Military Commissions

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Gitmo Show Trial And Tell

Danielle Celena Belton | Posted 12.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Obama Guantanamo, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Gitmo Detainees, Gitmo, Closing Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Torture, Politics News

What do you call a trial where the outcome is rigged from the inception? If you're a right-winger and obsessed with keeping Guantanamo Bay open, it's called a military commission.

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Closing Guantanamo: An Assessment

Balakrishnan Rajagopal | Posted 12.15.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Military, Guantanamo Detainees, World News

As regressive policies connected to Guantanamo have continued and as the president defends the right to wage 'just war', worries are growing that he may not be a transformational president in human rights terms after all.

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Former Guantanamo Prosecutor Loses Job for Criticizing Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 12.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Congressional Research Service, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Wall Street Journal, World News, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Washington Post, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

orris Davis, the retired Air Force Colonel who served as the Chief Prosecutor of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo until 2007, has just lost his job for writing an op-ed for the Wall Street Journal.

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The Forgotten Defendant of Guantanamo

Stephen Paul Smith | Posted 11.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed Trial, Guantanamo, Mohammad Kamin, Eric Holder, Military Commissions, Politics News

Military commissions were created under Bush to circumvent legal protections. Under Obama, the underlying purpose remains the same. The new commissions offer little hope for swift and decisive justice.

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If This Is War, What Are We Doing?

Craig Alan Silverman | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Capital Punishment, Fort Hood, Ksm, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Nidal Malik Hasan, Death Penalty, September 11th, Eric Holder, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Denver News

The government's easier path toward execution is through a tribunal, and yet Holder has chosen the risky path of seeking the death penalty in New York. This is political correctness run amok.

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No Justice Can Come From Guantánamo Military Commissions

Talat Hamdani | Posted 10.20.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, 9/11, World Trade Center, Nypd, Military Commissions, Politics News

The military commissions, which will continue to be tainted by the dark legacy of Guantánamo, will always be doubted and cannot achieve the justice that 9/11 family members and all Americans deserve.

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Lawyer Blasts "Congressional Depravity" on Guantanamo

Andy Worthington | Posted 10.09.2009 | Politics

Lt. Col. David Frakt said Congress is still behaving unconstitutionally with regard to the right of the Executive branch and the Judiciary to order the release of prisoners from Guantanamo.

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Khadr Case Goes Nowhere at Gitmo (Again)

David Danzig | Posted 10.08.2009 | World

Read More: Human Rights, Omar Khadr, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Gitmo, World News

More than seven years after U.S. forces picked up a 15-year-old boy in a remote Afghan town, the government appears to be on the verge of deciding where to give him his day in court.

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Not With a Bang, but With a Whimper: Another Day in the Life of Guantanamo Military Commissions

Human Rights First | Posted 11.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Although the judge granted the Obama Administration's request, he also did not fail to take note that the government was seeking its third delay in connection with events that occurred nine years ago.

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9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please?

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Col. Peter Masciola, House of Representatives, Congress, David Kris, Col. Stephen Henley, World, War on Terror, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, 9/11, Guantanamo, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, World News, Al Qaeda, Military Commissions, Politics News, Senate, Capt. John Murphy, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Maj. David Frakt, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

Scarcely in its history has the United States entertained such a shabby and shamelessly politicized travesty of justice as the Military Commissions.

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Judge Orders Release From Guantanamo of Kuwaiti Who Met Bin Laden

Andy Worthington | Posted 11.18.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, War on Terror, Afghanistan, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Guantanamo, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Afghanistan War, Osama Bin Laden, Al Qaeda, John Bellinger, Jane Mayer, Cia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, Fouad Al-Rabia, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Sleep Deprivation, Torture, Gitmo, World News

Following Judge Kollar-Kotelly's ruling, the DOJ did not indicate whether it will appeal the decision, but I sincerely hope that the government follows the judge's advice and repatriates al-Rabia.

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

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.31.2009 | World

Read More: Supreme Court, Mohamed Jawad, Col. Stephen Henley, Department of Defense, War on Terror, George W. Bush, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Taliban, Judge Ellen Huvelle, Eric Holder, World News, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Robert Gates, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, US Torture, Guantanamo Bay, Advocacy, World, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo Task Force, Justice Department, US District Court, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Torture, World News

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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Gitmo Trials: Being All They Can Be

David Danzig | Posted 08.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo, Obama Guantanamo, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Politics News

Could President Obama and the U.S. Congress transform a deeply flawed legal process -- struck down, at one time by the Supreme Court -- into one that acted like a real court?

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Predictable Chaos as Guantanamo Trials Resume

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: War on Terror, Cmdr. Suzanne Lachelier, Ramzi Bin Al-Shibh, David Hicks, President Obama, 9/11, Guantanamo, Omar Khadr, World News, Politics News, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, Lt. Rich Federico, Col. Morris Davis, Ali Hamza Al-Bahlul, Guantanamo Bay, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, World, Human Rights First, Walid Bin Attash, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, CIA Torture, Mohammed Kamin, Salim Hamdan, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, Osama Bin Laden, Capt. John Murphy, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Federal Court, Mustafa Al-Hawsawi, Politics News

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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The Detainee Dance at Gitmo

David Danzig | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: 9/11, Military Commissions, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Politics News

The judge and the attorneys labored as best they could under a system that is constantly evolving. But many were left wondering if such a complex case might be better off in a more mature setting.

