Guantánamo is still open!
People who do work at or write about or actively worry about Guantánamo.
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@lisahajjar.bsky.social
@margotwilliams.bsky.social
Journalist, news researcher, data editor, factchecker @The Intercept. Ex-Washington Post, ex-NYT, ex-NPR, +more. Member of ICIJ. Still researching Guantanamo, JFKFacts and Jan 6 riot. My SubStack is Desk Set Research https://margotwilliams.substack.com
@realityisprodigy.bsky.social
Teacher of undergrads and MPA students with interests in administrative and constitutional law, energy policy, disaster policy, and property rights.
@markfallon.bsky.social
Director - ClubFed, LLC Interrogation expert consulting Instructing in the Tradecraft of #EffectiveInterviewing and science-based #interrogation Author - #UnjustifiableMeans Editor - Interrogation and Torture Editor - Interviewing and Interrogation
@essaysmythe.bsky.social
blk critical theorist + transmedia artist. ‘black studies & the archive’ professor
@alkapradhan.bsky.social
Int'l human rights lawyer at Guantanamo & ICC. Penn Law prof. Chai, cheese, and hotteok connoisseur. I had hot sauce in my bag long before Beyoncé. No DoD opinions here; reposts are not confirmation/denial of classified info. She/Her
@lbhungalia.bsky.social
Author of Elastic Empire | Assistant Professor of Geography and International Studies @ UW-Madison https://www.sup.org/books/middle-east-studies/elastic-empire?tab=1
@asimqureshi.bsky.social
Research Director at CAGE International. Author of Rules of the Game: Detention Deportation Disappearance (2009), A Virtue of Disobedience (2019), When Only God Can See: The Faith Muslim Political Prisoners (2024); and editor of I Refuse to Condemn (2020).
@witnessblower.net
Living Life Outside of Pandora’s ‘Deep State’ Box. Defending Inalienable Rights. Abhor Authoritarianism & Abuse of Power. Incongruent Divergent. NatSec Whistleblower on Gov’t Violations of Law & Public Trust. Nurturing New Seeds of Democracy & Freedom. 🌱
@gailhelt.bsky.social
CIA analyst, 2003-14. Close Guantanamo. Human Rights. China. My posts reflect only my views.
@ronakkapadia.bsky.social
Author: INSURGENT AESTHETICS | Writing: BREATHING IN THE BROWN QUEER COMMONS | Curator: https://www.survivingthelongwars.online/ | art/abolition/war/security/empire/futurism/healing/disability/justice | Pisces ♓️🐟
@jadaliyya.bsky.social
Jadaliyya is an online publication. It features commentary in English, Arabic, & French by academics, activists, and artists from MENA.
@brfarley.bsky.social
International law, law of armed conflict, national security law and policy, constitutional and criminal law. Career fed; sometimes Dead Head. Usual caveats.
@foreverwars.bsky.social
Tracking the continuities, departures and permutations of the War on Terror. www.forever-wars.com
@merip.bsky.social
The Middle East Research and Information Project (MERIP) has provided critical, alternative reporting on the Middle East since 1971. www.merip.org
@eliseswain.bsky.social
Freelance journalist and photographer. Past: @theintercept // reporting on Guantanamo, CIVCAS from GWOT, and lack of US accountability // IG: www.instagram.com/eliseswain www.eliseswain.com
@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social
Writer, teacher, cat lady, etc. Thinking about truth, knowledge, secrecy, speakability, torture, “terrorism”, and the relationship between all of the above. Working at a university in the UK, with which this account is not affiliated.
@krhawkins.bsky.social
Senior Legal Analyst for the Constitution Project at @pogowatchdog. Trying to annoy CBP for rights violations as badly as I used to annoy the CIA. Personal account; views are my own, etc.
@ksuenamu.bsky.social
@editorialboard.bsky.social
John Stoehr is the editor of the Editorial Board. he/him. Subscribe: http://editorialboard.com.
@prisonpolicy.org
Challenging mass incarceration and over-criminalization through research, advocacy, and organizing. Get email updates: https://prisonpolicy.org/subscribe/
@johnknefel.bsky.social
senior writer at media matters (stuff here is my own opinion etc, likes are bookmarks)
@bartongellman.bsky.social
@BrennanCenter | ex Atlantic, WaPo | Author, Angler & Dark Mirror | Visiting Lecturer, Princeton | bartongellman.com/contact
@jessbravin.bsky.social
Supreme Court correspondent, The Wall Street Journal. Author, "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice at Guantanamo Bay"; "Squeaky: The Life & Times of Lynette Alice Fromme." Founder: Raymond Chandler Square, L.A. City Historic-Cultural Monument No. 597.
