Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts
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On March 3, 2006 the United States Department of Defense
partially complied with a court order
and released 53 portable document format
files that contained several hundred Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts.
Most of the transcripts were only identified by an ISN in the lower right hand corner of each page. It was not until April 20, 2006 that the Departmnet of Defense released an official list of the captives names, ISNs and nationalities.
On September 6, 2006 United States President George W. Bush
announced the transfer of fourteen "high value detainees" from CIA custody to Guantanamo.
These fourteen men had their Tribunals in the spring of 2007, and their transcripts were released one at a time, shortly thereafter.
Because the press was not allowed to attend their Tribunals their transcripts were verbatim—not summarized.
The press was barred in order to avoid revealing "national security" secrets.
The CIA director later acknowledged that several of these captives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah
had been subjected to the controversial technique known as "waterboarding
".
Six further captives have been transferred to Guantanamo since September 6, 2006. In theory they too should have their enemy combatant status confirmed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. But the DoD has not made public any plans to do so.
United States Department of Defense
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partially complied with a court order
Court order
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and released 53 portable document format
Portable Document Format
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files that contained several hundred Combatant Status Review Tribunal transcripts.
Most of the transcripts were only identified by an ISN in the lower right hand corner of each page. It was not until April 20, 2006 that the Departmnet of Defense released an official list of the captives names, ISNs and nationalities.
On September 6, 2006 United States President George W. Bush
George W. Bush
George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....
announced the transfer of fourteen "high value detainees" from CIA custody to Guantanamo.
These fourteen men had their Tribunals in the spring of 2007, and their transcripts were released one at a time, shortly thereafter.
Because the press was not allowed to attend their Tribunals their transcripts were verbatim—not summarized.
The press was barred in order to avoid revealing "national security" secrets.
The CIA director later acknowledged that several of these captives, including Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and Abu Zubaydah
Abu Zubaydah
Abu Zubaydah is a Saudi Arabian citizen, sentenced to death in Jordan and currently held in U.S. custody in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Not neutral: Arrested in Pakistan in March 2002, he has been in US custody for more than eight years, four-and-a-half of them spent incommunicado in solitary confinement...
had been subjected to the controversial technique known as "waterboarding
Waterboarding
Waterboarding is a form of torture in which water is poured over the face of an immobilized captive, thus causing the individual to experience the sensation of drowning...
".
Six further captives have been transferred to Guantanamo since September 6, 2006. In theory they too should have their enemy combatant status confirmed by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal. But the DoD has not made public any plans to do so.