6 detainees 60 hard cases 86 people 183 waterboarding incidents 186 detainees 229 detainees are still at Guantanamo 232 detainees 241 detainees 241 Guantanamo detainees 245 detainees 300 detainees 779 detainees 1984 2001 Abdellatif Laabi abdication a black hood abolition of rights for non-nationals Abraham Lincoln absolute victim abstract democratic order Abu Ghraib photographs abuse abusive interrogations Abu Zubaydah a cause becomes violent accept everything accuracy of information accusation a civilian lawyer a collar was looped around my neck and then used to slam me against the walls of the interrogation room a country already reduced to rubble a Court of Inquiry acquisition of possession A crime is a crime activist political context a damaging symbol to the world a dark and secret universe to hold and interrogate captured terrorists ad hoc method Advice Afghanistan a Fourth Amendment seizure aftermath of September 11 a gaze which each individual under its weight will end by interiorisation to the point that he is his own overseer agents of a foreign power agony a Government a just system AKP Alain Badiou a land leased by the United States Alfredo Jaar all of them are defendants All the same their glances weighed heavily upon K. and he made what haste he could to his room keeping close against the wall almost murdered the poetry in me Al Qaeda alternative measures alternative procedure A man is in prison he is not waiting he has no time to lose ambiguous ambiguous and uncertain fringe at the intersection of the legal and the political America's decline America's security America got what it fantasized about and this was the greatest surprise American army's prisoners American Isolation American justice American Notes for General Circulation American politics Americans don't want to know why American values Ammiel Alcalay a moral stain a myth an accused man an appropriate trial anarchy an army takeover an emblem of the curtain dropped between him and the living world a new deportation regime a new regime a new type of gaze an infraction an innocent man an inspecting gaze anti-Americanism anti-terror anti-terrorism anti-terrorist antigovernment antigovernment plot inquiry antiquity and continuance antisecularist activity appall April 14 to July 4 A Prison of Words a prison where the walls are made of glass the guards are watching the inmates the inmates are watching the guards a prudent Prince a purely evil Outside a pure relation of power Arab-Muslim arbitrary detention arbitrary police conduct are good laws and good arms. You cannot have the former without the latter army arraignment under preliminary admittance of guilt arrest arrestee Article 14 Article 48 Article 68 a screening center a sensible man a shepherd of men a situation of necessity a sole Prince a space devoid of law assailant assaulting the body assaulting the self assurance assuring American security a State a superb formula a suspected plot a suspension of the constitution a symbol of wholeness A symbol of wholeness a utopia is a total closure of borders a totality of circumstances evidencing an involuntary admission of guilt attacked attempting to destroy the government authoritarian rule authority automatic search average person a very specific type of rationality a victim of infinite evil Awful Dread a wise Prince bad bad shepherds Bagram Barack Obama barbaric rage barbarism barbarous cruelties and oppressions baseless claims basic human rights BBC bearing witness Beating beatings by use of a collar Belonging to the Emperor Bentham Bentham's device Berkemer v. McCarty Berlusconi Bermuda betraying your country black sites blame bleak choices blind witness bodies thrown in wells body of the condemned bold spirit branded as terrorist broad presidential power broken system brought to justice brutal treatment of terrorism suspects Building bureaucratic backlog buried bodies Bush administration Bush Jr. Bush Sr. But the fact that I am supposed to be under arrest forces me to intervene by the common law C.I.A C.I.A prisons campaign of fear cancer of democracy captive silhouettes Carl Schmitt Carrying Rain Carrying the sky Ceaseless Cell centralised observation chaos charged charges Charles Dickens chilling documents Chinese prisoners circumstances circumstantial civilian law civil war classified evidence Clock closed cases closing of Guantanamo coercion coercive coercive interrogation methods Cold collective memory collective moment Combatant Status Review Tribunals command and administer commander in chief commander in chief of the army common sense commonsense inquiry competent tribunal complete control condemnation Condoleezza Rica condoning torture confession confessions confinement in a box conflict confrontation constitution-making dictatorship constitutional constitutional dictatorship constitutional distinctions constitutional law constitutional protection constitutional responsibilities constitutional rights constitutional standards construed contingent psychological factors control conundrum conventional war convicted convicts convinced