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220:(2008), the Supreme Court ruled that the MCA was unconstitutional, as detainees could not be deprived of their fundamental right of habeas corpus. It also ruled that they could access federal courts directly, which the Bush administration had sought to prevent. Numerous actions were refiled in federal courts. 211:. The legislation was signed in October. Passed by Congress to authorize the military tribunals the administration wanted for trying detainees, its provisions included a restriction against detainees using federal courts for habeas corpus actions. All pending habeas cases were stayed as a result of the act. 236:, was used to hold captives who were under consideration for being recruited as double agents, who would surreptitiously penetrate, and inform on, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other groups suspected of being allied with them. Its name, Penny Lane, like Strawberry Fields, was taken from a song from the 85:
agents thought they had learned most of the information to be extracted from these individuals. At the time, the CIA thought the men could be held securely and secretly at Guantanamo, without any prospect of the public learning that they had been subjected to what United States courts have determined
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to challenge their detention before an impartial forum, and none had seen counsel. Up until that time, no detainees had been able to challenge the grounds of his detention. The Supreme Court's ruling would have compelled at least some information about the four detainees to be publicly revealed.
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On May 15, 2006, the DOD published a list of 759 names, which included persons held at the camp from January 2002 to May 15, 2006. By 2006, hundreds had already been released without charges. This list did not include Abu Zubaydah, Abd al-Nashiri, Ramzi bin al-Shibh or Mustafa al-Hawsawi.
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for its ruling in 2004, the CIA took the four men back into their custody. Apuuzo and Goldman report the Bush government returned the men to CIA custody three months before the Supreme Court's ruling, to avoid the possibility of having to release any information about them.
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and military commissions was unconstitutional, as the executive branch had set up a separate justice system outside the federal and military systems, which was not authorized by Congress. The administration worked to gain legislation for its goals.
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Mr. Foggo, nicknamed Dusty, was known inside the agency as a cigar-waving, bourbon-drinking operator, someone who could get a cargo plane flying anywhere in the world or quickly obtain weapons, food, money — whatever the C.I.A.
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Some of the men who passed through Penny Lane helped the CIA find and kill many top al-Qaida operatives, current and former U.S. officials said. Others stopped providing useful information and the CIA lost touch with
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These four men and ten other "high-value detainees" were transferred from CIA to military custody at Guantanamo in September 2006, by which time the Bush administration was assured of passage of the
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But those aware of the cottages knew it best by its sobriquet, Penny Lane, a nod to the Beatles song and a riff on the CIA's other secret facility at Guantánamo, a prison known as Strawberry Fields.
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in August 2010, the men were removed from Guantanamo on March 27, 2004. Horton described the men's covert removal as an instance of "
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reported that the CIA operated a second secret camp on the Guantanamo Naval Base, from 2002 to as late as 2006. This base, called
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in August 2009. They quoted CIA officials, who said that the camp's nickname in 2003 was a reference to the Beatles' song "
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had to publish a list of all the detainees who had been held in Guantanamo by March 3, 2006.
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In continuing challenges to the secrecy imposed by the Bush administration, in January 2006,
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Camp five -- permanent facility modeled after a bureau of prison maximum security facility
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Camp six -- permanent facility modeled after a bureau of prison maximum security facility
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Died in custody.   * notes the place now is used commercially
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at various places in Europe, the Mideast, and Asia, including Afghanistan.
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Camp four -- more pleasant surroundings for the most compliant detainees
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Matt Apuzzo and Adam Goldman reported on August 7, 2010, for the
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Camp one -- April 2002 -- open air cages, but with plumbing
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The Supreme Court held that detainees had the right of
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Former captives alleged to have (re)joined insurgency
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Senate Intelligence Committee report on CIA torture
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Index

Strawberry Fields
Guantanamo Bay detention camps
Cuba
high value
ghost detainees
black sites
Associated Press
high value detainees
Abu Zubaydah
Abd al-Nashiri
Ramzi bin al-Shibh
Mustafa al-Hawsawi
CIA
torture
waterboarding
enhanced interrogation techniques
Office of Legal Counsel
Bush administration
Torture Memos
Mark Mazzetti
The New York Times
Strawberry Fields Forever
habeas corpus
Rasul v. Bush
United States Supreme Court
Scott Horton
Harper's Magazine
Three-Card Monte
US District Court Judge
Jed S. Rakoff

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