Lt Col Darrel Vandeveld

As Judge Orders Release of Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

I still have no firm idea why Obama and Holder have allowed the Justice Department to pursue unjustifiable and unwinnable habeas cases, resulting in humiliation after humiliation.

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

With no visible progress this was another dismal outing for the Commissions, and another warning for the Obama administration that any kind of revival of the wretched trial system will remain fraught with insoluble problems.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

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Andy Worthington

Lt. Col. Vandeveld said, "I simply could not in good conscience continue to work for an ad-hoc, hastily created apparatus whose evident resort to expediency and ethical compromise were so contrary to my own."

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The Dying Days of the Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Al-Qaeda, Col. Stephen Henley, David Hicks, Guantanamo, Taliban, Omar Khadr, Dick Cheney, Lt. Cmdr. William Kuebler, Tarek El-Sawah, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Col. James Pohl, The Guantanamo Files, Closing Guantanamo, Abdul Ghani, Ahmed Al-Darbi, Afghanistan, Abdul Rahim Al-Nashiri, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Noor Uthman Muhammed, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics, World News
Andy Worthington

The Military Commissions to try Guantanamo detainees have rarely grabbed the media attention that a novel, flagship program to try "terror suspects" should have attracted.

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The Ten Lies of Dick Cheney (Part Two)

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Supreme Court, Terrorism, Vanity Fair, Abu Zubaydah, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Ibn Al-Shaykh Al-Libi, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Iraq War, Guantanamo Tribunals, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, David Rose, Rasul v. Bush, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Dick Cheney Iraq War, Closing Guantanamo, Iraq, Politics News
Andy Worthington

I have covered the Military Commissions in depth and at no point has it ever been demonstrated that the system dreamt up by Cheney and Addington in November 2001 is "fair and honest."

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The Collapse of Omar Khadr's Guantanamo Trial

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: John McCain, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Patrick Parrish, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Salim Hamdan, Omar Khadr, Canada, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Politics News
Andy Worthington

The latest news to rock the Commissions is that the trial of Omar Khadr... has been delayed until after the administration leaves office.

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U.S. Justice Department drops "dirty bomb plot" allegation against Binyam Mohamed

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Paul Wolfowitz, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, UK High Court, Morocco, Terrorism, Jose Padilla, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan, CIA Torture, Clive Stafford Smith, Washington Post, Dark Prison, Binyam Mohamed, Justice Department, Defense Department, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Habeas Corpus, Politics News
Andy Worthington

As the Washington Post reported yesterday, the U.S. Justice Department has dropped the key allegation against British resident and Guantánamo prisone...

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New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Col. Stephen Henley, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Maj. David Frakt, Convening Authority, Col. Mike Chapman, Capt. Patrick McCarthy, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Terrorism, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo,...

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The Dark Heart of Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mohamed Jawad, Terrorism, David Hicks, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Salim Hamdan, Military Commissions Act, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Daniel Dell'Orto, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Col. Morris Davis, Scott Horton, William J. Haynes II, Maj. David Frakt, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Politics News
Andy Worthington

Vandevelt's profound criticisms of a system that imprisons juveniles and suppresses evidence relevant to the defense, is just part of a much darker narrative that has been unfolding for the last 18 months.

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