Wednesday, July 24, 2013

The Pentagon prepares review hearings for 71 of 166 Gitmo Captives

Seventy-one Guantánamo captives will get parole-board-style hearings at the U.S. Navy base in Cuba, the Pentagon said Sunday, refusing to say when the panels will meet, whether the media can watch and which of the long-held captives will go first. 
The disclosure followed a flurry of emails sent after 10 p.m. Friday by Pentagon bureaucrats notifying attorneys for some of the 71 captives that preparations were underway to hold the so-called Periodic Review Boards ordered by President Barack Obama years ago.
Retired Rear Adm. Norton C. Joerg, a former senior Navy lawyer during the Bush administration, advised the lawyers that the new six-member panels do not decide whether the Pentagon is lawfully imprisoning their captive client. 
Rather, the panel members “assess whether continued law of war detention is necessary to protect against a continuing significant threat to the security of the United States,” Joerg said.
The reviews include:
  • 46 captives currently held as “indefinite detainees,” a category created by an Obama Task force in 2010 of captives considered too dangerous to release but for whom there was no evidence that could justify a criminal trial; 
  • 25 other captives who in 2010 were listed as candidates for trials by military commissions or civilian courts.
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2 comments:

BOSMAN said...

NEW Sports field, NEW Gym equipment, NEW Large screen TVs, Special menus. Most of these slimeballs never had it so good...You have to feel their pain.

Anonymous said...

Poor little terrorist resort.