*By Carol Rosenberg <https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/F0jeIhbbgOokiBkA7sJG7g~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRinIzXP0S7aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vYnkvY2Fyb2wtcm9zZW5iZXJnP2NhbXBhaWduX2lkPTg4JmVtYz1lZGl0X3dhcl8yMDIxMDYwNCZpbnN0YW5jZV9pZD0zMjE4MyZubD1hdC13YXImcmVnaV9pZD03MjgyNzE2MiZzZWdtZW50X2lkPTU5ODQwJnRlPTEmdXNlcl9pZD1mMWZiMjg1ZDI5MmUxNGM0NDZlODU2OGU3NjA5YzBkNlcDbnl0QgpguNcHumDmHCA-UhVkbW96YXJ0MTc1NkBnbWFpbC5jb21YBAAAAAA~>*
Guantanamo Reporter, Washington https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/us/guantanamo-bay-detainees.html Dear reader, In the first years of the war in Afghanistan, Guantánamo Bay was off limits to lawyers seeking to represent the detainees there, and the Bush administration refused to disclose the prisoners’ names. Commanders would brief reporters regularly, and guards would come forward to speak with pride about their service there but were not allowed to name the men in the orange uniforms. In time, the Bush administration bowed to pressure from the courts and released the names of many of the men and boys who were brought to the U.S. military detention center as “enemy combatants.” But by the time the Pentagon let the lawyers visit, hundreds of the detainees were already gone, many of them sent back to Afghanistan and Pakistan. In the minds of many people, the roughly 780 men and boys who were held at remote Guantánamo are still nameless, identically clad men locked behind razor wire. Forty remain there today, while the rest have been repatriated or dispersed around the world. But in the tug of war for transparency there, time does win out. The latest testament to that can be found in The New York Times’ online database of prisoner profiles called The Guantánamo Docket <https://nl.nytimes.com/f/a/6zJTPI96zDcyHo_uqZURug~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRinIzXP0TaaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vaW50ZXJhY3RpdmUvMjAyMS91cy9ndWFudGFuYW1vLWJheS1kZXRhaW5lZXMuaHRtbD9jYW1wYWlnbl9pZD04OCZlbWM9ZWRpdF93YXJfMjAyMTA2MDQmaW5zdGFuY2VfaWQ9MzIxODMmbmw9YXQtd2FyJnJlZ2lfaWQ9NzI4MjcxNjImc2VnbWVudF9pZD01OTg0MCZ0ZT0xJnVzZXJfaWQ9ZjFmYjI4NWQyOTJlMTRjNDQ2ZTg1NjhlNzYwOWMwZDZXA255dEIKYLjXB7pg5hwgPlIVZG1vemFydDE3NTZAZ21haWwuY29tWAQAAAAA>, which recently underwent not just a redesign but an update of nearly a decade of developments and documents — a herculean effort undertaken during the pandemic by a far-flung group of Times software engineers, editors and journalists. The upgrade is a continuing investment into understanding the offshore detention operation that the Bush administration established in the aftermath of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. The prison enters its 21st year in January and, although hundreds have come and gone, the trial of the five men accused of plotting 9/11 has yet to begin <https://nl.nytimes.com/f/newsletter/jwRVMPXwn-S7sWMtxmIEZw~~/AAAAAQA~/RgRinIzXP0ThaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cubnl0aW1lcy5jb20vMjAxOS8wOC8zMC91cy9wb2xpdGljcy9zZXB0LTExLXRyaWFsLWd1YW50YW5hbW8tYmF5Lmh0bWw_Y2FtcGFpZ25faWQ9ODgmZW1jPWVkaXRfd2FyXzIwMjEwNjA0Jmluc3RhbmNlX2lkPTMyMTgzJm5sPWF0LXdhciZyZWdpX2lkPTcyODI3MTYyJnNlZ21lbnRfaWQ9NTk4NDAmdGU9MSZ1c2VyX2lkPWYxZmIyODVkMjkyZTE0YzQ0NmU4NTY4ZTc2MDljMGQ2VwNueXRCCmC41we6YOYcID5SFWRtb3phcnQxNzU2QGdtYWlsLmNvbVgEAAAAAA~~> . The docket is one of longest continually updated digital projects undertaken by The Times. Its overhaul solidifies its status as the most comprehensive public catalog of the men in orange. It is the place where researchers, reporters, lawyers, scholars and human rights activists go when they try to unravel the mysteries of the remote and reclusive Guantánamo Bay. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#8979): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/8979 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/83309284/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
