Comments on: Guantánamo Algerian Returns Home; Will Obama Suspend Further Transfers?

By: Andy Worthington

Andy Worthington — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 22:05:17 +0000

I’m very interested to know that, Jeff, and thanks for reminding me. It’s something I’ve written about twice, since Lt. Col. David Frakt first alerted me to it last year, so I had no excuse for overlooking it. So the unholy trinity becomes an unholy quartet: the Obama administration, Congress, the Supreme Court and the Circuit Court, and only Judge Gladys Kessler opposing them.
“Throughout it all, Congress has remained silent” could be an epitaph for lawmakers’ general spinelessness over the last nine years.
And those articles inspired by Lt. Col. Frakt are here:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2009/10/09/lawyer-blasts-congressional-depravity-on-guantanamo/
And here:
http://www.andyworthington.co.uk/2010/05/26/more-congressional-depravity-on-guantanamo/

By: Jeffrey Kaye

Jeffrey Kaye — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 21:30:20 +0000

You may be interested to know, Andy, that I’ve received notice from Senator Feinstein’s office that the “appropriate” parties in the U.S. Congress received 15 day notice of Naji’s transfer, as provided by laws recently passed to notify Congress of the release of any Guantanamo prisoners. Hence, some of the relevant committees and Congressional leaders certainly knew about Obama’s intent to illegally refouler Mr. Naji to Algeria. We don’t know if they protested or not, or, frankly, did anything. But to me, it amounts to complicity in the breaking of international agreements. Throughout it all, Congress has remained silent.

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