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Studies

Report on Guantanamo Detainees: A Profile of 517 Detainees through Analysis of Department of Defense Data (February 8, 2006)
  • Based on the Summary of Evidence memos prepared for 517 Guantanamo captives' Combatant Status Review Tribunals, first published in the Winter and Spring of 2005.
  • Asserted that about 5% of the detainees had been captured by Unites States soldiers on a battlefield; 86% were captured by Afghan and Pakistanis or Pakistani border guards. They turned over prisoners to US forces, when the US was widely paying bounties of $5,000 per prisoner.
Inter- and Intra-Departmental Disagreements About Who Is Our Enemy (20 March 2006)
  • Based on the CSRT Summary of Evidence memos prepared for 517 Guantanamo captives, published in 2005.
  • Asserted that the continued detention of many captives was based only on allegations of associations with certain organizations, but these were not included among the USA's public lists of those suspected of ties to terrorism.
  • Concluded either that the public lists, such as the "no-fly lists", were permitting individuals to enter the USA who had other meaningful ties to terrorism, or that the organizations cited to justify detention at Guantanamo did not have significant ties to terrorism.
The Guantanamo Detainees During Detention: Data from Department of Defense Records (July 10, 2006)
  • Summarizes the Department of Defense reports of "hanging incidents" and "self-harm" incidents by detainees, and how many times captives were cited for infractions of the camp rules.
June 10th Suicides at Guantanamo (August 21, 2006)
  • Described discrepancies in the public record related to the first three reported suicides in Guantanamo.
No-Hearing Hearings (November 17, 2006)
  • Analyzed compliance of the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (CSRT) with their own rules and the rule of law.
  • Was the first study to document that new Tribunals were routinely convened to reverse the determinations of Tribunals that had ruled that captives had not been "enemy combatants" .
  • Described incidents when Tribunals broke their own rules.
The 14 Myths of Guantánamo: Senate Armed Services Committee Statement of Mark P. Denbeaux. Denbeaux testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee on April 26, 2007
  • Based on the studies done by the Center for Policy and Research, revealed 14 myths which the Bush administration had been saying about Guantanamo detainees and operations.
The Empty Battlefield and the Thirteenth Criterion (November 8, 2007)
  • Students at the West Point Military Academy published an analysis of the documents the Department of Defense published about the captives. The Seton Hall study is a commentary on the West Point report.
The Meaning of "Battlefield": An Analysis of the Government’s Representations of ‘Battlefield Capture’ and ‘Recidivism’ of the Guantánamo Detainees (12/10/07), Professor Denbeaux's Testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on C-SPAN

Captured on Tape: Interrogation and Videotaping of Detainees in Guantánamo (February 7, 2008)
  • Asserts that, contrary to the protestations of Bush administration spokesmen, the published record shows that all of the 24,000 interrogations conducted at Guantanamo were videotaped, and that analysts prepared extensive notes.
Justice Scalia, the Department of Defense, and The Perpetuation of an Urban Legend: The Truth about Recidivism of Released Guantánamo Detainees (June 16, 2008)
  • Examines the dissenting arguments of United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in its ruling in Boumediene v. Bush (2008).
  • Argues that Scalia was repeating "urban legends" when he claimed that more than 30 former Guantanamo captives had "returned to the battlefield" following their release.
Profile of Released Guantánamo Detainees: The Government's Story Then and Now (August 4, 2008)
  • This report concludes that the release of captives has depended more on their nationality, than an assessment as to whether they represented a security risk.
Released Guantánamo Detainees and the Department of Defense: Propaganda by the Numbers? (January 15, 2009)
  • This report challenges the assertions of Department of Defense spokesmen that an increasing number of former Guantanamo captives have "returned to supporting terrorism".
Torture: Who Knew -- An Analysis of the FBI and Department of Defense Reactions to Harsh Interrogation Methods at Guantánamo (April 1, 2009)
  • Citing FBI accounts, this report concludes that the various generals assigned to investigate reports of torture at Guantanamo failed to look at the observations filed by FBI agents of what they observed.

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  • This report analyzes the heavily redacted NCIS report published in August 2008 about the investigation of deaths of three detainees on June 10, 2006, which DOD had said were suicides.

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