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/ The Canadian Press / U.S. court refuses to lift stay of Omar Khadr appeal, leaving him in legal limbo: lawyer
/ Ahmed Rabbani / USA Today / Guantanamo Bay detainee: I lived through CIA torture. Everyone else can catch the movie.
/ Robert Smith / Valliant News / Pentagon won’t seek death penalty in Guantánamo’s Bali bombing case
/ Mark Mazzetti and Scott Shane / New York Times / ‘The Report’ and the Untold Story of a Senate-C.I.A. Conflict
/ Julian Borger / Guardian (U.K.) / CIA risks sliding back into illegal torture methods, warns real-life star of The Report
/ Iris Vukmanovik / The Diamondback (University of Maryland) / Review: ‘The Report’ succeeds in breaking down the probe into CIA torture use after 9/11
/ David M. Crane / The Hill / Enhanced interrogation — better known as torture — took America to the dark side
/ Robert Smith / Valliant News / First alleged terrorist tortured by CIA sheds immunity to testify about secret prison
/ Associated Press / Afghan Officials: 2 Federal Prosecutors Shot Dead Near Kabul
/ Eric Lewis / The Independent (UK) / Trump talks the talk on national security — but Americans are much less safe from real threats under him
/ Ayaz Gul / Voice of America / Afghan Taliban Blame US for Failed Prisoner Swap
/ Michael R. Lehnert / Defense One / We Haven’t Done Enough to Ensure That America Never Tortures Again
/ Sarah Beretich / The Tower (Catholic University, Washington, DC) / Chief of Staff Lawrence Morris: War Crimes, Justice, and the National Interest
/ Emma Schambach / The College Fix (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) / Students demand UNCC fire former Gitmo commander as campus security chief, claim they ‘do not feel safe’
/ Pakistan News Service / Prisoner swap deal in Afghanistan has been suspended: Taliban officials
/ Fahad Shabbir / UrduPoint News & Sputnik / Taliban Says Prisoner Swap Delayed As Taliban-Affiliated Militants Not Released
/ Kevin Fallon / The Daily Beast / ‘Enhanced Interrogation’ in ‘The Report’: How Maura Tierney Grappled With Waterboarding Scenes and CIA Torture
/ Ed Pilkington and Martin Pengelly / Guardian (U.K.) / Trump proposed sending migrants to Guantánamo, claims book by anonymous author
/ Sacha Pfeiffer / NPR / A Legacy Of Torture Is Preventing Trials At Guantánamo
/ Pakistan News Service / Ashraf Ghani released three Taliban under swap deal
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