The Periodic Review Boards administrate a US "administrative procedure" for recommending whether certain individuals held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camps , in Cuba are safe to release or transfer, or whether they should continue to be held without charge. The boards are authorized by and overseen by the Periodic Review Secretariat , which President Barack Obama set up with Executive Order 13567 on March 7, 2011.
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58-577: A news blackout. Rosenberg and Carol J. Williams of the Los Angeles Times had arrived early to prepare for a June 12 tribunal hearing. Following the reported deaths, all hearings were cancelled, but Camp Commandant Harry Harris initially gave the two reporters permission to stay. Subsequently Commander Jeffrey D. Gordon , a DOD spokesman, announced that all the reporters were to be sent home. According to Gordon, other organizations had threatened to sue if their reporters were not also given access to
87-509: A number of video blogs. On February 5, 2019, The Washington Post 's media critic, Eric Wemple , reported McClatchy, the Miami Herald 's parent company, had announced that conditions within the news industry would force it to offer early retirement to senior staff, including Rosenberg. Wemple quoted former Miami Herald managing editor, Mark Seibel : Wemple quoted Charlie Savage , of The New York Times : In its reporting,
116-582: A pre-trial hearing of Guantanamo Military Commission of Khalid Sheikh Mohammed , seemed to indicate that Director of the Central Intelligence Agency , Gina Haspel , had been the "Chief of Base" of a clandestine CIA detention site in Guantanamo, in the 2003-2004 period. On July 22, 2009, Rosenberg was named in a sexual harassment complaint by the US Navy Commander , Jeffrey D. Gordon ,
145-547: A spokesman for DOD for the Western Hemisphere, including the Guantanamo detention camp, who complained that Rosenberg had used coarse language "of an explicitly sexual nature". When the complaint first broke, Carol Williams, a reporter at the Los Angeles Times and friend of Rosenberg, dismissed Gordon's letter, saying, "This is an attempt to discredit a journalist who has managed to transcend incredible odds to cover
174-488: A story of tremendous significance to the American public." Jamie McIntyre, a former CNN Pentagon correspondent, said of Rosenberg's interactions with Gordon: "I didn't think there was any sort of sexual abuse, unless you're telling me a naval officer, a sailor, isn't used to hearing anatomical references in anger. It sounds like an overreaction on everybody's part." He said Rosenberg "was always professional in her demeanor when I
203-573: A veto over any recommendation. Although Obama authorized the Secretariat to conduct periodic reviews in early 2011, the first review was not conducted until late 2013. On July 21, 2013, Carol Rosenberg , writing in the Miami Herald , reported that the announcement that the Boards would finally be convened followed a "flurry of emails" to the captives attorneys—after years of delay. Rosenberg noted that
232-590: Is a senior journalist at The New York Times . Long a military-affairs reporter at the Miami Herald , from January 2002 into 2019 she reported on the operation of the United States' Guantanamo Bay detention camps , at its naval base in Cuba . Her coverage of detention of captives at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp has been praised by her colleagues and legal scholars, and in 2010 she spoke about it by invitation at
261-681: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Periodic Review Board Senior Civil Service officials from six agencies sit on the Board: the United States Department of Defense , Homeland Security , Justice and State , and the offices of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Director of National Intelligence . Each member has
290-670: The Miami New Times pointed out that McClatchy's CEO Craig Forman received a bonus of $ 900,000 on top of his base salary of $ 823,846 and $ 552,684 in stock awards, in 2017, writing "while the news is soul-numbing for reporters, life is still apparently pretty good for Forman and the rest of the newspaper chain's corporate board." On February 20, 2019, the Pulitzer Center announced that The New York Times would be hiring Rosenberg. The Pulitzer Center had been covering part of Rosenberg's salary since 2018. After McClatchy's buyout offer,
319-757: The National Press Club . Rosenberg had previously covered events in the Middle East. In 2011, she received the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her nearly decade of work on the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. Carol Rosenberg was born to a Canadian mother and American father in Canada . Her family also lived in Northwood, North Dakota before moving to West Hartford , Connecticut . Her siblings include an older brother,
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377-572: The First Amendment. Awardees receive a trophy and $ 10,000. When Google was developing a small, standalone, computer, with built-in streaming video , called Google Glass , it chose a few thousand individuals who were invited to be beta testers . Rosenberg was selected to be a beta-tester. There was confusion, initially, when she first took the glasses to Guantanamo, as to whether she should be allowed to use them there. However, since August 2013, she has been allowed to use them, and she has posted
406-563: The Guantanamo captives, which was sent to her in response to a Freedom of Information Act request. The list Rosenberg was given contained 240 names and was dated January 22, 2010. It was the work of the Guantanamo Joint Task Force , which had been authorized on January 22, 2009 under the President Barack Obama administration. On January 8, 2019, Rosenberg broke a story describing how partially redacted transcripts from
435-603: The Obama Administration, the Board examined 63 detainees, recommending 37 of those to be transferred. Of the 693 total former detainees transferred out of Guantanamo, 30% are suspected or confirmed to have reengaged in terrorist activity. Of those detainees that were transferred out under President Obama, 5.6% are confirmed and 6.8% are suspected of reengaging in terrorist activity. The Board held its first hearing under President Donald Trump on February 9, 2017. Warning of
