Comments on: Defending Detainees at Guantanamo (Part 1)

By: John

John — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 02:45:33 +0000

I just heard her on Worldview on NPR! Way to get the jump on Chicago Pub Radio!

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My first interview! Check out it out! « The World Cup and CSR — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:53:41 +0000

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By: CharlesHo

CharlesHo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:14:12 +0000

See, the information I read from a military lawyer, mind you, was that upper members of the military involved in the early points of processing were among those against and fighting the Bush administration turning the courts into kangaroo courts. The military doesn’t run like our civil society where everyone runs around loose-cannon style spouting off. They run by process, training, and procedure. Running sham-courts out to railroad innocent people is the kind of thing politicians do, not military men and women.

By: Casey Brazeal

Casey Brazeal — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:46:33 +0000

Certainly there were people in the military that defended these men at tribunals, or judged them not to be enemy combatants. But, while those are the actions of individual people, I think what she is referring to is not all the individuals of the armed forces but rather the command structure that brought Candace Gorman’s clients to Gitmo 8 years ago, never prosecuted them, and stood in the way of any kind of trial that would have prosecuted them in a military, civilian, or international court.

By: CharlesHo

CharlesHo — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 16:31:12 +0000

Going to listen to the second half of the podcast now, but a few things I’m comparing with the novel I read recently from the PoV of a Military Lawyer assigned to Guantanamo. 1. Your guest made the statement “the military wanted to find these guys guilty.” If you read Honor Bound by Sgt Rotunda you will find that the military actually did NOT try to railroad or rig these trials, though there were elements in the military fighting against Bush administration mandates that did seem to want to do this. 2. The guest also seemed to suggest there was no process in place for releasing these inmates when, in fact, the facility holds now only 1/5th of the original population. Most of the folks originally detained there were released in a sort of parolee system instituted after the first year or two and this happened BEFORE the Obama administration came into office.

By: admin

admin — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 20:03:40 +0000

For more information on the Guantanamo detainees and the work Candace Gorman is doing please check out her blog at http://gtmoblog.blogspot.com/

It’s more than worth checking out.