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Christian Science Monitor, 03 Jul 08, by Warren Richey
Guantánamo Detainees: shorter wait?
'Last month's Supreme Court ruling sets new rules for judges examining habeas corpus challenges from detainees.'

International Herald Tribune, 02 Jul 08, by Scott Shane
U.S. interrogators were taught Chinese coercion techniques
'The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners ... What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 air force study of Chinese techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.'

International Herald Tribune, 01 Jul 08, by William Glaberson
U.S. court overturns Pentagon's case against Guantánamo detainee
'In the first case to review the U.S. government's secret evidence for holding a detainee at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, a U.S. appeals court found that accusations against a Chinese man held for more than six years had been based on bare and unverifiable claims.'

International Herald Tribune, 14 Jun 08, by William Glaberson
Defense lawyers to challenge Guantánamo trials
'A day after the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling granting detainees at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, the right to challenge their detention in federal court, military defense lawyers said they planned to use the decision to mount new attacks on the government's war crimes prosecutions that could stall or stop trials.'

News Hour, 12 Jun 08, with Jeffrey Brown et al
Justices Rule Terror Suspects Can Appeal Detentions
'A Supreme Court ruling Thursday granted Guantanamo detainees the right to challenge their cases in civilian courts. Experts examine the case and its impact on anti-terror efforts.'

International Herald Tribune, 11 Jun 08, by Scott Shane
Congress presses interrogation issue with administration officials
'In a flurry of oversight that some critics say comes years too late, Congress is pressing Bush administration officials on a still unanswered question: How did the United States come to embrace harsh interrogation methods it had always shunned?'

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