December 16, 2015It has been two and a half years since Edward Snowden’s disclosures revealed the massive scope of our government’s bulk surveillance of global telecommunications. The first document to be published...
February 1, 2016Recently we passed another sad milestone in the history of the Guantánamo prison: as of Sunday, January 31st, President Obama has kept Guantánamo open for longer than President Bush did. The standard...
April 28, 2016It’s now been nine months since the first news stories were published about a cancer cluster, possibly linked to the presence of environmental toxins, afflicting lawyers and other staff at the...
September 27, 2016In the days after the 9/11 attacks, Congress was asked to give President Bush the authority to use the military “to deter and preempt any future acts of terrorism or aggression against the United...
November 4, 2016CCR's Aliya Hussain and Shayana Kadidal report live from Guantanamo about their visits with CCR clients Ghaleb Al-Bihani and Sufyian Barhoumi . Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on YouTube.
December 28, 2016As President Obama’s terms in office come to an end, eight years after he entered office he has yet to deliver on one of his most prominent campaign promises: to close the prison at Guantánamo Bay...
TRT World travels to Guantanamo...
Updated: September 8, 2021
Is the Trump administration attempting to erase history? On Friday, congressional officials confirmed the administration has begun returning to Congress copies of the Senate’s explosive 2014 report...
Updated: June 5, 2017
Fired FBI Director James Comey testified Thursday that President Trump tried to derail an investigation into National Security Adviser Michael Flynn’s links to Russia, and accused Trump of lying...
Updated: June 9, 2017
August 17, 2017CCR has a long history of challenging overbroad and warrantless government surveillance, something that has ballooned since 9/11. Last week, we filed an amicus brief asking the Supreme Court to grant...
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