under torture corpus of criminal cost of power could have Could his body possibly be meditating a revolution and preparing a new trial for him since he was withstanding the old one with such ease? Country coup court courtroom creation of migrant and refugee prisons crime crime prevention and detection criminal investigation criminal legislation criterion of reason critique of violence cross-examination cruel and inhumane treatment cruel forms of punishment cruel inhuman degrading treatment cultural memory curtain dropped between him and the living world custodial interrogation custody Cüneyt Ülsever daily tampering with the mysteries of the brain damn ancestors dangerous men dangerousness of many Guantanamo detainees dark moral epic of torture darkness offers protection Dark Rain dark room dealing with War on Terror as an artist declared missing decree deep state defense Defense of the Realm Act defense of the state definition of terrorism definitions degrading Delamare's Compendium Delicious social menace Delicious tumors delusion democracy democracy in developing countries democracy methods democratic order denationalised deportation derangement of the nervous system Desert of the Real Desperate Loneliness Desperate Loneliness of Ghazali destructive power detachment detain detained detainee detainee issues detainees Detaining Power detaining suspects detention detention cell detention center detention of terrorism suspects detentions law deterrence detriment of justice Dianne Feinstein Dick Cheney disaffected people discipline discipline and law Discipline and Punish disclosure discord disinterested morality dispensation of justice displeasing prisoner Distinction distributing rights of protection differentially Diyarbakir Prison doctrinal consistency Domestic Security Enhancement Act of 2003 dominant paradigms domineer Donald Rumsfeld DORA Drinking emptiness drowsy sound dual judicial system each individual exercizing this surveillance over and against himself ecclesiastical ecclesiastical princedoms economic agenda economic cost of power elegant betrayal emergency legislation emergency procedures emergency situation Emperor Empire Empire's Mode of Governance Empire of Good enemies enemy enemy combatant enemy combatants erased as legal subjects erasing the boundaries of law Ergenekon escapism established states Eternal ethics ethos EU everyday social reality evidence evidence given voluntarily Examining Magistrate exceptional laws exception becoming the rule excesses of political power exchecquer exculpatory execution execution of Socrates executive orders executive power exemptions exhibiting experience knowledge power extracting information extraordinary character of terror extraordinary program fair trial faithful citizen faith in the government fancied emergency Fascism fatal dark moments favour fear federal courts Fifth Amendment fight against terrorism fighting a terrorist organization fight terrorism Flag fooling an innocent man forced feeding forced from their beds force of law foreign foe foreign war Forgetting For however strong you may be in respect of your army it is essential that in entering a new Province you should have the good will of its inhabitants. formally arrested for men are always averse to enterprises that are attended with much circumspection For one change always leaves a dovetail into which another will fit forsaken place Fort Bragg for that war is just which is necessary foul imagination Fourth fourth amendment Franz Kafka freed freedom freedom of speech free from all restraint or interference of others free men free nation free society free to leave frisk fundamental liberties fundamental rights of citizens Gaddafi gathering of intelligence gears of intelligence Geneva Conventions Geneva Refugee Convention George Bush George Orwell George W. Bush Ghazali Giorgio Giorgio Agamben Gitmo global civil war God bless the United States of America good arms good laws good shepherds governance through law governance through management governance through the administration of the absence of order government lawyers great transformations occuring in our society Gripped Guantanamo Guantanamo Bay Guantanamo Camp Guantanamo detainees Guantanamo detention camp Guantanamo inmates Guantánamo Bay detainees Guantánamo Limbo Guards guidelines for interrogations guilt half hungry half full half slave hard cases harsh interrogation methods having trouble enough in acquiring but none in preserving what he had acquired He's only obeying the orders of the Examining Magistrate and carrying me to him. hearsay hearsay evidence Heat heavy dungeon-door heavy glances hegemonic action he is a man buried alive held indefinitely without trial Herbert Muschamp he resolved to make himself Prince He revives the scream of silence high-level Qaeda suspects high-value detainees high-value prisoner High Contracting Party Hiibel his mind quite blank historical events history his whole term of imprisonment holder of a supreme power hope over fear hostile governments Hot how are relations of power rationalized? how does one make