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50. Alan Cowell, “U.S. ‘Thumbs Its Nose’ at Rights, Amnesty Says,” New York Times, May 26, 2005.
51. Dan Balz, “Durbin Defends Guantánamo Comments,” Washington Post, June 17, 2005.
52. Helene Cooper and William Glaberson, “At White House, Renewed Debate on Guantánamo,” New York Times, June 23, 2007; Walter Pincus, “Powell Calls for Closure of Military Prison at Guantánamo,” Washington Post, June 11, 2007.
53. Helene Cooper and William Glaberson, “At White House, Renewed Debate on Guantánamo,” New York Times, June 23, 2007.
54. Rumsfeld to Powell et al., “Guantánamo Detainees,” December 19, 2003.
55. Rumsfeld to Powell et al., “Guantánamo Detainees,” December 19, 2003.
56. Mark H. Buzby, “Guantánamo Is a Model Prison (Really),” Wall Street Journal, June 4, 2008.
57. Department of Defense news transcript, “Secretary Rumsfeld Remarks to Greater Miami Chamber of Commerce,” February 13, 2004.
58. Scott Higham and Peter Finn, “At Least $500 Million Has Been Spent Since 9/11 on Renovating Guantánamo Bay,” Washington Post, June 7, 2010.
59. Barack Obama, executive order, “Review and Disposition of Individuals Detained at the Guantánamo Bay Naval Base and Closure of Detention Facilities,” January 22, 2009.
CHAPTER 39 The Twentieth Hijacker
1. “Statement of Jose E. Melendez-Perez to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,” seventh public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, January 26, 2004.
2. “Statement of Jose E. Melendez-Perez to the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States,” seventh public hearing of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, January 26, 2004.
3. Press briefing by White House Counsel Judge Alberto Gonzales, DoD General Counsel William Haynes, DoD Deputy General Counsel Daniel Dell’Orto, and Army Deputy Chief of Stafffor Intelligence General Keith Alexander, June 22, 2004.
4. Department of Defense, Office for the Administrative Review of the Detention of Enemy Combatants at U.S. Naval Base Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, “Unclassified Summary of Evidence for Administrative Review Board in the Case of Al Qahtani, Maad,” January 17, 2008.
5. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), p. 248.
6. Department of Defense MC Form 458 (January 2007) for Khalid Sheikh Muhammed, Walid Muhammed Salih Mubarak Bin ‘Attash, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi, and Mohamed Al Kahtani.
7. “Substitution for the Testimony of Mohammad Manea Ahmad Al-Qahtani,” United States v. Moussaoui (Cr. No. 01-455-A).
8. The 9/11 Commission Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (New York: W. W. Norton, 2004), pp. 11, 235.
9. Department of Defense news release, “Guantánamo Provides Valuable Intelligence Information,” June 12, 2005.
10. Chris Mackey and Greg Miller, The Interrogators: Task Force 500 and America’s Secret War Against al Qaeda (New York: Back Bay Books, 2005), p. 472.
11. Department of Justice, Office of the Inspector General, “A Review of the FBI’s Involvement in and Observations of Detainee Interrogations in Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq,” revised October 2009.
12. Hill to Myers, “Counter-Resistance Techniques,” October 25, 2002.
13. Lieutenant Colonel Jerald Phifer to Major General Michael B. Dunlavey, “Request for Approval of Counter-Resistance Strategies,” October 11, 2002.
14. Lieutenant Colonel Jerald Phifer to Major General Michael B. Dunlavey, “Request for Approval of Counter-Resistance Strategies,” October 11, 2002.
15. Lieutenant Colonel Jerald Phifer to Major General Michael B. Dunlavey, “Request for Approval of Counter-Resistance Strategies,