Comments on: David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure”

By: Guantánamo: Las comisiones militares y la ilusión de justicia | Amauta

Guantánamo: Las comisiones militares y la ilusión de justicia | Amauta — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 03:32:24 +0000

[...] cuando asumió el poder, pronto las descongeló de nuevo, aunque sus asesores más prudentes le recomendaron que no lo hiciera, ya que las primeras acusaciones abordadas por las comisiones –conspiración y [...]

By: Congress And The Dangerous Drive Towards Creating A Military State

Congress And The Dangerous Drive Towards Creating A Military State — Thu, 21 Jul 2011 04:22:53 +0000

[...] himself responsible for having revived the military trials at Guantánamo in the first place, when he should have left them alone. This latest development — the letter from the 23 Senators — certainly doesn’t show lawmakers [...]

By: Hiding Horrific Tales of Torture: Why The US Government Reached A Plea Deal with Guantánamo Prisoner Noor Uthman Muhammed « Eurasia Review

Wed, 16 Feb 2011 18:59:50 +0000

[...] providing material support to terrorism), which, very probably, would not stand up on appeal, as senior Obama administration officials conceded when reviving the Commissions in 2009. Military Commissions Building – [...]

By: Militarization and the Authoritarian Right « Later On

Militarization and the Authoritarian Right « Later On — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 19:46:22 +0000

[...] of the creeping militarization of American society. You can see it, too, in rightist support for military tribunals to replace civilian courts in trying terror suspects; in the increasing militarization of our border with Mexico; in the [...]

By: Fahad Hashmi And Terrorist Hysteria In US Courts | FlipTrends-Following the Hottest Google Trends

Wed, 19 May 2010 16:02:25 +0000

[...] With the exception of Guantánamo, none of the prisoners held in the facilities mentioned above had, or have had access to lawyers, or to the full protections of the Geneva Conventions, but even in dealing with the cases of the men in Guantánamo, who have secured three Supreme Court victories in their favor, judges are not empowered to order the release of prisoners who win their habeas corpus petitions, and justice for some will only be delivered, if at all, in a trial by Military Commission — a second-tier judicial system, exclusively for foreign terror suspects, that was recently revived by the Obama administration and by Congress, even though its earlier incarnations were an almost unmitigated failure. [...]

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

Thu, 06 May 2010 01:59:09 +0000

[...] about the laws of war than Congress or officials in either the Bush or Obama administrations, has long pointed out that the military commissions are fundamentally flawed because they contain “law of war [...]

By: Guantánamo: Exposing Torture, Misconceptions and Government Incompetence | The Ruthless Truth blog

Tue, 20 Apr 2010 14:34:12 +0000

[...] trials (Eric Holder’s preference) or trials by Military Commission (following one of Obama’s weakest concessions to Congressional cooperation), and 47 others, judged by the Task Force as prisoners who should [...]

By: Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship : STATESMAN SENTINEL

Republican Witch-hunters Embrace Dictatorship : STATESMAN SENTINEL — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 23:59:26 +0000

[...] self-image by insisting that terrorists are warriors, ignoring the military commissions’ lamentable history of dealing with terrorist suspects, ignoring the federal courts’ successful history of [...]

By: Neocon Witchhunters and Dictatorship – Dark Politricks

Neocon Witchhunters and Dictatorship – Dark Politricks — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 12:41:51 +0000

By: Binyam Mohamed on Omar Khadr: A Scapegoat for a Failed “War on Terror” « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:05:21 +0000

[...] 2002, and who now faces a trial in the much-criticized Military Commission trial system that was ill-advisedly resuscitated and revived by the Obama administration and Congress last summer. I have written extensively about [...]