art out of information that most of us would rather ignore how does one make art when the world is in such a state human dignity and privacy humane-treatment requirements humane treatment humanization? human rights human rights official hundreds of detainees hunger-striking detainees hunger strike hunger strikes Hursit Tolon Hush Bertold is watching us Hürriyet I'm cold. But not sad. I am under arrest you know identity as nonidentity If it was one of the high Judges were flogging I certainly wouldn't try to keep you from laying on with a will on the contrary I would pay you extra to encourage you in the good work If we the people shall save ourselves from our leaders' shame I have seen hell I have stayed in its prisons. illegal organizations illegal ultranationalist organization illegal wiretapping illegitimate violence illicit I love my country I have swung on its plane trees I have stayed in its prisons imcriminate imminent death immunity from prosecution imperial law implementing extraordinary measures implicating the Amendment Important Things imprison imprisoned imprisonment improvements including increasing human contact for the prisoners in-custody questioning in a crisis one must control oneself-if he had not shrieked then K. in all probability at least would have found some other means of persuading the Whipper. inarticulate hunch inaugural address incarceration In conflict resistless each toil they endur’d incrimination inculpatory in custody indctment indefinite detention indefinitely independence independent indicators of crisis indignation individualisation individualising power I never saw sunlight infamous document Infinite Justice infinite prison cell Inflicting objecthood informant information infringement on personal liberty inherent executive power inhuman inhumane initial reception inmate inmates inmates were forced to eat human excrement innocence innocent Innocuous/innocent/malignant/malicious inquiry inscribe the state of emergency into a legal context insolence institutionalising the gaze insulting Turkishness intelligence intent intentional state of emergency inter-rogation interiorisation internal/infernal Internal/infernal/infinite cell international criticism International Organisation for Migration internment internment camps in Libya interrogating Ezra Pound Interrogation interrogator interrogators in the midst of crisis intimacy intimidation intrusion intrusion upon the sanctity of the person investigate further investigation investigations investigative stop investigator invisible invisible prisons Iraq Iraq: The Borrowed Kettle Iraqi insurgents Iraqi MacGuffin Iraqi weapons of mass destruction Iraq rhetoric irrevocable Is God innocent? Islam Islamic-oriented conservatism Islamic-rooted government isolated prison isolation isolation areas isolation of the prisoner from all human society it is easy to persuade them of a thing it is hard to fix them in that persuasion It is the high officials who are guilty It is time to get rid of it. It was a pity that he had given Franz a push at the last moment the state of agitation he was in was his only excuse It was like a cage. iustitium I was given no solid food during the first two or three weeks I was seized in bed before I could get up. Jack Bauer Jack Bauer would be delighted. Jacques Ranciere jailed Jewel on the Left Side of Your Chest Josef K. judge judicial control judicial framework judicial process Judith Butler June 2004 Supreme Court ruling jurisdiction just a gaze justice justice and law justice in Turkey justice of the cause justify K. kangaroo courts keeping close against the wall Khalid Shaikh Mohammed killing for the state Labyrinth of thoughts language law law's basic purpose law enforcement lawful lawful combatants laws and customs of war lawyer leadership leading citizen least dangerous legacy of George W. Bush legal boundaries legal civil war legal considerations legal existence legality of torture legal order legal protection for US citizens legal punishment legal right and pure vilolence legal status legal void legal wiretapping legislation legislative organ legitimacy legitimate violence Letters Letters from Çankırı Prison liberal democracy liberation can only come from attacking political rationality's very roots Liberty liberty to leave Licence limbo limited national emergency limited scope limitlessness limits of our bodies Lots of things happen in this world Love the Muslims! Love thy neighbor! MacGuffin Man martial law Mary Anne Staniszewski May God bless you all memory memory was worn out by the authority memory without a mirror mental torment mercenaries Michel Foucault migration control military intervention military law military people military tribunal military tribunals Miranda v. Arizona Mirrors mishandled evidence mishaps mock executions modern prison equipment Mohammed Ahmed Abdullah Saleh al Hanashi Mohammed al-Qahtani monitoring moral stain moral standing of the United States moral ties binding the shepherd to each member of his flock Moroccan poet most dangerous Muslims mutiny My Country Nailed to the