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Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.11.2009 | Politics

Read More: Aclu, Preventive Detention, Mohamed Jawad, David Kris, Department of Defense, War on Terror, Harsh Interrogations, President Obama, Guantanamo, Obama Administration, John Hutson, World News, Dick Cheney, Habeas Corpus, Politics News, Sen. Carl Levin, Robert Gates, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, World, Terrorism, Guantanamo Detainees, Senate Armed Services Committee, Susan Crawford, David Addington, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Military Commissions, House Committee on the Judiciary, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, Capt. John Murphy, George Toscas, Federal Court, Brig. Gen. Thomas Hartmann, Torture, Politics News

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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Will US Seek Death Penalty in First Trial of Former Gitmo Detainee?

Amnesty International | Posted 08.09.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo, Trial, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, Death Penalty, War on Terror, Military Commissions, World News

Last month, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani became the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be brought to the United States for trial outside of the military commission system.

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Military Commissions: Government Flounders, As Admiral Hutson Nails Problems

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, Preventive Detention, Department of Defense, David Kris, World, War on Terror, Terrorism, Lt. Cmdr. Charles Swift, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, Senate Armed Services Committee, US District Court, Justice Department, John Hutson, Barack Obama, World News, Military Commissions, Politics News, Enemy Combatants, Jeh Johnson, National Security, Col. Morris Davis, Guantanamo Bay, Federal Court, William J. Haynes II, Politics News

A legal quagmire that lacks legitimacy and maintains key policies of the Bush administration's "War on Terror" is almost too awful to contemplate.

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Why Trial Date for African Embassy Bombing Suspect Is Good News

Andy Worthington | Posted 08.02.2009 | Politics

The government will not use any statements made by the suspect in secret prisons, nor will the evidence "be very different" from that used when his alleged co-conspirators were tried by the federal court in 2001.

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Obama's Guantánamo Appeasement Plan

Marjorie Cohn | Posted 06.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, Guantanamo, War on Terror, Military Commissions, Dick Cheney, Politics News

Obama's capitulation to the intelligence gurus and the right-wing attack dogs will not only imperil the rule of law; it will actually make us more vulnerable to future acts of terrorism.

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My Message To Obama: Great Speech, But No Military Commissions and No "Preventive Detention"

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.21.2009 | Politics

Read More: Preventive Detention, US Supreme Court, Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, War on Terror, Terrorism, President Obama, Guantanamo Detainees, Guantanamo, CIA Torture, David Addington, Barack Obama, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Military Commissions, Politics, Guantanamo Uighurs, Bush Administration, Obama Guantanamo, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Guantanamo Bay, Breaking Politics News, Waterboarding, Closing Guantanamo, Torture, Politics News

Look at the sentence, "Hold[ing] individuals to keep them from carrying out an act of war," replace "an act of war" with "any crime," and you will realize why the proposed policy is so terrifying.

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There is No Need for Wretched Un-American Military Commissions

Martin Garbus | Posted 06.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Court Systems, Military Commissions Act, Military Courts, Military Commissions, Politics News

The real reason Obama is giving in on military commissions because of resistance by local communities to house these defendants.

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Guantanamo: A Prison Built On Lies

Andy Worthington | Posted 06.19.2009 | World

Read More: Guantanamo Evidence, Foreign Affairs, Abu Zubaydah, President Obama, Administrative Review Boards, Guantanamo, Fbi, Obama Administration, Taliban, Alla Ali Bin Ali Ahmed, Habeas Corpus, Dick Cheney, Politics News, Politics, Enemy Combatants, Obama Guantanamo, Combatant Status Review Tribunals, Habeas Corpus Guantanamo, Mosaic Theory, Guantanamo Bay, Judge Gladys Kessler, Advocacy, Afghanistan, Terrorism, Pakistan, Guantanamo Detainees, David Addington, Yemeni Detainees Guantanamo, US District Court, Justice Department, Barack Obama, Osama Bin Laden, Military Commissions, Al Qaeda, Faisalabad, Guantanamo Uighurs, Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, Cuba, World News

It is difficult to see how much of the "evidence" against the Gitmo prisoners can be anything other than a tissue of lies extracted through torture, coercion, bribery and exploitation.

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Military Commissions: Obama Clarifies Position

The Huffington Post | Posted 06.15.2009 | Politics

Read More: Military Tribunals, Barack Obama, Obama Military Commissions, President Obama, Obama, Military Commissions, Politics News

The White House released a statement Friday afternoon clarifying the president's position on the use of military tribunals: Statement of President Ba...

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Obama Set To Revive Military Commissions

Washington Post | Peter Finn | Posted 06.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Guantanamo Bay, Obama Administration, Military Commissions, Guantanamo, Politics News

The Obama administration is preparing to revive the system of military commissions established at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, under new rules that would off...

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