Comments on: Bush Era Ends With Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession

By: Torture Whitewash: How “Professional Misconduct” Became “Poor Judgment” in the OPR Report « freedetainees.org

Wed, 24 Feb 2010 01:57:02 +0000

[...] 2009), Judge Orders Release of Guantánamo’s Forgotten Child (Mohammed El-Gharani, January 2009), Bush Era Ends With Guantánamo Trial Chief’s Torture Confession (Susan Crawford on Mohammed al-Qahtani, January 2009), Forgotten in Guantánamo: British Resident [...]

By: Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions « Dandelion Salad

Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions « Dandelion Salad — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 01:14:00 +0000

[...] use by the CIA, or, in the case of the military, through “enhanced interrogation techniques” approved by defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld for use at Guantánamo, which later migrated to [...]

By: Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions « roger hollander

Bagram: Graveyard of the Geneva Conventions « roger hollander — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 19:43:34 +0000

[...] the CIA, or, in the case of the military, through “enhanced interrogation techniques” approved by Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld for use at Guantanamo, which later migrated to [...]

By: Why Obama Must Continue Releasing Yemenis From Guantánamo « freedetainees.org

Thu, 31 Dec 2009 05:15:28 +0000

[...] techniques,” which “met the legal definition of torture,” according to Susan Crawford, the Convening Authority for Guantánamo’s military commissions, who explained to Bob [...]

By: Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Loses Job For Criticizing Military Commissions by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 09 Dec 2009 00:30:45 +0000

[...] held accountable for its crimes (and who are keen to follow the chain of command from Haynes, via Susan Crawford, the Commissions’ Convening Authority, to Dick Cheney and David Addington), but it also provides [...]

By: New Book: The Guantánamo Lawyers – and a talk by Jonathan Hafetz by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 01 Nov 2009 05:42:32 +0000

[...] is about prisoners like Mohammed al-Qahtani, the Saudi citizen who became a guinea pig for the use of so-called “enhanced interrogation [...]

By: Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram on al-Jazeera « freedetainees.org

Andy Worthington Discusses Bagram on al-Jazeera « freedetainees.org — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 06:56:15 +0000

[...] abusive “enhanced interrogation techniques” — or, in other words, to techniques that may well meet the legal definition of torture — until he falsely confessed that he had met Osama bin Laden and was involved with [...]

By: Judge Confirms That an Innocent Man Was Tortured to Make False Confessions | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:07:59 +0000

[...] applied to at least 100 prisoners in Guantánamo between 2002 and 2004, above and beyond those like Mohammed al-Qahtani and Mohamedou Ould Slahi, whose stories are well-known. Many of these men — all the [...]

By: A Truly Shocking Guantánamo Story: Judge Confirms That An Innocent Man Was Tortured To Make False Confessions by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:10:54 +0000

By: Judge Orders Release from Gitmo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net

Sat, 19 Sep 2009 17:05:55 +0000

[...] in the Bush administration’s Military Commission system (overseen by the Convening Authority Susan Crawford, a protégée of Dick Cheney and a close friend of David Addington), and advanced mindlessly [...]