Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Web Collection on Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes
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Abstract
The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Web Collection on Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes (2007-ongoing) contains archived websites of legal and grassroots organizations critical of American policy relating to Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and United States government treatment and torture of the detainees. It also includes government documents relating to detainee operations, abuses, and interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq.
Historical Note
The Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp was opened in 2002 in response to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001 to detain suspected terrorists and "enemy combatants" by the Bush administration. Due to the nature of Guantánamo not being on American territory, detainees were held by the American government without charges or trial and subject to human rights violations and abuse. Legal organizations, protestors, politicians, and international bodies have called for the closure of Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and worked to release detainees. As of this writing (January 2025), Guantánamo is still open and 15 detainees remain.
Arrangement
The archived websites are arranged alphabetically by creator.
Scope and Contents
The Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Web Collection on Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes (2007-ongoing) contains archived websites of organizations critical of American policy relating to Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and United States government treatment and torture of the detainees. In addition to grassroots organizations' protest work, legal organizations and non-profits' casework and activism on closing Guantánamo Bay and to secure civil and human rights for detainees are also documented in the collection.
The collection also includes many documents released using the Freedom of Information Act, relating to detainee operations, abuses, and interrogations at Guantánamo Bay, Afghanistan, and Iraq. These documents were published on government websites, the American Civil Liberties Union's websites, and the National Security Archive's websites.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Web Collection on Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes; TAM 845; Wayback URL; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.
Custodial History
Tamiment Library, New York University began web archiving in 2007 as part of a grant given by the National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (NDIIPP) of the Library of Congress. Websites were initially selected by Tamiment Library curators and captured through the use of the California Digital Library's Web Archiving Service in 2007 as part of the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp & War Crimes (U.S.) Web Archive. In November 2015, these websites were migrated to Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website. The accession number associated with the initial set of archived websites is 2009.050. For archived websites captured after 2018, the accession numbers associated with these websites are 2019.090, 2019.129, 2022.038, 2024.001, and 2025.014.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
Take Down Policy
Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
If you hold the rights to materials in our archived websites that are unattributed, please let us know so that we may maintain accurate information about these materials.
If you are a rights holder and are concerned that you have found material on this website for which you have not granted permission (or is not covered by a copyright exception under US copyright laws), you may request the removal of the material from our site by submitting a notice, with the elements described below, to the special.collections@nyu.edu.
Please include the following in your notice: Identification of the material that you believe to be infringing and information sufficient to permit us to locate the material; your contact information, such as an address, telephone number, and email address; a statement that you are the owner, or authorized to act on behalf of the owner, of an exclusive right that is allegedly infringed and that you have a good-faith belief that use of the material in the manner complained of is not authorized by the copyright owner, its agent, or the law; a statement that the information in the notification is accurate and made under penalty of perjury; and your physical or electronic signature. Upon receiving a notice that includes the details listed above, we will remove the allegedly infringing material from public view while we assess the issues identified in your notice.
Accruals
https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/detention/guantanamo-bay-detention-camp/, https://www.aclu.org/news/national-security/close-guantanamo/, https://reprieve.org/uk/, https://reprieve.org/us/, https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/project/torture-archive/, and https://www.aclu.org/issues/national-security/ are accrued semiannually.
https://ccrjustice.org/home/what-we-do/active-cases is accrued monthly.
About this Guide
Processing Information
In 2010, a finding aid was created for the Web Archiving Service (WAS) Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp Web Archive in Archivists' Toolkit as TAM 506. In 2014, the archived websites in the Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes collection in WAS/Archive-It were added as part the Tamiment Library Web Collection on Organizations (WEB ARC 003). In 2025, the websites associated with this Archive-It collection were intellectually transferred into its own collection, Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives Web Collection on Guantánamo Bay Detention Camp and War Crimes (TAM 845).
