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Guantanamo Bay Military Trials to Resume: What Do the Pundits Think?
By Steven Hoffer - AOL NewsIt was a top priority in his 2008 presidential campaign, but it appears that Barack Obama won't be closing Gitmo anytime soon. The White House announced on Monday that military trials will resume at the infamous Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba, where a new executive order signed by the president now creates a system in which prisoners could be subject to indefinite detention. Besides reigniting the debate surrounding the legality of military tribunals, the decision will also likely allow the prosecution of Guantanamo detainees such as alleged 9/11 organizer Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who wasn't ...
Obama Restarts Military Trials at Guantanamo
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama reversed course Monday and ordered a resumption of military trials for terror suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, making his once ironclad promise to close the isolated prison look even more distant. Guantanamo has been a major political and national security headache for the president since he took office promising to close the prison within a year, a deadline that came and went without him ever setting a new one. Obama made the change with clear reluctance, bowing to the reality that Congress' vehement opposition to trying detainees on U.S. soil leaves ...
Life Sentence for Former Guantanamo Detainee in Embassy Bombings
By Christopher Weber - Politics DailyAhmed Khalfan Ghailani, the first Guantanamo detainee to be tried in a civilian court, was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison for his role in the 1998 bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan rejected the defense's request for leniency, saying "the very purpose of the crime was to create terror by causing death and destruction," The New York Times reported. Ghailani's lawyers said their client deserved a lesser sentence because he was tortured while being held at a secret CIA-run camp. But the judge said that no matter what Ghailani endured while ...
Federal Judge Mulls Sanctions Against CIA in Tape Destruction Case
By Andrew Cohen - Politics DailyU.S. District Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein, who has never suffered fools gladly anyway, is angry -- at federal lawyers, at the Central Intelligence Agency, and at pretty much anyone else he believes has played him for a patsy in the years-long saga involving the improper destruction of CIA videotapes of post-9/11 interrogation sessions involving terror-law detainees. The judge said as much last Thursday at a federal court hearing in a civil contempt case brought against the CIA by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU is going after the agency, and is so far succeeding, because CIA ...
With Assange Arrest, Will WikiLeaks Go 'Thermonuclear'?
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
(Dec. 7) -- Days before Julian Assange's arrest, the WikiLeaks founder's lawyer warned that supporters will unleash a "thermonuclear device" of government files containing the names of spies, sources and informants if he's killed or brought to trial. Now, it remains to be seen whether his surrender in Britain today is enough for them to push the button. The 1.5-gigabyte file, which has been distributed to tens of thousands of fellow hackers and open-government campaigners around the world, is encrypted with a 256-digit key, The Sunday Times reported. Experts interviewed by the paper said ...
Massive Release of Raw WikiLeaks Files Threatened
By Theunis Bates - AOL News(Dec. 6) -- Julian Assange's lawyer has warned that supporters of the WikiLeaks founder will unleash a "thermonuclear device" of government files containing the names of spies, sources and informants if he's killed or brought to trial. Assange, the 39-year-old Australian who has most recently embarrassed the U.S. by leaking hundreds of previously secret diplomatic dispatches over the past week, has dubbed the unfiltered cache of documents his "insurance" policy. The 1.5-gigabyte file, which has been distributed to tens of thousands of fellow hackers and open-government campaigners around the ...
Opinion: Obama's Terrorism Policy Flunks Jury Test
By J.D. Gordon - AOL News(Nov. 17) -- Just two weeks after suffering a crushing setback in the midterm elections, the Obama administration suffered another blow after the acquittal on all but one charge of ex-Gitmo detainee Ahmed Ghailani in a lower Manhattan federal courthouse. A Tanzanian national, Ghailani was accused of participating in the U.S. Embassy bombings in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, on Aug. 7, 1998. Ghailani was acquitted of 224 murder charges and instead was found guilty of just one charge of conspiracy to destroy government buildings. Sentencing will take place at a later date. In ...
British Gitmo Inmates Win Huge Payouts From UK
By Theunis Bates - AOL News
LONDON (Nov. 16) -- A group of former Guantanamo Bay inmates who claim British spies helped torture them will receive millions of dollars in payouts from the U.K. government. The 10 men -- some of whom are British nationals, while others arrived in the U.K. as asylum seekers -- have filed a range of allegations against the British government, including that U.K. officials knew they were being illegally transferred to Guantanamo Bay but failed to prevent it. There are also allegations that British security and intelligence agents colluded in their torture and abuse while the men were held ...
Canadian Held at Gitmo Pleads Guilty to All Charges
By not in system - AOL NewsGUANTANAMO BAY NAVAL BASE, Cuba (Oct. 25) -- A Canadian prisoner at Guantanamo accused of killing an American soldier has pleaded guilty to all charges. Omar Khadr pleaded to five charges including murder in a plea agreement with military authorities. Khadr had been facing a possible life sentence if convicted at a trial that was scheduled to start Monday. He was 15 at the time of his capture. The terms of the plea deal have not yet been disclosed. The military will now hold a sentencing hearing before a jury of military officers. Khadr is accused of throwing a grenade that killed U.S. Army ...
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