Jamese Mitchell News Today

The military court at Guantánamo faces a new challenge as key witnesses die, become too sick to travel or no longer remember details.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba — A defense lawyer asked a military judge Monday to dismiss the Sept. 11 conspiracy charges against a Saudi prisoner who was tortured in CIA custody, describing the secret overseas prison network where the man was held as part of a “vast criminal international enterprise” that trafficked in torture.

A psychologist working for the C.I.A. had threatened while interrogating Khalid Shaikh Mohammed to kill one of his preteen sons. But they were never in U.S. custody.

Abu Zubaydah was the first prisoner waterboarded by the C.I.A. He has never faced charges at Guantánamo Bay.

The rate of this disorder was found to be 2.5 times higher among those who had gastric bypass surgery compared with a control group.

Prosecutors enlisted the full-time legal consultant to counter claims that a Saudi prisoner accused in the bombing of the destroyer Cole was in a state of “learned helplessness” at Guantánamo Bay.

Lawyers for a Saudi prisoner had the psychologist show some of his practices in an effort to exclude evidence as derived from torture.

There are many ways to define what is a political prisoner. The most well-known cases are those the national security state framed-up, or imprisoned with extreme sentences for an offense because of their political activism, such as George Jackson. Each period of struggle by the working class and oppressed peoples against ruling class control results some

By Philip GIRALDI Quite likely a majority of Americans would agree that it is wrong for the government or police to torture someone, though some…

Quite likely a majority of Americans would agree that it is wrong for the government or police to torture someone, though some would surely accept the "ticking time bomb" exemption, where a detainee is withholding information that could save many...