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December 23, 2008 – The Center for Constitutional Rights is outraged at President Obama’s choice of the right wing Rev. Rick Warren to lead the convocation at his inauguration. This is “change” we can neither believe in nor support. Many… Read More >>
December 23, 2008, New York and Washington, DC — The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) must turn over information regarding 49 cables it has admitted it has in its possession related to the waterboarding of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, said three prominent… Read More >>
December 12, 2008, New York – This week, the Senate Armed Services Committee released a bi-partisan report almost two years in the making on the abuse of detainees in U.S. custody, proving, beyond dispute, that Donald Rumsfeld was directly responsible… Read More >>
December 16, 2008, New York – In response to the safe return home from Guantanamo of three of the men who were at the center of this year’s Supreme Court case ruling in favor of the detainees at Guantánamo, Center… Read More >>
December 15, 2008, Washington, D.C. – In Rasul v. Myers, the first case to challenge torture and violations of religious freedom at Guantánamo, the U.S. Supreme Court today granted certiorari, vacated the underlying opinion and remanded the case for reconsideration… Read More >>
As the officials of the Bush administration pack up in Washington and move into their posh suburban homes around the country, will they be able to rest easy, or will they be haunted by the fear that…
In the Bush administration's first bow to a court directive to release prisoners held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, the Department of Defense flew three Algerians to their adopted homeland of Bosnia-Herzegovina on Tuesday. The Pentagon acknowledged in a tersely…
A bipartisan Senate report has accused former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other top Bush administration officials of being directly responsible for the abuse and torture of prisoners at Guantanamo and other US prisons. We speak with the…
The President of the legal nonprofit Center for Constitutional Rights, Michael Ratner, has resumed calls for a formal prosecution of ex-Bush Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld following revelations by a Congressional report that Rumsfeld was to blame for the…
The Supreme Court today revived a lawsuit by four British Muslims who say they were tortured and abused at the Guantanamo Bay prison and seek to hold top Pentagon officials responsible. The suit was thrown out last year…
October, 2007
Shayana Kadidal, CCR Staff Attorney, discusses one of our most important ongoing cases: CCR v. Bush, in which CCR has argued that the warrantless domestic surveillance program conducted by the NSA since 9/11 has been violation of criminal law and the first and fourth amendments.
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July, 2008
In its first 100 days, the next president's administration must not
only take action to close Guantánamo, but also address the broader
array of attacks on our Constitution and our rights that have taken
place - from warrantless wiretapping, to the criminalization of
activists, to the unprecedented expansion of executive power. Hear
about CCR's blueprint for the First 100 days and our exciting new
campaign.
On June 12, 2008, the Supreme Court issued a historic ruling in the
combined cases of Boumediene v. Bush and Al Odah v. United States,
affirming the Constitutional right of Guantánamo detainees to challenge
their detention in the federal courts and undoing the attempts of the
Bush administration and Congress to suspend the fundamental right of
habeas corpus.
After this important decision, what does the future hold for Guantánamo's detainees? For the law? For the U.S.?
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