Today's Fresh Blogs...

• PBS's NOW: New legal hope for Guantanamo detainees?

  Published: August 3, 2007, 1:25 pm

  Tags: Pbs, Gitmo Abu Ghraib

  PBS’s NOW: A strong blow to the Bush Administration’s detainee policy, and the military lawyer who dealt it. On Friday, August 3 at 8:30 pm (check local listings), David Brancaccio talks with Lieutenant Commander Charles Swift, whose Supreme Court victory on behalf of his client, a Guantanamo Bay detainee, successfully challenged the

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• John Edwards: No more secret prisons, no more torture or condoning torture.

  Published: September 3, 2007, 6:42 pm

  Tags: John Edwards, Torture, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Alberto Gonzales

  (h/t CorrenteWire.) This is what I’d call a good start. What about the Presidential power grab of the Bush/Gonzales cabal? No more secret prisons and torture, sure, but let’s add to that: no more signing statements, no more evading Congress, no more no-bid government contracts to companies that clearly have

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• GQ's Chat with Donald Rumsfeld

  Published: September 12, 2007, 10:15 pm

  Tags: Gop, Interviews, Donald Rumsfeld, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Iraq

  Donald Rumsfeld, interviewed at his Taos ranch by GQ Magazine: “In terms of what’s going on in Iraq or Afghanistan today, what the Department of Defense is doing is working. What isn’t working is the diplomatic side. The government of Iraq has not been able to find ways to bring the elements of that country together

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• Gitmo Prisoner Close To Death

  Published: September 14, 2007, 2:33 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib

  The Independent UK: An al-Jazeera journalist captured in Afghanistan six years ago and sent to Guantanamo Bay is close to becoming the fifth detainee at the US naval base to take his own life, according to a medical report written by a team of British and American psychiatrists Sami al-Haj, a Sudanese national, is 250 days into a hunger strike

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• Cafferty: Leaked Inside Look At Guantanamo A Little Scary'

  Published: November 17, 2007, 2:34 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Jack Cafferty, The Situation Room Wolf Blitzer

  besides, if they were in Gitmo they must have been really, really bad guys who deserved never to see the light of day anyway or they wouldn’t have been there in the first place, right? So why are so many of Jack’s emailers still so worked up about it?

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• Suicide As A P.R. Tactic To Make U.S. Look Bad?

  Published: December 5, 2007, 6:39 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib, War Coverage

  The callousness and lack of empathy necessary to float such an idea is the definition of sociopathy. It will be interesting to see how the Supreme Court will interpret such a take as they are hearing cases today on detainees’ rights.  Shakespeare’s Sister has the story: I heard this story on the BBC International morning

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• Huckabee: Gitmo is too nice

  Published: December 22, 2007, 12:01 pm

  Tags: Election 08, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Gitmo, Mike Huckabee

  The man of God thinks Gitmo is way too nice. And it’s only going to get worse from here: According to Bob Wickers, Huckabee media consultant and mastermind of the “Chuck Norris Facts” commercial, the new ad will be intregal to the campaign and “consistant with who he is and how faith informs who he is”. Expect

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• Rotten To The Core

  Published: February 4, 2008, 8:50 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib

  In all the furor over primaries, polls and presidential candidates, I wanted to call your attention to a very important set of hearings going on right now and where you can get more information on it.    Daily Kos:  Even as the attention of most Americans and a large part of the rest of the world is focused on

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• FBI Clean Team Scrubbed Torture Evidence For 9/11 Death Penalty Cases

  Published: February 12, 2008, 4:30 pm

  Tags: Ethics, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Investigations, Justice Department, Terrorism, Torture

  They tried to “un-torture” the 9/11 terror detainees in an attempt to “ensure that the data would not be tainted by allegations of torture or illegal coercion” so they can seek the death penalty against them. WaPo: Cleansing' the case Prosecutors and top administration officials essentially wanted to cleanse the

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• What's On Your Ipod?

  Published: February 27, 2008, 2:16 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib

  Mother Jones has “The Torture Playlist” (h/t MBH) Music has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep deprivation, “prolong capture shock,” disorient detainees during interrogations and also drown out screams.

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• Countdown's Bushed!: Avoiding Cites, Taxes and Legal Convictions of Terrorists

  Published: March 7, 2008, 3:45 pm

  Tags: Countdown Keith Olbermann, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Scandals, White House

  Download   Play  Download   Play (h/t Heather) So much hackery, so little time. Thursday’s edition of Bushed! includes a return visit of Timothy Goeglein, the former White House aide who was fired after it was discovered that he had liberally plagiarized from various publications for op-eds of his own. It

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• The Stuff of Life

  Published: April 26, 2008, 9:00 am

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Government Policy, Torture

  Unite against human rights abuses in the war on terror. Find out how at unsubscribe-me.org

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• DOJ Inspector General Report: FBI Concerns About Torture Ignored

  Published: May 20, 2008, 9:15 pm

  Tags: Freedom Of Information, Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Government Policy, John Conyers, Justice Department, Torture

  FBI from investigating the abuses its agents witnessed. For those interested, here is Chairman Conyers’ response (via email, after the jump) “While I take comfort in knowing that, for the most part, FBI field agents followed the agency’s policies regarding interrogations, I find it very disturbing that many senior FBI and

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• BREAKING: Supreme Court Backs Gitmo Detainees; 5-4 Decision Against Bush Administration- UPDATED with VIDEO

  Published: June 12, 2008, 11:30 am

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib, Supreme Court

  Download   Play    Download   Play  (h/t David)  MSNBC: The Supreme Court has ruled that foreign terrorism suspects held at Guantanamo Bay have rights under the U.S. Constitution to challenge their detention in civilian courts. The justices, in a 5-4 ruling Thursday (.pdf), handed the Bush

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• The Justice Department Looking For Lawyers To Handle Habeas Cases

  Published: July 10, 2008, 7:00 pm

  Tags: Gitmo Abu Ghraib

  Law.com: At the time of the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Boumediene v. Bush three weeks ago, the Justice Department had four lawyers devoted to handling about 250 Guantanamo Bay habeas cases. Now that the high court has cleared the way for detainees to challenge their captivity in the U.S. District Court for the District

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