The Guantánamo Lawyers: Inside a Prison Outside the Law

Contents

v Contents Introduction 1 Mark P. Denbeaux and Jonathan Hafetz Prelude 7 1 Representing the “Worst of the Worst” 13 How and Why the Lawyers Started Representing Detainees 13 2 Getting behind the Wire 29 Rasul/Al Odah: The Right to Representation 29 3 Uncovering Guantánamo’s Human Face 55 First Impressions 55 Rendered: How the Detainees Got to Guantánamo 85 Female Attorneys 91 Family Members 96 Interpreters 103 4 Red Tape and Kangaroo Courts 109 Barriers to Representation 109 The No-Hearing Hearings: Combatant Status Review Tribunals 148 Military Commissions 169 Political Maneuvering 200 Boumediene v. Bush: The Death Knell for Prisons beyond the Law 219 5 Tortured 229 A Product of Torture Culture 229 Reactions 255 Hunger Strikes 265 Suicides 281 6 Alternative Forms of Advocacy 289 vi Contents 7 Leaving Guantánamo 313 Stuck in Limbo 313 Out but Not Free 329 Happy Endings? 341 8 Guantánamo beyond Cuba: 361 A Global Detention System outside the Law Guantánamo Comes to America 361 Black Sites 379 Coda 399 Timeline: Guantánamo and the “War on Terror” 405 Contributors 413 ...