Comments on: 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials

By: Chaos and Confusion: The Return of the Military Commissions by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:58:38 +0000

[...] that time, they secured only three contentious results, and were publicly undermined by their own military defense attorneys. On two other occasions, they were rocked even more [...]

By: Military Commissions Revived: Don’t Do It, Mr. President! « freedetainees.org

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:40:30 +0000

[...] sentence for al-Qaeda propagandist fails to justify Guantánamo trials (al-Bahlul, November 2008), 20 Reasons To Shut Down The Guantánamo Trials (profiles of all the prisoners charged, November 2008), How Guantánamo Can Be Closed: Advice for [...]

By: Finding New Homes For 44 Cleared Guantánamo Prisoners by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 01:46:56 +0000

[...] in Guantánamo deserves better than this: both the few dozen men who are genuinely accused of involvement with al-Qaeda, the 9/11 attacks and other acts of [...]

By: Reflections On Mohamed Jawad’s Release From Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:47:29 +0000

[...] he had gone from being a “true believer to someone who felt truly deceived,” the incidents in October and November 2008, when his military judge, Army Col. Stephen Henley, refused to accept the [...]

By: Guantánamo And The Courts (Part Three): Obama’s Continuing Shame by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:26:43 +0000

[...] Court ruled them illegal), and a military judge had determined on two separate occasions, last October and November, that the basis of the government’s case — a confession made in Afghan custody, [...]

By: As Judge Orders Release Of Tortured Guantánamo Prisoner, Government Refuses To Concede Defeat by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:17:58 +0000

[...] I explained in my article two months ago, On October 28 … [Col.] Henley found that there was “reason to believe Jawad was under the influence of drugs at the time of his [...]

By: Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:16:33 +0000

[...] firstly, because, although a military judge threw out the only supposed evidence against him in October and November last year, ruling that two confessions obtained on the day of his arrest in Afghan and [...]

By: Tortured Guantanamo Prisoner, Government Refuses to Concede Defeat « freedetainees.org

Fri, 31 Jul 2009 21:12:35 +0000

[...] I explained in my article two months ago, On October 28 … [Col.] Henley found that there was “reason to believe Jawad was under the influence of drugs at the time of his [...]

By: Get your News » Andy Worthington: Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 14:08:48 +0000

By: Guantánamo: Charge Or Release Prisoners, Say No To Indefinite Detention by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 01 Jul 2009 12:22:29 +0000

[...] by Obama — would lack legitimacy in the eyes of many at home and abroad, after the Commissions’ manifest failures throughout the Bush years; and secondly, because, if any genuine evidence exists whatsoever to [...]