Posted on 12/22/2010 1:13:43 PM PST by Innovative
President Obama's advisers have been drafting an executive order that would set up a system for periodically reviewing the cases of Guantanamo prisoners whom courts have approved for detention without trial, officials said.
The proposal would replace the "annual review boards" that the Bush administration had used to revisit its decision to hold each prisoner. Under that system, which the Obama administration shut down, a panel of military officers periodically reviewed the accusations against and talked to each prisoner who wanted to participate. The prisoners were not represented by lawyers. Officers then decided whether a prisoner was still a threat or should be released.
The Obama proposal, by contrast, would establish a "periodic review board" drawn from many agencies, not just the military, and modeled on a parole board, one official said. Detainees would be represented by lawyers and would have greater access to some of the evidence against them.
Currently 174 prisoners remain at the base, 48 of whom the administration has decided to keep holding indefinitely without trial.
(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...
Note that out of the 174, Obama only wants to keep 48 -- at least until the new parole board will release them too...
Obama should be added to the detainee population at Gitmo for crimes against America.
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Gitmo?
He said he’d close it the first week of his administration.
All he has done is stop their due process.
Take the whole bunch out and shoot them.
he is attacking on every front at all levels , the destruction of the USA is emminent
My skin has been crawling for 2 years. This country survives because of its citizenry and spirit. Obama can’t kill that but he’ll try.
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