Gitmo Papers Reveal Hundreds of Innocent People Held and are Still Held

27 April 2011 — The Real News Network

Vincent Warren: Secret Guantanamo files reveal what’s been known for years – evidence against most detainees was a sham

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Vincent Warren is the Executive Director of the Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR), a national legal and educational organization dedicated to advancing and defending the rights guaranteed by the United States Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Vince oversees CCR’s groundbreaking litigation and advocacy work which includes combating the illegal expansion of presidential power and policies such as illegal detention at Guantanamo, rendition, torture and warrantless wiretapping; holding corporations and government officials accountable for human rights abuses; and, challenging racial injustice and mass incarceration.

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Ed Neumeister ‘ESP’

27 April 2011

Readers might be curious as to why I also publish music videos on a site dedicated to investigating imperialism. Well the short answer is that I’m an ex-muso raised on jazz, funk, reggae, latin and african music and amidst all the gloom and doom, I need a shot of syncopation every now and then and this an opportunity to share it with you.

From a concert in Theater Bouwkunde in Deventer (NL) on 1. december 2010. The arrangement is by Ed Neumeister who is taking the first solo, alto-sax solo is by Gerlo Hesselink, the song composed by Wayne Shorter.