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- Abdel Bari Atwan [r]: Analyst of Islamic politics and Editor of an independent U.K. based Arabic language based newspaper, Al-Quds Al-Arabi; has had access to Osama bin Laden but is also a frequent analyst in Western and Muslim media and academic publications [e]
- Ahmed Rashid [r]: Pakistani journalist and author, who has written highly regarded books on Central Asia, especially on the Taliban [e]
- Algerian Six [r]: The "Algerian Six" were six Bosnian citizens, originally from Algeria, who were sent to the Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
- America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy [r]: A 2006 book by Francis Fukuyama, examining the role of neoconservatism in American foreign policy, its execution by the George W. Bush Administration, and a proposed evolved political philosophy to replace it [e]
- Binyam Ahmed Mohammad [r]: an Ethiopian who was held in secret CIA custody, and later faced charges before a Guantanamo military commission. [e]
- Bisher Amin Khalil al-Rawi [r]: An Iraqi citizen, released in 2007, who was held in the Guantanamo Bay detention camp, but was believed to have had some relationships with the British Security Service before being detained; the detention may be related to his breaking off the relationship; he is a plaintiff in Mohamed et al. v. Jeppesen Dataplan, Inc. as well as British lawsuits [e]
- Bismullah v. Gates [r]: A U.S. appellate court decision that held that prisoners, in extrajudicial detention at Guantanamo Bay detention camp, had a right to have their defense attorneys review all the classified evidence in their client's dossier [e]
- Bob Woodward [r]: Add brief definition or description
- CIA influence on public opinion [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Combatant Status Review Tribunal [r]: An administrative hearing, held between 2004 and 2005, to determine if an individual under U.S. extrajudicial detention was an enemy combatant or entitled to prisoner of war status [e]
- Detainee Treatment Act [r]: A 2005 Congressional act specifying explicit standards for prisoners in the custody of the U.S. military [e]
- Director of Central Intelligence [r]: Formerly, the U.S. official that headed both the Central Intelligence Agency and the United States intelligence community; the responsibility is now split between the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (currently Leon Panetta) and the Director of National Intelligence (currently Dennis Blair) [e]
- Executive Order 12333 [r]: An order issued by Ronald Reagan, clarifying some authorities of, and restrictions on, the United States intelligence community [e]
- Extrajudicial detention, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: Policies and practices relevant to detention in intelligence and military facilities, the latter when no prisoner of war status was granted [e]
- Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr [r]: An Egyptian cleric, captured by U.S. and Italian intelligence officers in Italy, sent by extraordinary rendition to Egypt, and later released; Italy indicted intelligence personnel involved in the rendition and the trial is ongoing [e]
- Herblock [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Hiwa Abdul Rahman Rashul [r]: A "ghost prisoner", acknowledged held by the U.S. in 2004, whose current status and whereabouts are unknown; he was not among the CIA High Value Detainees transferred to Guantanamo Bay detention camp [e]
- Huzaifa Parhat [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Imad Kanouni [r]: A French citizen, held in Guantanamo, transferred to France, where he stood trial and was acquitted. [e]
- Intelligence interrogation, U.S., George W. Bush Administration [r]: The policies and practices authorized for interrogation of suspected terrorists by the United States Department of Defense and the United States intelligence community during the George W. Bush Administration [e]
- John Roberts [r]: The seventeenth and current Chief Justice of the United States [e]
- Kings of Chaos [r]: A text-based Massively Multiplayer Online Strategy Game. [e]
- L. Patrick Gray, III [r]: L. Patrick Gray III was a decorated Naval officer, lawyer, and acting Director of the FBI noted for being the Director of the FBI during the initial phases of the Watergate investigations. [e]
- Lewis Welshofer Jr. [r]: An American interrogator, convicted of negligent homicide in the suffocation death of an officer he was interrogating. [e]
- Linguistic prescriptivism [r]: The laying down or prescribing of normative rules for the use of a language, or the making of recommendations for effective language usage. [e]
- Mega Society [r]: A high IQ society open to people who have scored at the one-in-a-million level on a test of general intelligence credibly claimed to be able to discriminate at that level. [e]
- Meghan O'Sullivan [r]: Professor of International Affairs at the Harvard University Belfer Center; previously consultant to then-U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker, on the National Security Council, Coalition Provisional Authority, Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance, and the Policy Planning Staff of the U.S. Department of State [e]
- Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants [r]: In 2004 the DoD initiated annual reviews of whether they should continue to hold the Guantanamo captives or repatriate them. [e]
- Project for the New American Century [r]: neoconservative think tank and interest group, formed, in its words, to promote the foreign policy principles of the Reagan Administration: "a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States' global responsibilities;" actively supported regime change and preventive war in the Middle East [e]
- Robert Kagan [r]: U.S. foreign policy analyst and influencer; cofounder of the new Foreign Policy Initiative; senior associate, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, contributing editor at the New Republic and Weekly Standard, columnist, Washington Post; member, Council on Foreign Relations; fellow in American diplomatic history at American University; son of Donald Kagan and brother of Frederick Kagan [e]
- Sarah Palin [r]: (1964–) Governor of Alaska (2006–2009) and Republican Party vice presidential nominee (2008). [e]
- Stephen Abraham [r]: The first military legal officer, who served in the Combatant Status Review Tribunal system, to file an affidavit that the procedure was unfair [e]
- The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy [r]: A controversial book by two American academics, suggesting that the relationship between the United States and Israel is dysfunctional, but affected by a loose but politically powerful set of interest groups in both countries [e]
- Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology [r]: Add brief definition or description
- U.S. support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq War [r]: Technological aid, intelligence, the sale of dual-use and military equipment, but no direct combat against Iran, in the 1980-1988 Iran-Iraq War [e]
- USCG Island class [r]: A class of smaller United States Coast Guard cutters. [e]
- Whale meat [r]: The edible flesh of various species of whale. [e]
