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Reports on Guantánamo Bay, the place, policy, people and war court for McClatchy, owner of the Miami Herald. Our readers can handle the truth.

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    Dec 24

    Think your kids are hard to shop for for Christmas? Ben and Casey Affleck’s mom went way outside the box. @GuantanamoBeatReport

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  2. Dec 29

    With 2018 coming to a close, we're looking back at our stories of consequence this year. This exclusive from live testimony at a now sealed deposition offers a look at the perks of turning from tortured detainee to government witness at Gitmo.

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  3. Dec 28

    Partially unsealed by the Pentagon: This heavily redacted transcript of a secret 9/11 pretrial hearing from November in which lawyers argue about whether to depose a former CIA translator who went on to covertly work on defense teams. ?

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  4. Dec 28

    Background here:

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  5. Dec 28

    Unsealed at the war court: A Marine judge ruled that since an alleged al-Qaida commander who underwent 5 back surgeries at Gitmo was able to snooze in court in a "prepositioned hospital bed" between hearings, there's "no reason" to question his "physical competence." AE103G

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  6. Dec 28

    Former George W. Bush speechwriter on the captives of US proxy Kurdish and Arab fighters: "Better to keep them in Syria than in Guantanamo, to be sure. But better to keep them in Guantanamo than release them to carry out jihad against the West."

    Send Islamic State fighters held in Syria to Guantanamo Bay, writes
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  7. Dec 28

    The author Amos Oz has passed away, at 79. These were his remarks on the Israeli-Palestinian tragedy in 2002 on PBS' . Full transcript here,

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  8. Dec 28

    Good morning. With the year drawing to a close we’re looking back at our unexpected, interesting and consequential 2018 articles from Guantánamo. Like this one.

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  9. Dec 27

    Just in from : Secretary Pompeo to represent President Trump at the New Year's Day inauguration of Jair Bolsonaro as Brazil's president, also meet with Israeli and Peruvian leaders while in Brasilia.

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  10. Dec 27

    With the year coming to a close, we're looking back at the Guantanamo stories we broke this year. For example this June 2018 pitch to build a new prison for aging, ex-CIA captives -- complete with a wing for hospice care. Congress so far not funding it.

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  11. Dec 27

    Ruling offers a shoutout from the Sept. 11 prosecution, judge that notes this feed.

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  12. Dec 27

    Unsealed at the Gitmo war court: The 9/11 judge bifurcates court filing classification review procedures, orders chief clerk to send filings that do not require review to website for posting starting Jan. 16, declog the system. Ruling here:

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  13. Dec 27

    In 9/11 case, the judge has denied a 2014 defense motion to order phone contact between alleged plotter and his family. Judge Col. Keith Parrella, who's been chosen to command Marine Embassy security worldwide, says he won't second-guess Gitmo prison management on this one.

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  14. Dec 27

    Trippy. Just got this reply to an email to the DOJ entity that runs the immigration courts. "The appropriation that funds my salary has lapsed, and as a result I have been furloughed and am currently out of the office."

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  15. Dec 26

    With the year coming to a close, we're looking back at our important 2018 Guantánamo stories. This one illustrated how, at the remote US Navy base in Cuba, there really are two Gitmos.

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  16. Dec 26

    background here:

    The D.C. Circuit has publicly announced the three-judge panel that will hear the two major military commission mandamus petitions on January 22, 2019 (including the petition seeking to disqualify Judge Spath): Rogers, Tatel, & Griffith, JJ.
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  17. Dec 25

    On Christmas Day.

    : Girl shot by Coast Guard serviceman dies of her wounds. It’s now a triple murder-suicide Via
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  18. Dec 25

    With the year coming to a close, we're looking back at our consequential 2018 Gitmo stories. This was a deep dive into the secret war court hearings.

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  19. Dec 25

    A Guantánamo Christmas Tale

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  20. Dec 23

    What do Ben and Casey Affleck, MLK historian Taylor Branch, a former CIA analyst and the woman who played Serena van der Woodsen’s grandmother on ‘Gossip Girl’ have in common? Your holiday read.

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