Mariana van Zeller, serve as trusted guides who take viewers on in-depth real life adventures in pursuit of some of the world's most important stories.
For more, go to http://current.com/vanguard.In this season of Vanguard, correspondent Kaj Larsen once again takes up a... more
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As one of his very first acts as president, Barack Obama signed an executive order to close the military prison for terror suspects within a year. The one-year mark came and went last week, but the prison remains open. Obama has not offered a new deadline. In Washington, DC, 42 activists with Witness Against Torture were arrested while protesting the missed deadline.As one of his very first acts as president, Barack Obama signed an executive order to... more
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The American Civil Liberties Union is criticizing a recommendation that 47 Guantanamo Bay inmates should be held indefinitely without trial. The recommendation came as the deadline President Obama had set on his second day in office for closing the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay passed.The American Civil Liberties Union is criticizing a recommendation that 47 Guantanamo... more
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US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence that three Guantánamo Bay inmates could have been murdered during interrogations, according to a six-month investigation by journalists.
The joint investigation for Harper's Magazine and NBC News concluded that all three may have been suffocated during questioning on the same evening and their deaths passed off as suicides by hanging.US government officials may have conspired to conceal evidence that three... more
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