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17 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Accurate. There should be a public legal process/prosecution/accounting.
Also, I honestly cannot imagine the hubris - the depth of arrogance - it takes to give an answer like that to a question about the wrongful deaths of innocent people. @DeptofDefense @PentagonPresSec #Humanrightspresidency
I’m used to the arrogance of white men who think they can dismiss the deaths/torture of people of color, but wow, that hit me right in the face, @PentagonPresSec
I'm still raging, so I just want to add that if a US strike had killed dozens of *white* civilians in Western Europe, you can bet that crime would have been litigated from top to bottom by now, reparations paid, and Rose Garden apologies made. @PentagonPresSec

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Alka Pradhan⁷ Profile picture
6 Oct
Thomas: "The contractors have testified before" - yup, we examined them in open session, w/govt lawyers present.
The distinction govt is making is not accurate; Drs. Mitchell and Jessen testified at the military commissions about the facilities themselves, but without confirming or denying the locations of the sites.
Sotomayor (I think?) pointing out the potential for segregation of discovery due to govt's admitted declassification of detainee torture.
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11 Jan
Today is the grim 19th anniversary of the opening of the offshore gulag at Guantanamo Bay. The crimes the USG committed (that continue) at GTMO and lack of accountability led us directly to the nat-sec chaos of 2021. Here are 10 myths and 9 little-known facts abt GTMO (thread)
First, let me welcome my longtime followers from @DeptofDefense and @TheJusticeDept - pls pay close attention, you might learn something useful.
1. Myth: The “worst of the worst” were sent to Guantanamo. The below article from DECEMBER 2002 (!) describes the frustration that we were illegally collecting men at Guantanamo who should never have been detained.
latimes.com/news/la-na-git…
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19 Aug 20
One of those amazing moments every teacher can appreciate. Yet another brilliant former student at @pennlaw has published a paper - incredibly timely - on the int'l legal culpability of freshly-emerged torture architect, John Yoo. brill.com/view/journals/…
While I'm spotlighting formidable former students, here is @NatashaArnpr's 2017 article on the human rights challenges wrt the private military industry: scholarship.law.upenn.edu/jil/vol38/iss4…
And finally - just the most recent of @p_stottlemyer's analyses of Guantanamo issues: justsecurity.org/67702/d-c-circ…
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13 May 20
Incisive piece in @just_security by my teammate @br_farley about the GTMO military commission's fundamental jurisdiction problems. Spoiler alert: "the military commission’s approach is . . . fundamentally incoherent and incorrect in law."

justsecurity.org/70123/getting-…
And it has taken EIGHT YEARS of pre-trial hearings for the military commission to elucidate that incoherent/incorrect view of its own jurisdiction, because the govt is so arrogant/MC system so corrupt, that they never thought they'd need to demonstrate jurisdiction.
☝️🏾Attn: @TheJusticeDept and @DeptofDefense - it's never too late to learn something new, like jurisdiction in an armed conflict that you claim has existed for 24 years.
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14 Apr 20
Yet another example of GTMO insanity: the military judge has just denied the defense access to the full SSCI torture report, despite a letter from @SenFeinstein supporting release to security-cleared counsel, and despite its centrality to @BaluchiGitmo's death penalty case.
When we say that @BaluchiGitmo and others are facing "trial" at Guantanamo, please understand that it is an illegal process before an illegally constituted "court," bound by rules that intentionally violate all semblance of due process.
I wrote about the importance of defense (and public!) access to the full SSCI report earlier this year: post-gazette.com/opinion/Op-Ed/…
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11 Apr 20
Why are we willing to accept such a shameful standard of living in the United States (health care, wealth disparities, justice system)? The complacency/willful blindness/self-defeating jingoism is constantly stunning.
Exhibit A: washingtonpost.com/world/europe/h…
Exhibit B: https://t.co/XZ9hYpkhha
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