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

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 [...]

By: Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantanamo « freedetainees.org

Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantanamo « freedetainees.org — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:37:29 +0000

[...] President began well, freezing the much-criticized Military Commissions trial system on his first day in office, and, on his [...]

By: Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:45:49 +0000

[...] Guantánamo and called time on the CIA’s use of torture and secret prisons, and President Obama also announced that he was suspending the Military Commissions. Human rights activists were overjoyed, and, as [...]

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

Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:41:59 +0000

[...] Trial Chief’s Torture Confession (Susan Crawford on Mohammed al-Qahtani, January 2009), Chaos and Lies: Why Obama Was Right to Halt The Guantánamo Trials (January 2009), Binyam Mohamed’s Plea Bargain: Trading Torture For Freedom (March [...]

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

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:08:04 +0000

[...] put on a plane and sent back to Afghanistan, but this didn’t happen, and, although Barack Obama suspended the Military Commissions for four months on his arrival in the White House on January 20, 2009, Jawad’s habeas corpus [...]

By: Predictable Chaos As Guantánamo Trials Resume by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 02:04:08 +0000

[...] Military Commission trial system convened for only the second time since President Obama announced a four-month freeze on all proceedings on his first day in office to give the new administration’s inter-departmental [...]

By: A Broken Circus: Guantánamo Trials Convene For One Day Of Chaos by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 06 Jun 2009 07:57:10 +0000

[...] on Monday, in the first hearing of the Military Commission trial system since the President’s four-month freeze on proceedings expired, should persuade him that all that awaits him, if he proceeds with his plan [...]

By: A Child At Guantánamo: The Unending Torment of Mohamed Jawad by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 00:19:00 +0000

[...] in December 2002, whose long road to justice stalled in January, when the Obama administration froze all proceedings in the tribunals for four months (and is now seeking another four-month [...]

By: Guantánamo And The Many Failures Of US Politicians by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 28 May 2009 03:46:26 +0000

[...] not be freed will either be tried in federal courts, put forward for trial in an amended version of the failed Military Commissions introduced by Dick Cheney and David Addington, or subjected to “preventive [...]

By: Out Of Guantánamo: African Embassy Bombing Suspect To Be Tried In US Court by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 21 May 2009 22:39:13 +0000

[...] put forward for trial by Military Commission at Guantánamo in March 2008 (before the trials were suspended by Barack Obama, on his first day in office), Ghailani did not allege, during his military tribunal, that he was [...]