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US public diplomacy chief defends Gitmo prison on Arab junket
Echoing views expressed by US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld last week, US Undersecretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs and one-time top Bush aide Karen Hughes Monday defended US practices at Guantanamo Bay and rejected t (More) |
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Former Navy lawyer warned officials that legal theories could breed detainee abuse
Former US Navy General Counsel Alberto J. Mora warned the Pentagon as early as 2002 that legal arguments advanced by Bush administration officials seeking to avoid international prohibitions against torture were wrong and could lead to the abuse of (More) |
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Rumsfeld rejects UN call to close Guantanamo
In comments after a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations Friday, US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld flatly rejected the United Nation's call for the US to shut down its military detention facility at Guantanamo Bay , asserting that (More) |
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Annan calls for closing Guantanamo in wake of UN report
United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has called for the United States to close its Guantanamo Bay detention facility as soon as possible, reiterating the conclusions of a 54 page report [PDF text; press release] released Thursday by a UN-ap (More) |
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US dismisses UN call to close Guantanamo Bay prison camp
The United States has dismissed as a "discredit to the UN" a report [PDF text; press release] released Thursday by UN special rapporteurs making up the Working Group on Arbitrary Detention of the UN Commission on Human Rights calling on t (More) |
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DOJ: Guantanamo inmates cannot use Constitution to challenge detention
Lawyers for the US Department of Justice have told the US Supreme Court that inmates held at Guantanamo Bay cannot challenge their detention by relying on the US Constitution because "the Constitution does not guarantee aliens held abroad a r (More) |
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UN report alleges US torture at Guantanamo
Five United Nations rights experts have concluded that detainees being held at the US prison base in Guantanamo Bay have been subjected to physical and mental abuse amounting to torture in some cases, according to an unreleased draft report obtain (More) |
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German authorities negotiating for release of Guantanamo detainee
German officials are in talks with their US counterparts for the release of a German-born man who has been held in Guantanamo Bay for almost four years. Murat Kurnaz [Amnesty International case sheet; chronology, PDF], a Turkish national, was detai (More) |
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Drastic force-feeding measures push Gitmo hunger strike to lowest point
The number of detainees still on hunger strike at the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay has dropped to four, military officials said Wednesday. The head military spokesman at Guantanamo also said that prison officials have been using tougher fo (More) |
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Abu Ghraib dogs to be focus of Senate probe
The US Senate Committee on Armed Services will investigate conflicting reports about the use of dogs in abusing detainees at the US military prison of Abu Ghraib . Chairman Sen. John Warner (R-VA) said that the committee will look into disparate s (More) |
John Marshall declared federal judicial supremacy over states
On February 20, 1809, US Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall ruled in United States v. Peters that the legal power of the federal judiciary is greater than that of any individual state: "If the legislatures of the several states may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy rights acquired under those judgments, the constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery; and the nation is deprived of the means of enforcing its laws by the instrumentality of its own tribunals."
