Combatant Status Review Tribunals

In an attempt to separate fact from fiction, I'd like to offer my advice, based on the three years I have spent studying Guantanamo in unprecedented detail.

Obama the presidential candidate has been almost silent on the crimes of the current administration.

As with justice, logic is in short supply in the executive's approach to terror suspects, who have been deprived of the protections of the Geneva Conventions to make false confessions.

The US administration's basis for holding prisoners without charge or trial in the "War on Terror" belongs in a fantasy world. At the heart of this fantasy world are the Combatant Status Review Tribunals.

Parhat v. Gates is another significant challenge to executive overreach. Parhat is one of 18 Uighur detainees who fled persecution in China and was arrested in Pakistan with no evidence against him.

Those who cherish historical adherence to the rule of law were delighted to hear that the Supreme Court ruled that prisoners at Guantánamo now have the right to challenge the basis of their detention.

For the five Afghans who returned home on the same flight as al-Jazeera journalist Sami al-Haj and the other three prisoners described in my previous ...

Ahmed Ghailani is the sixth of the 14 so-called "high-value detainees" -- those held in secret, CIA-run prisons, who were transferred to Guantánamo in September 2006 -- to be put forward for trial.

Abdul Razzaq Hekmati helped free three significant anti-Taliban commanders from a Taliban jail in 1999, but no significant effort was made by Guantánamo to verify his story prior to his death.

If elected president, Hillary Clinton would ask the Justice Department to determine if alleged 9/11 plotters currently held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, c...

I can only hope that this administration's disdain for the law and for human suffering will help the justices to rule for the detainees, and that in the meantime Mr. al-Ghizzawi does not die in Guantanamo,

Tomorrow's hearing is of colossal importance, not only to the detainees in Guantánamo, many of whom are about to start their seventh year of imprisonment without charge or trial, but also to the government.

Surely the Court will not decide on Dec. 5 that Bush has succeeded in placing the detainees beyond the reach of our federal courts by sending them to Guantánamo.

We hope the Supreme Court will stand up to the Bush administration's assertion of unbridled executive power and rule that no president has the power to detain people indefinitely without a fair hearing before a federal judge.

The administration's response to this failure to extract information from the detainees was to instigate a grotesque system of punishments and rewards, where torture became a substitute for the gathering of intel.