On May 3rd, No More Guantánamos held a grassroots conference call on the secret Detainee Assessment Briefs (DABs) released by WikiLeaks and on attempts by some current and former politicians and their supporters to use the assassination of Osama bin Laden to justify torture and indefinite detention at Guantánamo Bay prison.
On our first call, Shane Kadidal of the Center for Constitutional Rights and blogger Andy Worthington, who is on of WikiLeaks’ ten partners for the release, spoke to nearly 30 call participants about the release and about strategies for overcoming claims that the finding of Osama bin Laden justifies “enhanced interrogation” and continued detention and interrogation at Guantánamo Bay.
Read the transcript of their remarks attached.