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Here is what the business looks like, separate and apart from the brutality documented at Abu Ghraib prison: since 9/11, according to U.S. officials and former prisoners, detainees under U.S. supervision in Iraq, Afghanistan and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and at undisclosed other locations have been stripped naked, covered with hoods, deprived of sleep and light, and made to stand or sit in painful positions for extended periods. Some have been drugged. Sexual humiliation is not unheard of. Even the Federal Bureau of Prisons has lent a hand in this enterprise. According to a Justice Department inspector-general's report, Muslim...
...Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, has been suspended. Attorneys for the accused say their clients were only following orders to soften up the prisoners for interrogation and that the guards are being made scapegoats. Major General Geoffrey Miller, the former head of operations at the detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is now running the prison...
...smash single Stills penned, they don’t realize that they’re singing the catch phrases of radical politics. Take another listen: after seven-odd minutes of folky guitar licks, pitch-perfect harmonies and snatches of soul-baring poetry, Stills starts crooning something in Spanish about Cuba...
...Supreme Court is scheduled to hear oral arguments this week about whether the 595 detainees held at the Guantanamo Bay naval base in Cuba may challenge their captivity in federal court. It's one of three cases on the court's docket this month that strike at a linchpin of the Bush Administration's counterterrorism policy: that a wartime President may assert sweeping executive authority in the interest of national security. By late June, the court may issue key rulings on separation-of-powers issues, such as whether U.S. citizens can be locked up indefinitely without court review...
...asked me to go back to Cuba and re-balance things. Instead, I ended up making another movie. I understand what HBO did. I went back with the same crew, and Castro generously gave us another 30 hours in which we filmed a much more intense, more narrow discussion about the dissidents. I questioned him as hard as I possibly could. He responded clearly to the world's condemnation, and you see a man who comes across to many as rigid and unbending...