Comments on: Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right To Halt The Guantánamo Trials

By: Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantanamo Legacy | STATESMAN SENTINEL

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 21:44:02 +0000

[...] coming to power 15 months ago, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, and suspending the much-criticized military commission trial system for terror suspects, President Obama’s [...]

By: Defiance in Isolation: The Last Stand Of Omar Khadr « Eurasia Review

Defiance in Isolation: The Last Stand Of Omar Khadr « Eurasia Review — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:43:04 +0000

[...] around, proceedings limped on until January 2009, when, on his first day in office, President Obama suspended the Commissions, but by May he had concluded that they ought to be revived with the aid of Congress, and in [...]

By: Countering Pentagon Propaganda About Prisoners Released from Guantánamo « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 19 Jan 2011 01:37:01 +0000

[...] at the National Archives, reviving the much-criticized Military Commissions at Guantánamo (which he had suspended on his first day in office), and also alerting the world to his depressing plans to hold some [...]

By: Andy Worthington – On Guantanamo, Obama Hits Rock Bottom « Kickingcrow's Weblog

Fri, 19 Nov 2010 00:13:54 +0000

[...] executive orders promising to close Guantánamo and to uphold the absolute ban on torture, and also suspended the much-criticized system of trials by Military Commission used by the Bush administration to [...]

By: Arbitrary Government Kidnapping Under the Cloak of ‘Objectivity’ « Little Alex in Wonderland

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:26:00 +0000

[...] U.S. last spring, his decision to revive the reviled military commissions trial system (which he suspended on his first day in office), and his support of indefinite detention without charge or trial, which [...]

By: The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo « roger hollander

Thu, 13 May 2010 20:18:10 +0000

[...] which were first ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in 2006, were then revived by Congress but abandoned by President Obama on his first day in office (after they had succeeded in delivering just three dubious results), and [...]

By: The Progressive Mind » The Torture of Omar Khadr, a Child in Bagram and Guantánamo | Andy Worthington

Thu, 13 May 2010 19:22:22 +0000

[...] — which were first ruled illegal by the Supreme Court in 2006, were then revived by Congress but abandoned by President Obama on his first day in office (after they had succeeded in delivering just three dubious results), and [...]

By: Prosecuting a Tortured Child: Obama’s Guantánamo Legacy. By Andy Worthington « Kanan48

Sun, 09 May 2010 06:59:30 +0000

[...] coming to power 15 months ago, promising to close Guantánamo within a year, and suspending the much-criticized Military Commission trial system for terror suspects, President Obama’s zeal [...]

By: Obama’s Failure on Guantanamo « Dark Politricks Retweeted

Obama’s Failure on Guantanamo « Dark Politricks Retweeted — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 19:33:00 +0000

[...] president began well, freezing the much-criticized military commissions trial system on his first day in office, and, on his [...]

By: Obama’s Failure on Guantanamo

Obama’s Failure on Guantanamo — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 15:09:28 +0000

[...] president began well, freezing the much-criticized military commissions trial system on his first day in office, and, on his [...]