Bush Keeps Gitmo Open While Detainees Can Still Be Imprisoned Indefinitely
"The men were named as Noor Uthman Muhammed, Binyam Mohamed, Sufyiam Barhoumi, Ghassan Abdullah al-Sharbi and Jabran Said Bin al-Qahtani.
"No reason has been given but a military spokesman said new charges could be filed against the suspects.
"On Tuesday, the lawyer of Binyam Mohamed criticised the US government after all terror charges were dropped against his client.
" 'Far from being a victory for Mr Mohamed in his long-running struggle for justice, this is more of the same farce that is Guantanamo,' Stafford Smith said.
" 'The military has informed us that they plan to charge him again within a month' after the US presidential election, Mr Smith said.
"Last month, Army Lt Col Darrel Vandeveld - who had been appointed prosecutor for all five cases - resigned after accusing his own office of withholding information.
"The Guantanamo Bay chief prosecutor has appointed new trial teams - to review evidence, co-ordinate with intelligence agencies and recommend what to do next, military spokesman Joseph DellaVedova said."
Also, according to a BBC report, detainees found not guilty can still be held at Guantanamo: "Pentagon officials have confirmed that Guantanamo detainees may still be kept in detention, even if they are found not guilty by a military tribunal.
"They say detainees could be kept prisoner if they are considered a security risk."
What kind of justice is that? Former USSR justice.
Bush also reneges on closing Guantanamo at the NYTimes reports: "Despite his stated desire to close the American prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, President Bush has decided not to do so, and never considered proposals drafted in the State Department and the Pentagon that outlined options for transferring the detainees elsewhere, according to senior administration officials.
"Mr. Bush's decision followed a review of the implications of the Supreme Court's ruling in June that the 250 detainees at Guantanamo have the right to makehabeas corpus appeals.
"The ruling, Boumediene v. Bush, undercut a core rationale for keeping the prison off American soil, raising expectations that Mr. Bush might at last move to close it, a prospect he first raised in June 2006, when he said, "I'd like to close Guantanamo, but I also recognize that we're holding some people that are darn dangerous, and that we better have a plan to deal with them in our courts."
"Mr. McCain's campaign did not respond to requests for comments about Guantanamo. The Obama campaign declined to comment specifically, but in his platform, Mr. Obama promises to abolish military tribunals and conduct a review to determine which prisoners to prosecute, which to hold under the laws of war and which to release. His proposal does not specify where detainees would be held."
Policies of the criminal Bush regime: torture, indefinite detention, no client-attorney privilege, no habeas corpus....how is this different from the Third Reich or the former Soviet Union or other criminal regimes?
And impeachment was taken off the table.




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