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Allegations that Ron DeSantis force-fed an inmate at Guantanamo Bay don't check out because he was just a low-level grunt at the time, ex-colonel says
DeSantis was "too junior" and "too inexperienced" at the time to be allowed to force-feed inmates, …
Sonam Sheth
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DeSantis loses his cool with a reporter after being challenged over claims he witnessed torture while working at Guantanamo Bay
The Florida governor and prospective 2024 candidate is facing scrutiny for his work as a naval lawy…
Tom Porter
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An ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee says he still remembers Ron DeSantis smiling at him from behind a fence while he was being force-fed: 'You cannot forget that'
This, per a transcript of an unaired VICE documentary obtained by the Daily Beast, which included a…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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LA blasted classical music in train stations to keep homeless people away. The weaponization of music has a dark history — from the Holocaust to Guantanamo Bay.
Composer Alex Wakim told Insider that the LA Metro's decision to crank up the classical music is a …
Azmi Haroun
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Lithuania paid a Guantánamo Bay detainee $113,000 for letting the CIA torture him in a black site there
A man was kept in CIA black sites before he was brought to Guantánamo. Lithuania paid him compensat…
Sinéad Baker
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January 6 defendants are asking to be sent to Guantanamo Bay rather than continue enduring 'diabolical' DC jail conditions
The group of 34 inmates in a Friday letter complained about inadequate meals, limited attorney acce…
Erin Snodgrass,Nicole Gaudiano
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Some US Navy sailors spent Christmas quarantining in a hotel in Guantánamo Bay after testing positive for COVID-19
The NYT reported that 25% of the USS Milwaukee's crew tested positive and that some quarantined in …
Grace Dean
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'I'm living in Guantanamo 2.0': A Guantanamo Bay survivor says he can't get a job or make friends, and can't leave his city without permission
Mansoor Adayfi was held in the prison camp for 14 years, and never charged with a crime. He said th…
Sinéad Baker
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A Navy captain says there is widespread agreement in the military that 'torture is wrong' and that it is not a liberal viewpoint
Curtis said he thinks "senior people fully understand that acts like torture do more long-term dama…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Biden released a 19-year detainee from Guantánamo Bay whom Trump kept detained for 4 years despite being cleared for release
Abdul Latif Nasser, 56, is due to be repatriated to Morocco from Guantánamo Bay, The New York Times…
Sinéad Baker
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A military jury said torture tactics used by the CIA were on par with the 'most abusive regimes in modern history,' report says
"The treatment of Mr. Khan in the hands of US personnel should be a source of shame for the US gove…
Kelsey Vlamis
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Supreme Court justices ask the Biden administration if a Guantanamo Bay prisoner can testify about his CIA-sponsored torture
The case concerns the government's 9/11 response, when the CIA set up a program to gather intellige…
Oma Seddiq
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'Forever prisoners': 39 remain at Guantanamo Bay 20 years after 9/11, including some who have never been charged
Of the 39 detainees, 27 have never been charged; five await trial over their alleged involvement in…
Kelsey Vlamis
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A Taliban commander who helped seize the Afghan presidential palace spent nearly 6 years at Guantanamo, where he told a guard 'we will get you on the outside'
Gholam Ruhani spent eight years in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp before he was released by the …
Ashley Collman
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75 House Democrats urge Biden to take immediate steps to close Guantanamo, calling the prison a 'fundamental betrayal' of US values
There are still 39 detainees at Guantanamo - many have been held for years without being tried or c…
John Haltiwanger
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Conditions at Guantánamo Bay suddenly got worse after Biden took office, prisoners and advocates told VICE
Prisoners say guards now refuse to speak to them and have denied them medicine, according to a VICE…
Connor Perrett
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Defense Department pauses plan to offer COVID-19 vaccine to Guantanamo Bay prisoners after GOP criticism
Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said the department is reviewing measures to keep troops safe, and…
Kelsey Vlamis
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The Biden administration is looking for contractors and guards for a migrant detention facility in Guantanamo Bay - stirring outrage in lawmakers and advocates
"Sending Haitian migrants to Guantanamo Bay was a mistake in the 1990s and would be a mistake now,"…
Azmi Haroun
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Clarence Thomas' wife told Mark Meadows that 'the Biden crime family' and 'ballot fraud co-conspirators' would be 'living in barges off GITMO to face military tribunals for sedition,' texts show
Ginni Thomas pushed QAnon-adjacent conspiracy theories and strategized about ways to overturn the 2…
Grace Panetta
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The US Navy runs a gift store in Guantanamo Bay, where you can buy 'Straight Outta Gitmo' mugs, stuffed toys, and beer koozies. Here's what it's like inside.
Less than five miles from the Guantanamo Bay military camp, where inmates are allegedly abused and …