Government Dropping Allegations Against (Guantanamo) Detainees

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Reversals Raise Questions About Future of Guantanamo Prisoners


The government has argued that the prisoners are among the world's most dangerous terrorists. But as the Guantanamo detainees' cases challenging their imprisonment move forward in federal court, prosecutors have begun dropping some of the central allegations they used to justify locking these men up as enemy combatants.

The reversals have raised questions about whether the government will have enough evidence to convince federal judges to continue to hold the couple hundred men still detained at the Guantanamo Bay prison, defense lawyers say.

"They've been holding these men for more than six years on the basis of these allegations and when a court looks at them they drop them," says Zachary Katznelson, a detainee defense attorney. "It sure looks to any rational observer that they must have something to hide."

In many instances, lawyers say, the government has. The vast majority of the newly filed factual returns explaining the government's central allegations against detainees have been changed and, say defense lawyers, have limited some of the assertions.

Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=6169699&page=1

[redqueen]

1. K&R

Off to the greatest page... :kick:

[barbtries]

2. it's going to feel so good

to have a government that does not engage in this kind of evilness. imagine being locked up for 5 and 6 years and never being told why. how unamerican is that?

[reggie the dog]

3. well no shit

[stillcool]

4. how timely..

these people's lives are forever ruined. I hope there is some court of law somewhere on this planet that can bring them a modicum of justice for the lives they have lost.

[Dogtown]

5. K&R n/t

[LiberalLovinLug]

6. They're stalling until President Obama has to deal with it

Then when they are all released, FAUX News et all can scream about all these terrorists that Obama is releasing into the world. How dangerous it is to give them a fair trial etc. The terrorists in the White House know they have no case, they are willing to incarcerate and torture innocent men (and teenagers) a while longer if it suits them politically.

[JJ]

7. If they weren't "Enemy Combatants" or terrorists before

they sure as hell will be when they get out.

on edit: Oh yeah, Thanks George

[Solly Mack]

8. I'll celebrate when justice is achieved

Which in no way means that this isn't hopeful news for those wrongfully and illegally detained and tortured by the US government. It is hopeful...

But it's still not justice...

[phusion]

9. Did anyone watch the "Tortured Democracy" show

on PBS last night? It was fucking awful...These men are still going through hell, and some of them have been there for over 7 years w/o being charged. It's infuriating! :grr:

[gratuitous]

10. So, with "charges" dropped

These folks are free to go?

Prolly not. Commander Bunnypants has decreed them to be "enemy combatants," whatever in fuck that means. So, no rights for them!

[bemildred]

11. War crimes and lawsuits out the wazoo in federal courts.

That is where this goes. Let's hope President Obama and his minions allow the law to take its course.

[Jack Rabbit]

12. You'll notice that there were no kangaroo trials to be used as the backdrop of the McCain campaign

The best laid plans of mice, men and the rats in the Bush Junta and all that.

[fascisthunter]

13. So in Other Words, They were all Bush and the GOP's Political Prisoners

just to pump up anxiety about terrorism and to look as if they were actually fighting terrorism.