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Showing videos filed under: GitMo
WikiLeaks Guantanamo Files, Shirin Ebadi, and South Carolina Tea Party
April 25, 2011"The real issue is who was actually at Guantanamo, how were they treated, and this revelation gives us another chance to look at that," says Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, who joins Laura in studio to discuss the latest disclosures from WikiLeaks--nearly 800 files on the detainees at the infamous Guantanamo Bay detention facility.The F Word: Guantanamo Files Show Media Priorities
April 25, 2011As I perused the latest WikiLeaks releases this morning, a retweet from their Twitter feed caught my eye: “Gitmo: Compare the first paragraph of these two stories about the same thing.” One was a link to the BBC and one was CNN.Vince Warren: Big Government But Failure to Restore Rule of Law Under Obama
October 13, 2010Ahmed Ghailani, the Guantanamo prisoner accused of taking part in the 1998 bombings of the US embassies in Kenya and Tanzania goes the courts in NY this week but is being denied a fair trial as federal prosecutors recently rejected appealing a ruling by a trial judge that prohibits a key witness from testifying. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks, that presumably only an expanded state security and defense apparatus can save us from.Vince Warren, Video Games & Censorship, and Haiti
October 12, 2010GRITtv contributor Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights takes a look at what the failures in Ghailani's trial mean restoring the rule of law. Meanwhile Dick Cheney is back to warn us against new nuclear terrorist attacks. Then, 'Medal of Honor' is a video game out this week set in modern day, war-torn Afghanistan. The controversy? As a player you can choose to play on the opposing force - essentially as the Taliban. This has led to the game being banned at US Army base stores.Vince Warren: What Happened to Constitutional Rights?
August 10, 2010President Obama was elected with fanfare and promises to restore the rule of law and accountability to the justice system, specifically around indefinite detentions at Guantanamo. But the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen taken into custody when he was just 15, seems to belie those promises.Vince Warren, Andrew Bacevich, and Philanthro-Feudalism
August 10, 2010President Obama was elected with fanfare and promises to restore the rule of law and accountability to the justice system, specifically around indefinite detentions at Guantanamo. But the upcoming trial of Omar Khadr, a Canadian citizen taken into custody when he was just 15, seems to belie those promises.The F Word: Immigrant Deaths Covered Up
January 26, 2010Monday, January 11, marks eight years since the Bush administration transferred the first prisoners to the U.S. detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. Ever since, human rights groups have pushed for the closure of Guantánamo and they're pushing harder now for the Obama administration to implement its plans to transfer or release detainees and shut the place.Transgender Equality, El Salvador, and Gaza
January 11, 2010Barack Obama made the first transgender political appointments that we know of recently--Amanda Simpson, appointed last week as senior technical adviser in the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Commerce Department, and Dylan Orr, special assistant to Assistant Secretary of Labor Kathleen Martinez in the Office of Disability Employment Policy at the Department of Labor--but even David Letterman couldn't resist making a crack at Simpson's expense.The Dark Side with Jane Mayer and Michael Ratner
July 18, 2008For those who saw the response to the Trade Center attacks as an opportunity for the U.S. to uphold international law, this country's conduct has been a failure of profound historic dimension as torture, secret detention sites and indefinite detention has become the rule of law for the first time in our history. Some accuse the Bush administration of war crimes. We're joined by Jane Mayer, who has been investigating and reporting on the war on terror. A staff writer for The New Yorker, Mayer has a new book out this week, The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals. We're also joined by Michael Ratner, president of the Center for Constitutional Rights. He successfully represented Guantanamo detainees in the U.S. Supreme Court as they sought their legal rights in court. His book, The Trial of Donald Rumsfeld, is out this September.July 17, 2008: The Dark Side
July 17, 2008For those who saw the response to the Trade Center attacks as an opportunity for the U.S. to uphold international law, this country's conduct has been a failure of profound historic dimension as torture, secret detention sites and indefinite detention has become the rule of law for the first time in our history. Some accuse the Bush administration of war crimes. Jane Mayer, investigative journalist and author of The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals and attorney Michael Ratner of the Center for Constitutional Rights. Also: LIVE FROM MAIN STREET; jazz harpist Edmar Castaneda; GOT DOCS? Gang Intervention by Cecilia Peck, and Heidi Boghosian of the National Lawyers Guild
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