April 2015American military doctrine is clear: when a superior officer identifies a lawful strategic objective, forces under his or her command must work to achieve it without delay. When it comes to...
June 2, 2015The U.S. Central Intelligence Agency used a wider array of sexual abuse and other forms of torture than was disclosed in a Senate report last year, according to a Guantanamo Bay detainee turned...
Shocking new details have emerged about how the CIA tortured a former resident of Baltimore, Maryland, who has been in U.S. detention since 2003, first at a CIA black site, then at Guantánamo. Majid...
Updated: September 8, 2021
The U.S. government begins to allow torture victims like Majid Khan to discuss their accounts while in CIA custody...
Updated: June 16, 2015
June 22, 2015"We're going to beat you up, son." "Son, we're going to take care of you. We are going to send you to a place you cannot imagine." Majid Khan's interrogators meant what they said. In newly...
October 14, 2015President Obama's efforts to close Guantánamo suffered a serious blow recently. Congress passed an annual defense authorization bill that includes new, strict requirements for transferring detainees...
There are 107 prisoners still being held, 48 have been cleared for release but they're not going anywhere anytime soon. Wells Dixon discusses. Trouble seeing the video? Watch it on aljazeera.com .
Updated: December 11, 2015
Fordham Law School hosted a discussion on the policy challenges, legal concerns, and security considerations relating to the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility.
Updated: April 7, 2017
November 15, 2015J. Wells Dixon moved to New York from Hartford on Sept. 11, 2001, to start a job as an associate at Kramer Levin Frankel & Naftalis. At the time, he says, he could never have imagined that 14...
April 13, 2016Amid a news cycle crowded with reports about Republican fearmongering and the Obama Administration’s bureaucratic paralysis on closing Guantánamo, a local news article last week from Fort Wayne,...
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