The UN Special Rapporteur on torture urged President Trump not to reinstate "enhanced interrogation" policies, invoking their illegality under the Convention against Torture.
President Barack Obama granted 64 pardons and 209 commutations, including commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, who is now set to be released in May.
With a Trump despotism looming, CounterVortex offers its final assessment of Barack Obama's record in addressing the oppressive legacy of the Global War on Terrorism.
Ahead of the 15th anniversary of the first detainees arriving at Guantánamo Bay, Amnesty International issued a "final plea" to President Obama to close the facility.
A Syrian ex-Guantánamo detainee in Uruguay ended his hunger strike following an agreement allowing him to resettle in an undisclosed third country and reunite with family.
A US appeals court upheld the conviction of Ali Hamza Bahlul, former personal assistant to Osama bin Laden, finding that conspiracy cases can be tried by military tribunals.
Uruguay's foreign minister urged ex-Guantánamo prisoner Jihad Diyab to call off his hunger strike, stating that Montevideo is attempting to transfer him to another country.
A federal judge ruled that four former high-ranking CIA officials must testify in a lawsuit against two psychologists who designed the Bush-era agency torture program.
The US Congress voted overwhelmingly to override President Obama's veto of a bill that will allow the families of 9-11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia.
Obama vetoed a bill that would have allowed 9-11 victims and their families to sue Saudi Arabia, citing concerns that it would open US diplomats and servicemen to suit abroad.
The US House of Representatives approved a bill that would temporarily block further transfer of detainees from the Guantánamo Bay prison camp.
In his latest vlog, Bill Weinberg rants about the current left-right convergence, and how the politics of the Hitler-Stalin Pact are being revived in the age of Trump and Putin.
