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Camp Justice is the name given to the portion of the
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Initially the complex was to be a permanent facility, costing over $100 million. The
Camp Justice is the name given to the portion of the Guantanamo Bay Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay Naval Base ( es, Base Naval de la Bahía de Guantánamo), officially known as Naval Station Guantanamo Bay or NSGB, (also called GTMO, pronounced Gitmo as jargon by members of the U.S. military) is a United States military bas ...
where the Guantanamo military commissions
ThGuantanamo military commissionswere established by President George W. Bush – through a Military Order – on November 13, 2001, to try certain non-citizen terrorism suspects at the Guantanamo Bay prison. To date, there have been a total of e ...
are held.
It was named by TSgt Neil Felver of the 122 Civil Engineering Squadron in a name the camp contest.
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Initially the complex was to be a permanent facility, costing over $100 million. The
United States Congress
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overruled the Bush Presidency
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's plans.
Now the camp will be a portable, temporary facility, costing approximately $10 million.
On 2 January 2008 ''Toronto Star
The ''Toronto Star'' is a Canadian English-language broadsheet daily newspaper. The newspaper is the country's largest daily newspaper by circulation. It is owned by Toronto Star Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary of Torstar Corporation and pa ...
'' reporter Michelle Shephard
Michelle Shephard (born 1972) is an independent investigative reporter (previously with the ''Toronto Star'' newspaper), author and filmmaker.
She has been awarded the Michener Award for public service journalism and won Canada's top newspaper p ...
offered an account of the security precautions reporters go through before they can attend the hearings:
*Reporters were not allowed to bring in more than one pen;
*Female reporters were frisked if they wore underwire bra
An underwire bra (also under wire bra, under-wire bra, or underwired bra) is a brassiere that utilizes a thin, semi-circular strip of rigid material fitted inside the brassiere fabric to help lift, separate, shape, and support a woman's breasts. ...
s;
*Reporters were not allowed to bring in their traditional coil-ring notepads;
*The bus bringing reporters to the hearing room is checked for explosives before it leaves;
*200 metres from the hearing room reporters dismount, pass through metal detectors, and are sniffed by chemical detectors for signs of exposure to explosives;
*Only eight reporters are allowed into the hearing room—the remainder watch over closed circuit TV;
On 1 November 2008 David McFadden of the ''Associated Press
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'' stated the 100 tents erected to hold lawyers, reporters and observers for the military commissions were practically deserted when he and two other reporters covered Ali Hamza al-Bahlul
Ali Hamza Ahmad Suliman al-Bahlul (born September 11, 1969) is a Yemeni citizen who has been held as an enemy combatant since 2002 in the United States Guantanamo Bay detention camp. He boycotted the Guantanamo Military Commissions, arguing that ...
's military commission in late October 2008.
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