Comments on: Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions

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

Sat, 05 Sep 2009 00:12:21 +0000

[...] and “riddled with holes,” and statements to a Senate and House Committee in July by Lt. Col. Vandeveld and by Jawad’s military defense attorney, Lt. Col. David [...]

By: How Judge Huvelle Humiliated The Government In Guantánamo Case by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:34:01 +0000

[...] are no surprises to some people, including — there is a prosecutor from the military commission [Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld] who quit and wrote a 20-page affidavit. He investigated. They had defense counsel for the military [...]

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

Sat, 01 Aug 2009 04:14:12 +0000

[...] and that it unraveled spectacularly last September, when the prosecutor in his proposed trial, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, [...]

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

Sun, 19 Jul 2009 00:31:02 +0000

[...] after the Supreme Court ruled that their first incarnation was illegal), even though, as I reported last week when Lt. Col. Vandeveld delivered testimony to the Committee which should have halted the [...]

By: Guantánamo And The Courts Part One: Exposing The Bush Administration’s Lies by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 15 Jul 2009 10:18:54 +0000

[...] Jawad, an Afghan whose story I have been reporting since October 2007 (see here, here, here and here), I have decided to take this opportunity to present a two-part overview of the habeas cases over [...]

By: Will Eric Holder Be The Anti-Torture Hero? by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 14:34:06 +0000

[...] unable to effectively turn its back on the policies of its predecessors. The DoJ’s involvement in reviving the Military Commissions at Guantánamo (the “terror trials” introduced by former Vice President Dick Cheney in November [...]

By: Military Commissions — "Broken Beyond Repair" (and other related stories) | nFiniteEcho.com

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 12:08:19 +0000

[...] quote is from Andy Worthington’s excellent recent posting, “Former Insider Shatters Credibility of Military Commissions”. Worthington covered earlier testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee here. [...]

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:42:23 +0000

After this article was published on CounterPunch, Wat Stearns wrote:

Very valuable, I’ll put out on Facebook (to my faceposse?), and will you join me in kicking CounterPunch’s butt to get a genuine print tool on there? Printing as is creates 20 page monstrosities of mainly their book ads.

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:06:10 +0000

And finally, for now, Richard Heithold sent me the following powerful response:

You have an extraordinary, overpowering story on what has happened to the United States since 9/11. It sickens me to read and hear about our collective loss of individual judicial rights. What is not understood, is that once we give up or take away those rights they are lost. Thank you for educating me and telling the stories of those on the front lines of this horrific injustice. I am one ordinary citizen that will write a few letters and call a few offices to let them know my disgust.
Again, thank you.

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 10:00:51 +0000

And Salpha wrote:

Impressive article Mr. Worthington and written with an uncompromising rigour to look for the truth.
To my knowledge Mr. Worthington is the best expert in the world right now on this subject. I just wish he had a bigger platform on US television. What he has done is historical, but the lessons from Guantanamo should be learned now so history does not repeat itself.