Who are the Detainees and Why are They There?
The military trains people to withstand interrogation. Are those methods being misused at Guantánamo?
The New Yorker, Issue of 2005-07-11 and 18 Posted 2005-07-04
How an internal effort to ban the abuse and torture of detainees was thwarted.
The New Yorker, Issue of 2006-02-27 Posted 2006-02-20
At oral argument in Abu Bakker Qassim v. George Bush,the judge was shocked that the government didn't bother to notify either the court or detainees' counsel that it had found them not to be enemy combatants. Despite so finding, the government refused to release the innocent detainees, and the judge doubted the court's jurisdiction to compel the government to do so.