Linda Fisher

Linda Fisher

Professor Linda Fisher joined Seton Hall in 1995 and has served as Director of the Center for Social Justice. Her current concentration is in the areas of foreclosure and mortgage fraud. She teaches Civil Procedure in addition to the Civil Litigation Clinic. She has served as pro bono legislative counsel for AARP-NJ and as a consultant to the American Association of University Professors.

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Guantanamo Reports

Analyze the facts, and you uncover a nation’s policies. Since 2006, Fellows with the Center for Policy and Research have been analyzing government data to illuminate the interrogations and intelligence practices of the United States. The findings have been quite revealing, showing that what’s found in the data is often the best divulger of the truth. The reports have been introduced into the Congressional record by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, and as part of a Resolution by the European Parliament.

READ THE GUANTANAMO REPORTS:

Revisionist Recidivism: An Analysis of the Governments Representations of Alleged "Recidivism" of the Guantánamo Detainees

Torture: Who knew An Analysis of the FBI and Department of Defense Reactions to Harsh Interrogation Methods at Guantanamo (04/01/09)

Released Guantánamo Detainees and the Department of Defense: Propaganda By the Numbers? (01/15/09)

Profile of Released Guantánamo Detaines: The Government's Story Then and Now
Cover Statement by Professor Mark Denbeaux (08/04/08)

Justice Scalia, the Department of Defense, and The Perpetuation of an Urban Legend: The Truth about Recidivism of Released Guantánamo Detainees (06/16/08)

Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantánamo (02/07/08)

The Meaning of "Battlefield": An Analysis of the Government’s Representations of ‘Battlefield Capture’ and ‘Recidivism’ of the Guantánamo Detainees (12/10/07)

Professor Denbeaux's Testimony before the Judiciary Committee on C-SPAN The Empty Battlefield and the Thirteenth Criterion (11/08/07)

The 14 Myths of Guantánamo: Senate Armed Services Committee Statement of Mark P. Denbeaux. Professor Mark P. Denbeaux testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on 4/26/07

No-Hearing Hearings (11/17/06)

June 10th Suicides at Guantánamo (8/21/06)

The Guantánamo Detainees During Detention Data from Department of Defense Records (7/10/06)

Second Report on the Guantánamo Detainees: Inter- and Intra-Departmental Disagreements About Who Is Our Enemy (3/20/06) 

Report on Guantánamo Detainees A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data (2/8/06)

The reports have been cited by media throughout the world, including television and radio networks such as CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, CNN, NPR, PBS, BBC, Fox News, and the Christian Broadcasting Network; newspapers such as The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall St. Journal, Toronto Star, Guardian (UK), Der Spiegel (Ger.), Le Monde (Fr.), Times of India, Jerusalem Post, New Zealand Times, Manila Times; magazines such as Time, Newsweek, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Village Voice, Harpers, The Nation, Mother Jones, and The Economist; and Web-based news sources including The Huffington Post, Salon, Slate.com, Daily Kos, Yahoo News, AOL News, Amnesty USA, and others simply too numerous to list.