As the nation continues to focus on our economic woes, major legal and political decisions have been made regarding the U.S. detention camp at Guantanamo Bay with little or no attention. Within days of taking office, President Obama signed an executive order calling for the closure of Guantanamo by January 2010. That decision -- an Obama campaign promise -- creates numerous legal and security issues; specifically, how to close the facility and what to do with the approximate 250 remaining inmates.
The United States should "cease the rendition of suspects, in particular by its intelligence agencies, to states where they face a real risk of torture," the report said. "The state party should always ensure that suspects have the possibility to challenge decisions. It said some techniques "have resulted in the death of some detainees during interrogation" and criticized vague U.S. guidelines that "have led to serious abuse of detainees." S. officials in Geneva declined to comment immediately Friday. But State Department legal adviser John B. Bellinger III, who led the U.S. delegation at the U.N. panel hearing earlier this month, told the experts that all American officials are "prohibited from engaging in torture at all times and in all places," also where the law of armed conflict...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 1 /U.S. Newswire/ -- The prison torture decisions "came from the top," asserts Robert Weiner, a former Clinton White House senior public affairs official. "No matter where these prisons are, so long as our policy is the same, torture will take place -- closing Guantanamo or Abu Ghraib will not stop the outbreak of abuses and torture. In an op-ed in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer, Weiner, now president of a public affairs issues strategies company, contends, "The orders to torture came from the top down. In the pyramid of power, first and foremost was President Bush's Jan. 25, 2002 executive order disavowing the Geneva Conventions for the 'new' kind of war we are fighting. Moreover, then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzalez (now Attorney General) assisted in writing the...
Closing Breakfast
ERIE, Pa. -- Former President George W. Bush said Wednesday that he hopes that his successor's plans to close the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, will not compromise domestic security. Bush, though, maintained during an appearance in northwestern Pennsylvania that he would not criticize President Barack Obama, though he did discuss his policies.
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress from both parties sought Sunday for President Obama to develop a plan for dealing with the suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay if he intends to fulfill his promise to close its prison by early 2010. The top U.S. military officer also awaited a decision from his commander in chief. We're saying, 'Mr. President, give us the plan,'" said Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif.
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