Guantanamo Files

• US soldier in WikiLeaks case had free access to secret files

  The soldier accused of the largest release of classified material in US history had wide-open access to secret files that could easily be downloaded, witnesses told a court-martial on Monday at the start of defense testimony.

• Prosecution wraps up case in US WikiLeaks court-martial

  Court-martial prosecutors wrapped up their case on Tuesday against the soldier charged with providing a trove of secret material to WikiLeaks in the biggest leak of classified files in US history.

• WikiLeaks: Pak said Gitmo detainees were innocent

  Many US Congressmen today made it clear that they don't buy Pakistan's reasons for not knowing that Osama Bin Laden was enjoying a sheltered life at a three-story mansion in Abbottabad, just down the road from its prestigious military academy.  Pakistani President Asif Zardari has insisted that his country  "did its part" even as America ...

• Guantanamo files: Judging detainees' risk, often with flawed evidence

  Said Mohammed Alam Shah, a 24-year-old Afghan who had lost a leg as a teenager, told interrogators at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, that he had been conscripted by the Taliban as a driver before being detained in 2001. He had been caught, he said, as he tried to "rescue his younger brother from the Taliban." Military analysts believed him. M...

• Classified Guantanamo files offer new insights into detainees

  A trove of more than 700 classified military documents provides new and detailed accounts of the men who have done time at the Guantánamo Bay prison in Cuba, and offers new insight into the evidence against the 172 men still locked up there. Military intelligence officials, in assessments of detainees written between February 2002 and January 2009...