[Imc-chicago-audio] Close Guantánamo and save the U.S.

[Erin Polgreen]

MEDIA ALERT

February 12, 2007 | For Immediate Release

Close Guantánamo and Save the U.S.

Five years after the first group of detainees arrived in Guantánamo,  
In These Times presents a unique three-article exposé of the damage  
this legal no-man’s land has wrought upon democracy.

The articles appear in February’s 30th anniversary issue of In These  
Times and go online this week.
TODAY: Karen Greenberg lists the “8 Reasons to Close Guantánamo  
Now.”http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/3024
Tuesday, Feb. 13: H. Candace Gorman goes “Inside America’s Gulag.”
Wednesday, Feb. 14: Mischa Gause investigates Guantánamo’s  
“Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire.”
To download a PDF of the February issue, visit: http:// 
www.inthesetimes.com/pdf/InTheseTimes31-02.pdf
For more information, or to interview Karen Greenberg, H. Candace  
Gorman or Mischa Gaus contact:

Erin Polgreen, Associate Publisher

erin at inthesetimes.com

773/772.0100 Ext. 225

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In the first part of this series, Karen J. Greenberg, executive  
director of the Center on Law and Security at NYU School of Law,  
gives “8 reasons why Closing Guantánamo will save the U.S.” The most  
compelling? “Closing Guntánamo will help to restore America’s  
standing in the world and in the eyes of its own citizens.

“Closing Guantánamo is not about bowing to human rights concerns or  
even to the law,” Greenberg writes. “We must close it as a signal to  
the world that, even in the face of danger, the United States remains  
true to its values.”
*****

Part two of the series zeroes in on the confounding “parallel legal  
universe” that Guantánamo lawyer H. Candace Gorman faces on a daily  
basis. On Tuesday, February 13, “Inside America’s Gulag” details  
Gorman’s attempts to represent detainee Abdul Al Ghizzawi, a former  
spice shop owner who was turned in to American’s for a $5000 bounty.



“I can tell you unequivocally that my client is not a terrorist, and  
neither are a vast majority of prisoners locked up at Guantánamo,”  
Gorman writes. “But with legal geniuses like those running our  
country, is it any wonder that the men in Guantánamo have languished  
for five years?”

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And in “Interrogations Behind Barbed Wire,” Contributing Editor  
Mischa Gaus examines the history of U.S. intelligence services using  
drugs in dubious “mind control experiments” and reveals that two  
Guantánamo inmates have joined Jose Padilla in claiming that they  
were involuntarily drugged.

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