This may well not be for the fainthearted.
Two attorneys from St. Johnsbury, Robert Gensburg and David Sleigh, who have represented Guantanamo detainees, are two of the featured readers at a program from which the title of this post takes its name.
It's set for Monday, April 12 at 7pm, Memorial Lounge of the Waterman Library on the UVM campus.
Delving a bit into the history of this, I found something I'd missed.
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Rutland Herald:
A Vermont lawyer representing a client being held at Guantanamo, Cuba, is worried that his phone is being tapped by the federal government.
He ought to be. The federal government may have interpreted the revised federal surveillance law to allow it to wiretap the lawyers of Guantanamo prisoners.
The Vermont Public Service Board heard testimony last week about the suspicions of lawyer Bob Gensburg of St. Johnsbury, who says his phone line has inexplicably gone dead and has been subject to strange buzzing noises. Gensburg is one of Vermont's most respected lawyers, and he is not likely to be imagining these occurrences or to be making them up.
Perhaps attorney Gensburg will address that issue, as well as many others involving the use of enhanced interrogation torture by the U.S government in the wake of 9/11/2001.
Both attorneys Gensburg and Sleigh have been featured on VPR's Vermont Edition to discuss their work on Guantanamo detainee cases.
MAterial to be presented will include documents obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union through FOIA requests or court order. Some of the material to be covered is here.
I was then dragged from the small box, unable to walk properly and put on what looked like a hospital bed, and strapped down very tightly with belts. A black cloth was then placed over my face and the interrogators used a mineral water bottle to pour water on the cloth so that I could not breathe. After a few minutes the cloth was removed and the bed was rotated into an upright position. The pressure of the straps on my wounds was very painful. I vomited. The bed was then again lowered to a horizontal position and the same torture carried out again with the black cloth over my face and water poured on from a bottle. On this occasion my head was in a more backward, downwards position and the water was poured on for a longer time. I struggled against the straps, trying to breathe, but it was hopeless. I thought I was going to die.
In the Burlington area, the program will also air on RETN. More information is here.
Featured readers include:
* Philip Baruth, UVM English professor and writer
* David Budbill, writer
* Stephanie Farrior, Vt. Law School international law professor
* Robert Gensburg, Guantanamo detainee laywer
* Traci Griffith, Saint Michael's College communications professor
* Ateqah Khaki, ACLU National Security Program staff
* Hilary Neroni, UVM film studies professor
* Adelit Rukomangana, former priest and native of Rwanda
* David Sleigh, Guantanamo detainee lawyer
* Emma Vick, UVM student
* Sydnee Viray, social worker, advocate, and UMV staff member
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