Obama administration delays Guantanamo report
CNN
07/20/09
In a move already drawing fire from liberal activists, aides to President Barack Obama acknowledged the administration will miss its own Tuesday deadline to submit a report detailing its policy on detaining terror suspects. The report is a key part of laying out the White House’s plan for shutting down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
http://tinyurl.com/lo9eun
Predictable chaos: Gitmo trials resume
CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington
07/20/09
With no visible progress — and with the little that did take place overshadowed by the dispute over the charge of material support for terrorism, which would have a knock-on effect on several other cases — this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and, surely, another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems...
http://counterpunch.org/worthington07202009.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
07/20/09
In a move already drawing fire from liberal activists, aides to President Barack Obama acknowledged the administration will miss its own Tuesday deadline to submit a report detailing its policy on detaining terror suspects. The report is a key part of laying out the White House’s plan for shutting down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay.
http://tinyurl.com/lo9eun
Predictable chaos: Gitmo trials resume
CounterPunch
by Andy Worthington
07/20/09
With no visible progress — and with the little that did take place overshadowed by the dispute over the charge of material support for terrorism, which would have a knock-on effect on several other cases — this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and, surely, another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems...
http://counterpunch.org/worthington07202009.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Obama
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=terror+suspect
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainee
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Andy+Worthington
rudkla - 21. Jul, 08:39
