Comments on: Guantánamo: Idealists Leave Obama’s Sinking Ship

By: Abandonment Of Guantánamo’s Uighurs - OpEd

Abandonment Of Guantánamo’s Uighurs - OpEd — Tue, 10 May 2011 08:43:37 +0000

[...] Court agreed, and the Uighurs were stranded at Guantánamo. That was in February 2009. Obama then quashed a brave and principled plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to bring some of the Uighurs to live in the US, and, as the [...]

By: Holder, Obama And Cowardly Shame Of Guantánamo And 9/11 Trial – OpEd « Eurasia Review

Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:13:59 +0000

[...] May 2009, when President Obama first bowed to Republican pressure on national security issues, and abandoned a plan by White House Counsel Greg Craig to rehouse on the US mainland a couple of cleared prisoners at [...]

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

Mon, 21 Jun 2010 19:23:48 +0000

[...] hopes held by many of us in January 2009. Other examples include Obama vetoing White House Counsel Greg Craig’s plan to bring some Uighurs to live in the U.S. last spring, his decision to revive the reviled military commissions trial system (which he [...]

By: Andy Worthington: More “Congressional Depravity” on Guantanamo « In The News « Obama America

Wed, 26 May 2010 15:15:11 +0000

[...] pledge to close Guantánamo, including opposition within his own party, reflects the President's near-total lack of leadership on this issue since his inaugural pledge to shut Guantánamo." He added: Since his first week in [...]

By: House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo « Politics or Poppycock

House Kills Plan to Close Guantanamo « Politics or Poppycock — Tue, 25 May 2010 16:26:34 +0000

[...] be repatriated because they face the risk of torture to be allowed to settle in the US, as was planned last year by White House Counsel Greg Craig, supported by Robert Gates and Hillary Clinton, until Obama got cold [...]

By: CrossTalk on Gitmo: Morphing injustice – Andy Worthington vs Cully Stimson « Dandelion Salad

Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:45:11 +0000

[...] pleasantly surprised that he agreed with me that some of the Uighur prisoners should have been brought to live in the US last year, that serious mistakes were made in rounding up prisoners in the first place, and that there are [...]

By: More Dark Truths From Guantanamo as Five Innocent Men Released « freedetainees.org

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 05:44:33 +0000

[...] have followed. However, when the president bowed to pressure from Republican critics and turned down a plan put forward by White House Counsel Greg Craig and backed by Defense Secretary Robert Gates and [...]

By: Swiss Take Two Guantánamo Uighurs, Save Obama from Having to Do the Right Thing « Dandelion Salad

Thu, 04 Feb 2010 15:30:48 +0000

[...] there is one thing we have learned from the Obama administration, since the President shelved plans made last April by his counsel, Greg Craig, to bring the Uighurs to live in the US, it is that, [...]

By: Andy Worthington: Swiss Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs, Solve Obama’s Problem

Andy Worthington: Swiss Take Two Guantanamo Uighurs, Solve Obama’s Problem — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 14:49:56 +0000

By: Rubbing Salt in Guantanamo’s Wounds: Task Force Announces Indefinite Detentions | themcglynn.com/theliberal.net

Sat, 23 Jan 2010 17:04:28 +0000

[...] any cleared prisoner to settle in the United States, if they cannot be repatriated, lies with the president, with lawmakers, with the Justice Department and judges in the Court of Appeals and numerous media [...]