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

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 [...]

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

Obama’s Countdown to Failure on Guantanamo « freedetainees.org — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:39:28 +0000

[...] which he had come into office, President Obama followed up by reinstating the Military Commissions (slightly rejigged by Congress), as a second tier of justice to accompany federal court trials for some of the men [...]

By: Afghan Nobody Faces Trial by Military Commission by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:49:29 +0000

[...] administration’s Military Commissions, would be tried in revamped version of the Commissions that the administration and Congress concocted over the [...]

By: Attorney for 9/11 terrorists says trial will highlight US propaganda - Politics and Other Controversies - Democrats, Republicans, Libertarians, Conservatives, Liberals, Third Parties, Left-Wing, Right-Wing, Congress, President - Page 4 - City-Data Forum

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:12:03 +0000

[...] disagreed, even the chief prosecutor found the military tribunal system to be irreparably flawed. David Frakt: Military Commissions “A Catastrophic Failure” | Andy Worthington [...]

By: Rep. Jerrold Nadler and David Frakt on Obama’s Three-Tier Justice System For Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Sat, 21 Nov 2009 07:13:24 +0000

[...] to revive the Commissions. I reported on his testimony in detail in an article entitled, “David Frakt: Military Commissions ‘A Catastrophic Failure,’” which followed articles dealing with similar testimony by retired Adm. John Hutson and by [...]

By: Lawyer Blasts “Congressional Depravity” On Guantánamo by Andy Worthington « Dandelion Salad

Fri, 09 Oct 2009 11:27:57 +0000

[...] the United States “for whatever reason”; in other words, even for federal court trials, or some revision of the horribly flawed Military Commission trial system favored by the Bush [...]

By: Andy Worthington Discusses Guantánamo And Bagram On Antiwar Radio « Dandelion Salad

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:03:45 +0000

[...] been the final word on the unsuitably of the Commissions and the viability of federal court trials: electrifying testimony delivered to a House Committee in July by Maj. David Frakt, the former military defense attorney [...]

By: Andy Worthington: 9/11 Trial At Guantanamo Delayed Again: Can We Have Federal Court Trials Now, Please? | TipTe.com

Tue, 22 Sep 2009 21:05:37 +0000

[...] first-hand how the Commissions were incapable of delivering justice), and about the testimony of Maj. David Frakt, a military defense attorney in the Commissions, who reminded a House Committee of the trial [...]

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

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

[...] Since then, I have assiduously covered the various twists and turns in his story, including, in particular, the crisis in the Commission system that was precipitated in September 2008, when his military prosecutor, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, resigned, declaring that the Commission system was unable to deliver justice, and explaining how 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 confessions made by Jawad shortly after his capture (both in Afghan and US custody), because they had been extracted through threats of torture, an explosive statement by Lt. Col. Vandeveld in January this year, to accompany Jawad’s habeas claim, in which the former prosecutor delivered an even more comprehensive denunciation of the Commissions’ systemic failures, his lawyers’ discovery in May that Jawad may have been as young as 12 when he was first seized, the savage denunciation of the government’s case that was delivered by Judge Ellen Segan Huvelle during his habeas corpus hearing in July, when she condemned the Justice Department for its persistent obstruction, and repeatedly stressed that the government did not have a single reliable witness, and that the case was “lousy,” “in trouble,” “unbelievable,” 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 Frakt. [...]