@madar.bsky.social
Author, attorney, translator. Teaching law ~and society~ to the undergrads at Lang/NewSchool and NYU Gallatin. Make the Road NY legal alum.
@oonahathaway.bsky.social
Professor at Yale Law School & Professor of Political Science at Yale University; Executive Editor at Just Security; former Special Council at U.S. Department of Defense
@secretsandlaws.bsky.social
Former CIA attorney, addressing all things relating to national security, secrecy, classification, FOIA, climate change, and bird law.
@marydudziak.bsky.social
Law, history, politics. Latest book: Making the Forever War: Marilyn Young on the Culture and Politics of American Militarism. https://makingtheforeverwar.mystrikingly.com/ #lawsky 🗃
@mollycrabapple.bsky.social
Draws and writes and gets in fights Mollycrabapple.com Mollycrabapple.substack.com
@democracynow.org
Independent, daily global news hour. Support our work: http://democracynow.org/donate Daily News Digest: http://democracynow.org/subscribe
@natashalennard.bsky.social
Well, since you’re all here, too… columnist at The Intercept; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life”; antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
@lalehkhalili.bsky.social
Politics, poetry, ports, pottymouth. She/her. Typos and dropped words in every post, because sharing is caring. Find me at l.khalili@exeter.ac.uk
@rgoodlaw.bsky.social
https://www.youtube.com/@RGoodLaw Co-editor-in-chief at Just Security (https://bsky.app/profile/justsecurity.org). Chaired Prof at NYU Law. Former Chaired Prof Harvard. Former Special Counsel Defense Dept. https://www.justsecurity.org/author/goodmanryan
@jeremyscahill.com
Journalist at @DropSiteNews.com. Author of Blackwater and Dirty Wars. Former twitter combatant. Proton: jeremy@dropsitenews.com
@jameeljaffer.bsky.social
Director, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University; Exec Editor, Just Security; former ACLU. knightcolumbia.org.
@akalhan.bsky.social
Law professor, Drexel Univ • Fellow, UC Nat'l Ctr for Free Speech & Civic Engagement • Affiliated fellow, Yale ISP • NYC Bar Ass'n Rule of Law Task Force • AAUP Cmte A on Academic Freedom ⚾ Cleveland native/partisan 🏀 runner • https://linktr.ee/akalhan
@lawfaremedia.org
Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy. Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
@benjaminwittes.lawfaremedia.org
Editor in Chief, @lawfaremedia.org Senior Fellow, Brookings Author, #DogShirtDaily Host, #DogShirtTV Purveyor of mischief. Harasser of Russian diplomats worldwide.
@stevevladeck.bsky.social
@ksvesq.bsky.social’s husband; father of daughters; professor @georgetownlaw.bsky.social; #SCOTUS nerd @CNN.com Bio: www.law.georgetown.edu/faculty/stephen-i-vladeck "One First" Supreme Court newsletter: stevevladeck.com Book: tinyurl.com/shadowdocket
@thenation.com
Founded by abolitionists in 1865. Committed to progressive journalism. Subscribe: http://subscriptions.thenation.com.
@theintercept.com
Fearless, adversarial journalism. Join our newsletter to get our best investigative reporting delivered to you: https://theintercept.com/newsletter/
@emptywheel.bsky.social
Coverage of American authoritarianism with a focus on legal cases. An American-Irish in Limerick, Ireland. Legendary potty mouth!
@attackerman.bsky.social
Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR: HOW THE 9/11 ERA DESTABILIZED AMERICA & PRODUCED TRUMP, contributor to Zeteo, IRON MAN for Marvel. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com Signal: attackerman.81
@dahlialithwick.bsky.social
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
@charliesavage.bsky.social
The New York Times national security and legal reporter. Not the Welsh footballer, Roddy Doyle character or 19th Century adventurer in Fiji.
@lisahajjar.bsky.social
Sociologist of law and conflict. I write about torture, war crimes, military courts and occupations. Ask me about Guantánamo.