On January 22, 2010, TCP joined with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Institute to sponsor a panel discussion held in New York City to examine the future of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility. Panelists were: Stephen Abraham, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), US Army Intelligence Corps (Reserves); Honorable John Coughenour, Federal District Court, Seattle; Talat Hamdani, member, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows; Shane Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Center for Constitutional Rights; Celeste Koeleveld, former Chief of the Criminal Division and Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney’s Office, Southern District of New York; and Brad Wiegmann, Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General, National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice.
Panel Focuses on Future of Guantanamo
“It was torture,” TCP's independent, bipartisan, blue-ribbon Task Force on Detainee Treatment concluded in a report released April 16, 2013. The group looked at the federal government's policies and actions related to the detention and treatment of suspected terrorists captured in Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere and held in U.S. custody during the Clinton, Bush and Obama administrations. Read More...
