Archivo etiqueta «Guantánamo»
By Kal Raustiala, professor of law and director of the Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 18/01/12):
Of all the hangovers from the George W. Bush years, the thorniest may be what to do about the U.S. military prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There are still 171 detainees at Guantanamo and little consensus on what to do with them. Last spring, President Obama announced the resumption of military trials for some of those charged with participating in the 9/11 attacks. These trials, known as military commissions, have been stalled for years by legal challenges. … Seguir leyendo
By Benjamin Wittes, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the Hoover Institution’s Task Force on National Security and Law. He is the author of Detention and Denial: The Case for Candor After Guantanamo and a co-founder of the blog Lawfare (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/01/12):
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the opening of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and the hand-wringing is in high gear. There have been op-eds by former detainees, a statement by retired military personnel, denunciations of President Obama for his failure to close the … Seguir leyendo
By Karen J. Greenberg, director of the Center on National Security at Fordham University and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (THE WASHINGTON POST, 12/01/12):
Ten years after its opening, mention Guantanamo, and a thousand images emerge. Men in orange jumpsuits wearing goggles, hoods and handcuffs, hunched over in the relentless Caribbean sun; zoo-like cages, exposed to the elements, with nothing but buckets as toilets; secret areas of the prison compound where “enhanced interrogation techniques” were tested; a detainee deprived of sleep, and injected forcibly with fluids to cause swelling, until he broke; men … Seguir leyendo
By Joseph Margulies, an attorney with the MacArthur Justice Center and a law professor at Northwestern University and the author of Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. He is counsel for Abu Zubaydah, a prisoner at the base (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 11/01/12):
“I have here in my hand a list of … names.”
When Sen. Joseph McCarthy told the Ohio County Women’s Republican Club of Wheeling, W.Va., on Feb. 9, 1950, that he held a list of 205 communists employed by the State Department, he ignited a firestorm and launched a career.
We now know there was … Seguir leyendo
By Jonathan M. Hansen, a lecturer in social studies at Harvard and the author of Guantánamo: An American History (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 11/01/12):
In the 10 years since the Guantánamo detention camp opened, the anguished debate over whether to shutter the facility — or make it permanent — has obscured a deeper failure that dates back more than a century and implicates all Americans: namely, our continued occupation of Guantánamo itself. It is past time to return this imperialist enclave to Cuba.
From the moment the United States government forced Cuba to lease the Guantánamo Bay naval base … Seguir leyendo
By Lakhdar Boumediene, the lead plaintiff in Boumediene v. Bush. He was in military custody at Guantánamo Bay from 2002 to 2009. This essay was translated by Felice Bezri from the Arabic (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
On Wednesday, America’s detention camp at Guantánamo Bay will have been open for 10 years. For seven of them, I was held there without explanation or charge. During that time my daughters grew up without me. They were toddlers when I was imprisoned, and were never allowed to visit or speak to me by phone. Most of their letters were returned as … Seguir leyendo
By Murat Kurnaz, the author of Five Years of My Life: An Innocent Man in Guantánamo. He was detained from 2001 to 2006 (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 08/01/12):
I left Guantánamo Bay much as I had arrived almost five years earlier — shackled hand-to-waist, waist-to-ankles, and ankles to a bolt on the airplane floor. My ears and eyes were goggled, my head hooded, and even though I was the only detainee on the flight this time, I was drugged and guarded by at least 10 soldiers. This time though, my jumpsuit was American denim rather than Guantánamo orange. … Seguir leyendo
By Charles C. Krulak and Joseph P. Hoar, retired four-star Marine generals (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13/12/11):
In his inaugural address, President Obama called on us to “reject as false the choice between our safety and our ideals.” We agree. Now, to protect both, he must veto the National Defense Authorization Act that Congress is expected to pass this week.
This budget bill — which can be vetoed without cutting financing for our troops — is both misguided and unnecessary: the president already has the power and flexibility to effectively fight terrorism.
