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/ Associated Press / Guantanamo judge invites Pentagon brass to clear up role in female guard controversy
/ Carol Rosenberg / Miami Herald / Alleged 9/11 plotter’s lawyers ask prosecutor, judge to quit trial over destruction of evidence
/ Ben Norton / Salon / “Tomorrow we carry on his work”: Journalists, activists mourn death of human rights lawyer Michael Ratner
/ Jess Bravin / Wall Street Journal / Critical Evidence May Have Been Destroyed, Sheikh Mohammed Lawyers Say
/ Sam Roberts / New York Times / Michael Ratner, Lawyer Who Won Rights for Guantánamo Prisoners, Dies at 72
/ David Cole / The Nation / Michael Ratner, 1943–2016
/ Andrew V. Pestano / UPI / Classified information related to 9/11 suspect in Guantanamo spilled
/ David Cole / Will These 2 Court Cases Finally Hold Our Torturers Accountable?
/ Carol Rosenberg / Miami Herald / Parole board approves Yemeni’s release from Guantánamo on fifth review
/ Rupert Stone / Newsweek / Science shows that torture doesn’t work
/ Dr. Harold Pease, Syndicated Columnist / Trump Advocacy of Enhanced Interrogation Still Feels Wrong
/ Heather Brandon / Lawfare / Will Obama’s Targeted Killing Policy Say What “Areas of Active Hostilities” Means?
/ Charlie Savage / The New York Review of Books / General Hayden’s Offensive
/ Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News (Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy) / Archivist Won’t Call “Torture Report” a Permanent Record
/ Ben Norton / Salon / Jeremy Scahill, Glenn Greenwald blast U.S. drone war and “assassination complex,” say liberals would never let a Republican get away with Obama’s crimes
/ Adelma Jakupovic / Human Rights First / Gitmo Review Board Hears Case of Alleged Bin Laden Bodyguard In Second Hearing Of The Week
/ Adam Jacobson / Human Rights First / Senator Durbin Corrects the Record on Gitmo
/ Britain Eakin / Courthouse News Service / Amid Clashing Evidence, Gitmo Board Told of Cats
/ Washington's Blog / Centre for Research on Globalization / 9/11 Kangaroo Court Trials: What We Really Know About the Alleged 9/11 “Masterminds”
/ Sam Biddle / Gawker / The Classified Home Movies of Guantanamo Bay
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