The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq created a dilemma for the Bush administration: what to do with the thousands of detainees captured during the War on Terror. John Yoo, a White House lawyer, came up with a new legal argument that allowed detainees to be held indefinitely without trial. Habeas corpus was suspended, the constitution upended and Guantánamo Bay became a judicial black hole.
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‘Video of Mahmoud Khalil’s Arrest’/ACLU
‘Bush defends administration detention, interrogation policies’/Associated
Press
‘Abu Ghraib hearing’/C-SPAN
‘Rumsfeld on detainees treatment, Amnesty criticism in UK.’/Associated Press
‘Trump: “we will load up Guantanamo Bay”’/ Associated Press
‘More detainees arrive from Afghanistan at US naval base’/Associated Press
‘A DAY IN GUANTANAMO BAY’/Naval Station Guantanamo Bay
‘Judge at Guantanamo throws out second case against prisoner’/Associated Press
‘9/11 TEN YEARS AFTER: TORIE CLARKE WITH JOHN WOO’/WMAL Newstalk
‘Conversations with History’/UC Berkeley Institute of International Studies
‘Navy Lawyer Discusses Hamdan, Guantanamo’/Talk of the Nation/NPR
‘Hardball’/MSNBC Live/MSNBC