sky nation-state national power national security national security issues Nazim Hikmet necessary measures necessity Neck need to get a lawyer need to know need to share neutralise virtual threats neutralization of danger neutralizing the difference between private and public Nevada New Order new vision for refugees New York Times Niccolo Machiavelli no legal existence nomos and anomy non-nationals No one wanted to get in trouble by going overboard No right is held more sacred normalization of body intrusion in public space no sky not here? nothing to destroy Nothing will be the same after September 11. Not Unhappy nudity nurturing revenge in society O'Brien Obama administration observation off-shore centres oil old omnipotent omnipresent omniscience of the Inspector omniscient on grounds of humanity oppression orange uniforms order in the state of emergency Order of Things or is more carefully guarded or mixed Osama Bin Laden otherness our country left almost without life Our mission in Iraq is clear. our nation is at war against a far-reaching network of violence and hatred Our Thought outlaw prison out of sight out of mind Outside outside of the law outside the law overborne Overground overriding American and international law oversight of intelligence agencies panopticism paradigm of government paradoxical particular weight to the information passion of the Real pat-down Patriot II patrolling patting down peace penalization penal repression penitence penitentiary Pentagon Pentagon study People v. Hall perceiving the circumstances permanent state of exception persecution persecution paranoia persistance personal security petty indignity Philadelphia Society for Ameliorating the Miseries of Public Prisons philosophy undermines the citizens' loyalty physical torment poem Poetry point of disequilibrium between public law and political fact police police custody police dominated police interrogation political art political cost of power political crime political expediency political imprisonment political reason politico-constitutional life possessing now neither the quality nor the quantity of humanity possession possible enemies potentially dangerous pouring out hatred of oppression power Power/Knowledge power exercised continuously power is not a substance power is only exercised at a cost power struggle POWs practical reasons precise legal terms preservation of the peace president President Bush presidential dictatorship President Obama presumed dead primitive conditions Princedom Prison prison camps prisoner prisoner-abuse cases Prisoner A Prisoner B prisoner of war prisoners prisoners in Guantanamo prisoners of war Prison Fountain Prison Garden prisons prisons in the United States Prison Yard privacy private intimacy of a domestic domain private property private vs. public pro-government probable-cause probable cause to arrest prolonged exposure to the cold prolonged stress standing proper evidence prosecution prospective victims protected democracy protecting national security protecting the American people protecting the democracy protection protection and defense of privacy protective search protocols governing civilized conflict provocation public and private liberties public knowledge public order public Safety public sphere of the state public trial punishment pure violence pure violence abroad pure violence in order to enjoy it in full freedom quaint questioning quiet that prevails rationale rationalisation rationalisation and power rationalisation and the excesses of political power rationality of state power raw power re-structuring political power real evidence reality is its own semblance reason reasonable reasonable ground reasonable judgment reasonable person reason of state rebel Recep Tayyip Erdogan reception camps for asylum seekers redefining refoulement Regarding the Pain of Others release releasing terrorists religion remain silent in the face of police questioning rendition repatriated repatriation representing a country representing no country republic Republic of Turkey request permission to do X resettling detainees responsibility of a president rhetoric of human rights rigged right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person right of living rights of detainees right to privacy right to remain silent role of reason in political structures Roof Rope Rubaiyat Ruined Walls of the King of Kings rule rule of law inside the national territory rule of the constitution Rumsfeld sacredness of life sadden safe from public scrutiny Saudi scream and blood had become my poetry search search incident search of an area search of a person suspected of criminal activity secessionist terrorist campaign secret secret evidence secret prisons secret sites secret witnesses secularists secure hold security security assessment of the men seize seizure self-incrimination selfhood Sener Eruygur sense of self separating law from politics separation of powers September 11 Service shelter of authority shutting Guantanamo silencing critics Silent blood Silivri simple fact of its exteriority single bright