by Spencer Ackerman | May 22, 2013 | Monitor
Obama has a chance to clear up four major areas of ambiguity about the seemingly endless war on terrorism in his forthcoming speech. We’ll see.
by Spencer Ackerman | Jan 24, 2013 | Monitor
Pretty much the only people who want the CIA’s old post-9/11 torture chambers to remain intact are the 9/11 conspirators tortured in them. They need them for trial evidence.
by Spencer Ackerman | Nov 29, 2012 | Monitor
Think you can’t close Guantanamo Bay? A new congressional study prompted by a powerful Senator found up to 104 places inside the U.S. to put Gitmo detainees. It’s just going to take some major modifications.
by Noah Shachtman and Spencer Ackerman | Oct 11, 2012 | Monitor
The Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Photo: U.S. Army The idea of closing down Guantanamo Bay and transferring its detainee population to the United States was supposed to be dead. But someone forgot to tell Congress’ independent research agency. At the behest...
by Robert Beckhusen | Jul 11, 2012 | Monitor
U.S. Army soldiers inside a cell block at Camp Five at the Joint Task Force Guantanamo detention center on Nov. 14, 2006. Photo: Army Prisoners inside the U.S. military’s detention center at Guantanamo Bay were forcibly given “mind altering drugs,”...
