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  • Pentagon debuts new process for Bagram prisoners (get atty, protest detention, call witnesses!!)

    09/12/2009 8:54:55 PM PDT · by STARWISE · 13 replies · 735+ views
    Politico ^ | 9-12-09 | Josh Gerstein
    The Obama Administration is reportedly planning to enhance the ability of prisoners at a U.S. military base in Afghanistan to challenge their detention, assigning the detainees a U.S. military officer to argue for their release and granting prisoners the right to call witnesses on their own behalf. Administration officials passed word of the changes to the New York Times and Washington Post in advance of a court deadline the U.S. government faces Monday in an appeal of a judge’s ruling which held that some prisoners at the Bagram Air Base have the right to pursue habeas corpus cases in American...