lamp in the middle single largest source of insight into Al Qaeda sitting six by nine foot boxes Slavoj Žižek sleep deprivation slightly irrational social commitment social space social war society's need for interrogation outweighs the privilege society is not grounded in nature. Solemn Duty solitary confinement solitude Sorrow sovereign powers sovereign states sovereignty special detention system specific type of political rationality the state produced standard set by the constitution state state's strength state-sanctioned violence stateless organizations state of emergency state of exception state of siege stipulated rules stop Strapped stress positions stretching jurisdiction strong external borders strong nationalist overtones struggle toward democracy subjection subjects Subversive mirror suffocation by water suicidal mission suicide suicide tactic summary executions Sunny Wall superstructure supervision suppress supremacy of law surveillance surveillance involves very little expense Susan Crawford Susan Sontag suspects suspension of the legal order in its totality suspicion Suspicious sustained isolation System of Thought Süleyman Demirel tackling social and historical problems as artists take care of himself Taliban target terrorism terrorism suspects terrorist attacks terrorist network terrorists terror suspects Terry v. Ohio than the right of every individual to the possession and control of his own person That's nothing out of the common here almost everybody has an attack of that kind the first time they come here that means I have all the more reason to fear him for though he may not be able to influence the outcome of the case he can probably influence the preliminary interrogations that the inside of this legal system was just as loathsome as its external aspect That was not an arrangement likely to inspire much respect and for an accused man it was reassuring to reckon how little money this Court could have at its disposal when it housed its offices in a par the accused the age of the War on Terror the aura of authority surrounding an armed uniformed officer The barbarity of which spectacle at once astounded and satisfied the populace the battle between spies and terrorists the body as the major target of penal repression The Bush White House long insisted that the president had inherent power as commander in chief to do whatever it took to defend the country The C.I.A used an alternative set of procedures the Case the central paradox of police the City the concept of border the contingent thresholds of privacy the coup indictments the court the crime perpetrated against thousands of American lives can be immediately considered a crime perpetrated against the Empire of Good itself The day will come when the AKP will be forced to account the deity the designated enemy the difficulty of maintaining possession the direction of Turkey the Empire The End of the Separation of Powers the enshrinement of lawlessness within the law the executive The Eye of Power the federal torture statute The final lesson of Vietnam is that no great nation can long afford to be sundered by a memory the furnace of the battle the gaze and interiorisation the government of men by men the guilt The guilt lies with the organization the impotent acting out the judiciary The Justice Department the king the King reigns but he does not govern the Law the law apportions the law has limited applicability the leader the legal form of that which can have no legal form the legal system in Turkey the link between prince and state The little wooden stairway did not reveal anything no matter how long one regarded it the loaf The main foundations of all States the major qualities an interrogator should possess are patience and perseverance the memory of their former freedom will not let them rest the metaphor of the flock The Middle East the Miranda rule the Muslim Other The Mystical Foundation of Authority the nation's global image the new order the new Prince then the shriek rose from Franz's throat single and irrevocable it did not seem to come from a human being but from some martyred instrument the whole corridor rang with it the whole building must hea The Obama administration the Office of Professional Responsibility the old order the one who can proclaim a state of emergency The only comprehensible and acceptable one was that he was an accused man and wished to know the date of his next interrogation the organization the Other the overseer's gaze the overseer's gaze capture the inmate more effectively than darkness the panopticon the penal system the Pentagon the People the police sees to everything pertaining to men's happiness the police sees to everything regulating society carried on between men the political system transforms into an apparatus of death the present circumstances the president's inherent power the Prince the principle of the dungeon is reversed the problem of visibility of bodies the public the public acceptance of the rulings the raw Real of a catastrophe the real horror happens there the real truth the reason