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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No...
First off, the President has lost none of his oratorical powers. His national security speech today, in which he sought — and, I think, largely found — the correct balance with regard to the horrendous...
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A US Veteran Savages Cheney’s Lies
This wonderful condemnation of Dick Cheney’s hypocrisy and lies was posted as a comment on my site yesterday, in response to the speeches delivered by Barack Obama and the former Vice President on...
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In the Guardian: Spies, Lies and Threats in Binyam Mohamed’s Case
For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “More twists in the tale of Binyam Mohamed” is an article I wrote looking at recent developments in the case of British resident, former Guantánamo prisoner and...
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Did Hillary Clinton Threaten UK Over Binyam Mohamed Torture Disclosure?
I only ask because two weeks ago, as part of a long-running court case in which Binyam Mohamed, former Guantánamo prisoner and victim of “extraordinary rendition” and torture, is trying to persuade the...
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Guantánamo And The Many Failures Of US Politicians
In the summer of 2002, as Jane Mayer described it in her book The Dark Side, “The CIA, concerned by the paucity of valuable information emanating from [Guantánamo], dispatched a senior intelligence...
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In the Guardian: The global reach of Britain’s torture policy
For the Guardian’s Comment is free, “Outsourcing torture to foreign climes” is an article I wrote following up on Ian Cobain’s article in today’s Guardian exposing the story of Jamil Rahman, a British...
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Life After Guantánamo: Lakhdar Boumediene Speaks
So many of the stories relating to Guantánamo are bleak that I thought it was worth mentioning a recent interview with Lakhdar Boumediene, who was released from Guantánamo two weeks ago after seven...
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Forgotten: The Second Anniversary Of A Guantánamo Suicide
Today, unnoticed in the Western media (although I can’t vouch for the Arabic world) is the second anniversary of the death at Guantánamo — apparently by suicide — of Abdul Rahman al-Amri, a Saudi...
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Guantánamo: Two Years of Blogging, A Million Words In The Archive
Happy birthday to me! It’s exactly two years since, after putting the manuscript for my book The Guantánamo Files to bed, and wandering around in a post-book completion daze for two weeks, I was...
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Free The Guantánamo Uighurs!
On Friday, court-watchers received some deeply depressing news — 33 pages of unconstitutional hogwash directed at the Supreme Court by President Obama’s Justice Department (PDF), in which no stone of...
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