Posted on 12/30/2021 8:51:39 PM PST by bitt
The Department of Defense is constructing a new courtroom for war crimes trials at Guantánamo Bay which will not allow the public inside the chamber, The New York Times reports.
The courtroom, the second at the military base, will also allow two military judges to preside over separate proceedings simultaneously. In larger cases, such as the trials of five men accused of planning the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, the hearings would take place in the currently existing chamber that is accessible by the public via a gallery.
The new chamber, which costs about $4 million, would be used for smaller cases. A gallery was not included in the new chamber, which the Pentagon said was due to the additional cost involved, meaning that people need a secret clearance in order to enter.
Ron Flesvig, a spokesman for the Office of Military Commissions, told the Times that because of the lack of physical gallery, the court staff are working on a "virtual gallery with multiple camera angles simultaneously displayed."
The new courtroom will also broadcast a delayed video of the proceedings to a separate building where members of the public can watch. This delay allows the judge or a security official to mute anything classified that might be revealed during the proceedings and is also used in broadcasts of proceedings in the currently existing courtroom.
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I look forward to the Hillary and Obama trials.
I wonder if they will use this, for the Jan 6 political prisoners?
You know as well as I do, the first people to be tried down
there will be Trump supporters.
They are simply upping the anti yet again against anyone
they can claim was in Washington, D. C. on January 6th, 2021.
+1
This is for patriots, not for the dem coupsters.
“They are simply upping the anti”
But they’re the ones who want to close Gitmo.
And are supposedly in control of the military, yet somehow are unable to close Gitmo. (Or to shut down John Durham’s investigation of Hillary.)
See post #7.
“I wonder if they will use this, for the Jan 6 political prisoners”?
I was thinking exactly the same thing.
And then the rest of us who resist.
Note that there are 39 prisoners now at Gitmo:
https://www.heritage.org/homeland-security/commentary/no-time-close-gitmo
Maybe Jim Biden got the no-bid construction contract.
I have hope that this will be used to try the domestic enemies that are running wild through our government institutions, but sadly you are likely correct that it will be turned against patriots. And we can all thank GW Bush for getting the surveillence deep state entrenched in America. Obama and his deep state puppeteers took the ball and ran with it.
The new Courtroom & Massage Parlor!
Or to shut down John Durham’s investigation of Hillary.
Just a thought...
There will be no gallery, why: possibly these trials
will actually be televised (the entire country will be
the gallery) Extraordinary times, extraordinary measures.
Yes, those of us, who resist. See you at Gitmo bro. 😊 On second thought, perhaps we should all remember, what Solzhenitsyn said. 👍😀
“On second thought, perhaps we should all remember, what Solzhenitsyn said”. 👍😀
Yer damned right!!!! 👍😀
You can probably tell, I got no time for communists. 👎
Seems completely unnecessary for the current handful of gitmo prisoners. It’s things like this that make me have a slight fleeting thought that maybe there is something to the Q stuff after all. Most likely not, but still, lots of oddities occuring in government right now... and I work for the government.
Me, either.
“lots of oddities occuring in government right now...”
Oddities that are helping us?
Well, not directly. Just that the level of incompetence is to point that people would actively have to try to be so incompetent. A chicken with its head cut off would be more effective.
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