of state There is no sitting today the relation between right and fact the Republic the republic's prosecutors There was an intense rage in these words but there was also the insolence of a future official of the Court addressing a displeasing prisoner the rule of law The safe Sphere in which American live the safest course is either to destroy them or to go and live in them the Same these are the accused man These procedures were designed to be safe to comply with our laws our Constitution and our treaty obligations the sky the sky has disappeared the spirit of the Constitution the State The state cannot murder but The state cannot murder its citizens The State of Emergency the State of Exception the Taliban the temper of the multitude is fickle the theory of police the Thought the topological structure of the state of emergency the torture memo The Trial the troops the United States government The US has assured us that these people are the least dangerous people the very existence and nature of the state itself the Vietnam War the void the war against terror the War on Terror The war reached our shores on September 11. the Western political system the whip-man the whipper the world of evil the world of good They don't show much consideration for the public this dark shroud this dreadful punishment this first interrogation must also be the last This is a fight between good and evil this is a war that is no war This kind of desperation is caused by the uncertainty of not knowing whether one will ever be released or even charged this melancholy house This nation will not wait to be attacked again. This Third World War is raging those people threat threatened threat of total destruction thresholds of privacy Till their foes shrunk dismay’d from the war’s desolation to be dug out in the slow round of years Today Today you have let freedom ring to discuss him as if he were an inanimate object indeed he actually preferred that to govern to hold by violence and without obligation to others the authority which had been spontaneously entrusted to him To kill for the state and being killed for the state are equally sacred for us Tony Blair to reign torture torture as a public spectacle torture as staple of humanity Torture destroys justice total destruction totalisation totalitarian collectives To the Muslim world we seek a new way forward based on mutual interest and mutual respect transfer transfer of detainees transformation of the judicial system trial tried truth commission Try trying Turk Turkey Turkey Coup Plot Turkey is a democracy Turkish government turning our country into a mafia and terror haven two opposed humours ultra-nationalist ultranationalist group un-executing the law uncivilized people uncivilized violence unconscionable unconstitutional uncooperative under arrest Underground undermining America's security underscore the consistency of the detailed allegations provided separately unfair unimaginable Impossible happened unique situation United States prisons universality universal jurisdiction unlawful combat unlawful enemy combatant unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law unnoticed by the public unreasonable unstoppable vessels of uncivilized violence unusual conduct US: cradle of democracy USA Patriot Act Us from Them US soil utopia utopian vagueness valour vast powers venerable ordinances of Religion Vietnam War villagers were forced to eat excrement in village squares in full view of other villagers violence violence as a principle violence is a product of nature? virtuous paths visibility of bodies visible visible prison voluntariness voluntary confession Waiting walling Walter Benjamin war warders War on Terror war on terrorism war unto death Wasn't he still free enough to flout the authority of this Court once and for all at least as far as it concerned him? Was the plane which hit the WTC tower not literally the ultimate Hitchcockian blot the anamorphic stain which denaturalized the idyllic well-known New York landscape? Watching waterboarding we'll have to deal with it in a unique way We are a nation of Christians and Muslims We Prisoners of the Infinite we remain the most prosperous powerful nation on Earth we wanted to see it again and again We will defend our freedom. We will take the fight to the enemy. what does it mean to act politically? what is abroad? When the law marks a point of arrest just as the sun in its solstice when the state of emergency becomes the rule whether new whether violence could be a moral means even to just ends which I don't understand but which there is no need to understand whipping white box who counts as a human wholeness who merits protection and who does not why? wielding power is a duty Wilderness of mirrors Windowless Windowless Room wire-mesh cages wiretapping witch-hunt without charge without real-world effects even the most elegant new legal arguments are nothing but words without trial witness Woodrow WIlson World Worshipping Death wrong is made infinite WTC towers collapsing Yemen Yemenis Yesterday You're only under arrest nothing more