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Obama Planning US Trials for Guantanamo Detainees
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... AP: "Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison." ...
Obama Planning U.S. Trials for Guantanamo Detainees
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... AP: "Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison." ...
Obama Planning US Trials for Guantanamo Detainees
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts. A third group of detainees the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases, according to advisers and Democrats involved in the talks. Advisers participating directly in the planning spoke on condition of anonymity because the plans aren't final. Read more: http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,185786...
Closing Gitmo
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
The most important story of the day: President-elect Obama's advisers are quietly crafting a proposal to ship dozens, if not hundreds, of imprisoned terrorism suspects to the United States to face criminal trials, a plan that would make good on his promise to close the Guantanamo Bay prison but could require creation of a controversial new system of justice. ...
It’s Gonna Be A Borstal Breakout
Firedoglake —
... pay for the provision of witnesses in their (quasi)defense. And I did this all beside a group of right-wing radio hosts who brayed about orange chicken and weren't we a great nation for treating these terrorists so well.
Less than a week after his election, and more than two months before he takes office, Barack Obama is signaling that this monstrosity is coming to an end. This, I submit -- to my uncle and anyone else -- is change you can believe in. The AP, via Time: ...
Moments In GOP Hypocrisy: On Yer Marks, Git Set…Snow!
Firedoglake —
... These are all issues we've opposed or critiqued constitutionally due to their balance of powers impact -- many of which need reforms quickly. (And it looks like Obama's already taking a running start at reforming Gitmo.) Given that an imperial executive was the very thing the Founders feared at our nation's start, you'd think everyone would have been aware of it's importance.
However, the sum total of most Republican responses during Bush/Cheney can be summed up thusly: ...
The Lazy No Change Stories
democracyarsenal.org —
... how there won't actually be any real change. It's much easier to imagine the status quo world than it is to think about the dramatic changes a President might make, and thus pretty easy for reporters to write stories about how nothing is going to change. The other option is to speculate about how everything will be turned topsy turvy on day one, which is equally unrealistic. Thus, we end up with two articles declaring simultaneously that Obama will instantaneously close Guantanamo and ...
Don’t Bring Guantanamo to the US
Congress Blog —
We have officially entered the post-campaign season of tea leaf reading, conjecture and speculation about what the country can expect from the new Administration come January. Yesterday, the AP reported that an Obama Administration would move quickly to close Guantanamo but would be open to setting up an alternative court in the United States to try suspected terrorists. A senior adviser to the President –elect subsequently ...
Friday Bush Retrospective
Comments from Left Field —
... and that Laura “reminded” him that “as president of the United States, you better be careful what you say.”
On the other hand, quite a few things that should have been said much more often than they were — and acted upon — in Congress and by newspaper editorial boards and media pundits and Supreme Court justices, very much still bear repeating.
Suffice it to say, President-elect Obama has a lot of mess to clean up.
