2012: Guantánamo Bay detainee recidivism rates have been all over the news this week, but statistics vary between reports. According to some sources, referencing a report by the U.S. Director of National Intelligence, 27.9 percent of the 599 former Guantánamo Bay detainees are believed to have returned to military activity. But according to the Associated…

2012: This week, in the first ever plea deal between a “high value” detainee and the U.S. government, Guantánamo detainee Majid Khan pleaded guilty to terror charges. Deemed a “high value” prisoner by President George W. Bush, his charges include conspiring with al-Qaeda, murder, and attempted murder. As a condition of his plea agreement, he…

Gitmo at Ten: By Scott Horton On January 11, 2002, the first prisoners from the Bush Administration’s “War on Terror” were landed at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, a forty-five-square-mile enclave at the eastern end of Cuba that America secured in a 1903 treaty and has held ever since. Today marks the tenth anniversary of…