JURIST – Paper Chase: Gitmo tapes 'as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib': A former lawyer for Australian terror suspect David Hicks [defense advocacy website] told a major law conference in Australia Monday that US military videotapes from the terror detention camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, would be “as explosive as anything from Abu Ghraib” if they were ever released. In his address to LawAsia Downunder 2005 [conference website] Stephen Kenny said that there are some 500 hours of video of actions by the Immediate Reaction Force (IRF) at the camp who were responsible for prisoner control, and that the ACLU was pressing for release of the tapes …
Recent Bluessky Posts- My brother @froomkin.bsky.social is the media critic, but in the unlikely event the Iran framework deal survives Trump learning what's actually in it, I hope the media explains the payments to Iran in understandable terms, e.g. deflating every $1 bn by 72 mill US households=$14. E.g. $300bn=>$4,200. June 15, 2026 Michael Froomkin
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