One provision would authorize the military … Seguir leyendo
By Joseph Margulies, a lawyer with the MacArthur Justice Center and a law professor at Northwestern University. He is the author of Guantanamo and the Abuse of Presidential Power. Now he is working on a book about the effect of Sept. 11 on national identity (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 29/09/11):
The prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is again in the news. The two Americans released this month by Iran have reported that when they complained about conditions in their Tehran prison, the jailers would “immediately remind us of comparable conditions at Guantanamo Bay.” Such is the power of symbols.… Seguir leyendo
By Clare Algar, executive director of Reprieve (THE GUARDIAN, 08/05/11):
Barack Obama‘s first executive order when he was made president called for the closure of Guantánamo Bay as quickly as possible. He didn’t follow through immediately when he had the chance – when he was still riding high on his election victory and the world was in love with him. Instead, he tried to work with the Republicans to create a bipartisan solution, an effort which failed dismally.
Now, with the killing of Osama bin Laden, President Obama again has a window in which to close this prison. … Seguir leyendo
Por Yoani Sánchez, periodista cubana y autora del blog Generación Y. Fue galardonada en 2008 con el Premio Ortega y Gasset de Periodismo. © Yoani Sánchez / bgagency-Milán (EL PAÍS, 04/05/11):
Empieza la primera mañana de mayo y el sol aún no pica tan fuerte sobre la piel, aunque ya la intolerancia parece irradiar desde su punto más alto. Con el rostro encapuchado, camisa y pantalones anaranjados, un joven intenta desfilar en la plaza de la Revolución habanera durante la celebración del Día Internacional de los Trabajadores. Tanto la indumentaria como el cartel que lleva conforman una espontánea protesta … Seguir leyendo
By William Shawcross, the author of the forthcoming Justice for the Enemy: From Nuremberg to Khaled Sheikh Mohammed (THE NEW YORK TIMES, 10/04/11):
George Orwell is usually a footsure guide across political battlegrounds. In late 1943, when the tide had turned in the Allies’ favor, he wrote about postwar trials. Oddly, he advocated Hitler and Mussolini slipping away. His verdict for them would not be death unless the Germans and Italians themselves carried out summary executions (as they eventually did in Mussolini’s case).
He wanted “no martyrizing, no St. Helena business.” Above all, he disdained the idea of a … Seguir leyendo
By David K. Shipler, the author of The Rights of the People: How Our Search for Safety Invades Our Liberties (LOS ANGELES TIMES, 10/04/11):
The system of military commissions that will try Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and four other alleged 9/11 plotters contains a dirty little secret. Hardly anybody talks about it, but it’s a key reason for concern as the apparatus becomes established.
It is this: The commissions can operate inside the United States, and they have jurisdiction over a broad range of crimes. Nothing in the Military Commissions Act limits the military trials to Guantanamo detainees, or to … Seguir leyendo
By Karen J. Greenberg, executive director of the Center on Law and Security at the New York University School of Law and the author of The Least Worst Place: Guantanamo’s First 100 Days (THE WASHINGTON POST, 08/04/11):
It’s official. Khalid Sheik Mohammed, the self-proclaimed mastermind of the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, will be tried by a military commission at Guantanamo Bay.
He will not be tried in Manhattan in the shadow of the World Trade Center. He will not be tried before the vast majority of the victims’ families. Nor will he be tried in any federal court. Instead, … Seguir leyendo
By Marisa L. Porges, an associate fellow at the London-based International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence. She served as a policy adviser in the Defense Department’s Office of Detainee Affairs from 2006 to 2008 and in the Treasury Department’s Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crime until mid-2009 (THE WASHINGTON POST, 25/02/11):
CIA Director Leon Panetta told Congress this month that if captured, Osama bin Laden would be sent to Guantanamo. This was no surprise to those who follow news of the controversial detention facility. It was, however, a concern – not because Guantanamo … Seguir leyendo