'High-Risk' Detainees Released From Guantanamo
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The Guantanamo Papers
NPR News Investigations examines a massive trove of secret documents, which provide assessments of the 779 Guantanamo Bay detainees. The reports were leaked last year to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks and made available to The New York Times by another source on condition of anonymity and then shared with NPR.
Tracking The Guantanamo Detainees()
April 24, 2011 Who are the Guantanamo detainees? Where did they come from? What risk did they pose and who may have returned to terrorism or insurgency?
Military Documents Detail Life At Guantanamo()
April 25, 2011 Thousands of pages of secret military reports obtained by The New York Times and shared with NPR put a name, a history and a face on some of the hundreds of men held at the detention camp.
Detainees Freed, Transferred Despite 'High Risk'()
April 25, 2011 Hundreds of secret documents show that military and counterterrorism analysts sometimes found it difficult to determine whether those held in the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay were truly dangerous.
At Guantanamo, Big Threats Found In Small Clues()
April 29, 2011 Hundreds of classified documents from the Joint Task Force at Guantanamo provide a look at how military officials determined whom they had in custody and whether they might have ties to terrorism. Interrogators were trained to look for subtle clues — among them, a Casio F-91W watch, said to be the favored timepiece of al-Qaida bomb-makers.
Osama Bin Laden Killed
Did Harsh Interrogation Tactics Lead To Bin Laden?()
May 5, 2011 Documents from the Guantanamo detention camp show prisoners there and at secret CIA facilities were interrogated over and over about Osama bin Laden's courier network. About a third of the CIA detainees were subjected to what the agency euphemistically called enhanced interrogation techniques.
Judges Question Evidence On Detainees()
April 28, 2011 A side-by-side comparison of the Pentagon's secret Guantanamo detainee assessment briefs and federal court rulings shows that intelligence analysts and federal judges can reach starkly opposing conclusions from the same raw intelligence.
The Two-Way
Secret Documents: Guantanamo Interrogators Worked Without Nuance()
April 25, 2011 Secret documents reveal that interrogators at Guantanamo were ill prepared to gather reliable intelligence from prisoners at the camp. Some interrogators didn't have the language skills and would reward prisoners with McDonald's for being helpful.
The Two-Way
Guantanamo Papers Reveal A Great Deal, Reporter Says()
April 26, 2011 Carol Rosenberg of the Miami Herald has been reporting about the detention center for years. The previously secret documents, she says, tell us a lot about the ways U.S. personnel tried to determine which detainees were and were not dangerous.
Guantanamo Timeline: Key Events and Decisions()
April 24, 2011 After nearly a decade many questions remain about the policies of the detention center and the rights of the detainees who continue to be held there.
