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The Sorkin-scripted drama won't focus on Hamdan's guilt or innocence, but will instead follow the efforts of Swift and Katyal to sue the (former) president, arguing that the U.S. government had broken the law and violated the Constitution.
George Clooney Heads To Guantanamo For Aaron Sorkin’s ‘Challenge’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009
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According to Moukalled, traditional media took at least two days to publish or broadcast news of Hamdan's arrest.
Magda Abu-Fadil: Lebanese TV Journalist Diana Moukalled Breaks the Mold Magda Abu-Fadil 2011
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In August 2008, when another detainee, Salim Hamdan, was sentenced, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for detainee affairs said in a memo on Hamdan's incarceration that U.S.
U.S. lacks policy on housing detainees convicted in military commissions 2010
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Hamdan's story could fill a movie, and Poitras does justice to the legal maneuvers that landed Hamdan v. Rumsfeld before the Supreme Court.
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Although one is technically free, Jandel seems as much in prison as the face that we never see and the voice we never hear, Hamdan's.
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But the center of "The Oath" turns out to be a man whom Poitras met in Yemen and whose case is less clear-cut: Hamdan's brother-in-law, the man who recruited him for al-Qaida, Abu Jandal.
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For an hour, Poitras moves back and forth between Jandal and the driver Hamdan, whose U.S. attorneys win their Supreme Court case and who is then re-charged under Congress's 2006 Military Commissions Act. As Poitras 'camera roams the eerie, nearly empty Guantanamo grounds, we hear excerpts from Hamdan's letters to his wife and children, which are not so much angry as anguished and bewildered.
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Although one is technically free, Jandel seems as much in prison as the face that we never see and the voice we never hear, Hamdan's.
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And Jandal, in Yemen, is anguished, too: He feels guilt for having recruited Hamdan, guilt when he sees Hamdan's wife and children.
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Ten months on, I stand by those words, and note that, although judges have now granted the habeas appeals of 29 of the 36 prisoners whose cases they have considered, nothing about the cases of the other seven men prevents Hamdan's freedom from casting a longer and longer shadow over their continued detention.
Andy Worthington: No Escape From Guantanamo: The Latest Habeas Rulings 2009
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