464-723: The Pentagon to inform the authorities of the paper's conclusions reached by their inquiry. In 2011, Rosenberg won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award for her reporting from Guantánamo Bay. In 2014, Rosenberg was honored by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press . On March 20, 2015, Rosenberg was listed as the 2015 awardee of the Scripps Howard Foundation 's Edward Willis Scripps Award for distinguished service to
493-729: The announcement from Norton C. Joerg , a former officer and senior lawyer with the United States Navy , came at the height of the most widespread Guantanamo hunger strike . Individuals who have faced charges, become eligible to have their status reviewed by a Periodic Review Board, if the charges they faced are dropped. In 2013, 24 new individuals who the Guantanamo Review Task Force had recommended should face charges, had those charges dropped, and became eligible for review, when appeals courts had overturned convictions for " providing material support for terrorism " . During
522-482: The area. At the time, Clarence Page wrote that at one point, Rosenberg and Susan Sachs of Newsday were barred by Pentagon officials from reporting on the 1st Marine Division 's activity during the 1991 Gulf War. She regularly worked to report activities that the government was trying to keep hidden. Since January 2002, Rosenberg has covered the Guantanamo Bay detention camp as her main field, together with associated United States Supreme Court cases affecting
551-414: The base. Rosenberg returned to Guantanamo. Her coverage has included the constraints on the press at that facility, which she has described as "outside the rule of law." On January 11, 2012, Rosenberg was interviewed by Public Radio International on the tenth anniversary of the arrival of the first twenty Guantanamo captives . On June 18, 2013, Rosenberg republished a list of the dispositions of
580-465: The bases' flagpoles, as new flags could mark the arrival of new military units; she also asked about them at briefings to keep up to date on the Americans stationed there. On the day the first camp commander was to leave the base, Rosenberg noticed a new flag, with unfamiliar heraldry. At his last briefing, the retiring camp commander told her that he would delay answering her questions about the flag until
609-518: The danger of recidivism, that same day eleven Republican Senators wrote a letter encouraging the President to immediately suspend the Board and to prohibit the transfer of any detainees. On February 6, 2018, the first full review during the Trump administration took place. Khalid Ahmed Qasim had had four file reviews since his first full review, on March 6, 2015. Carol Rosenberg Carol Rosenberg
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#1732844619619638-475: The detainees and camp operations. Her managing editor Rick Hirsh at the Miami Herald encouraged her to cover it "aggressively." She travels there monthly and has sometimes stayed for lengthy periods. Arriving after the US constructed the facility, she and other journalists saw the arrival of the first detainees. In addition to her written journalism, Rosenberg has spoken about Guantanamo, the government's constraints on
667-412: The end of the briefing. He presented Rosenberg with the flag, which he had ordered prepared specifically to honor her diligence in reporting. The heraldry was designed to represent her own personal history. Following the official report that three captives had committed suicide on June 10, 2006, camp authorities ordered Rosenberg and three other journalists there to leave the facility, temporarily causing
696-595: The late Joel Rosenberg (1954-2011), who became a writer of science fiction novels. She studied and graduated in 1981 from the University of Massachusetts Amherst . From her freshman year, she started writing for the university newspaper, the Massachusetts Collegian , and at one time was Editor-in-Chief. Rosenberg worked for a short time as a court reporter before starting with UPI in New England. In 1987, she
725-464: The press at the facility, and related issues of reporting on PBS's NewsHour and CBC Radio's international news program Dispatches . Rosenberg has covered in detail the conditions at the camps, the tribunals (also called terrorism trials) and, in 2006, the reported suicides of prisoners at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp. She explored the lives of prisoners, writing about one so afraid to return to his native Tajikistan that he asked to stay at
754-522: The prison in Cuba. She has described conditions, including the refrigeration of bottled water at the camp, where it is stored in a two-ton shipping refrigerator meant for the dead. Rosenberg has described tensions among the military, for example, one general verbally attacking another general as "abusive, bullying, unprofessional" in a dispute over trial tactics at the war court. In The Least Worst Place , Karen Greenberg described Rosenberg regularly scanning
783-515: The second review, on January 28, 2014, that of Abdel Malik al Rahabi, nine reporters and four human rights workers were allowed to observe a video-link to the 19 minute unclassified portion of the hearing. 69 other individuals can expect to have their status reviewed. Almost half of the individuals still at Guantanamo have already been cleared for release or transfer—some as long ago as 2005, so critics have questioned how meaningful it had been to clear Mahmud Abd Al Aziz Al Mujahid for release. Under
812-451: Was around her." On August 3, 2009, the Miami Herald reported that it had concluded its internal inquiry on the matter. After interviewing both reporters and other Guantanamo staff who would have been present during the incidents, the internal inquiry "did not find corroboration" for Gordon's claims. Its findings acknowledged that Rosenberg had used profanity. Elissa Vanaver, the Miami Herald' s Vice President of Human Resources, wrote to
841-415: Was assigned by UPI as its Jerusalem correspondent. During that period, she learned much about the region, and became accustomed to working in the Middle East. In 1990, Rosenberg was hired as a foreign correspondent by the Miami Herald ; she covered many international stories for them, including in war zones. She went to the 1991 Gulf War in the Middle East and conducted other extensive reporting from
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