After being imprisoned for more than four years at Guantanamo Bay and enduring what he described as "medieval" forms of torture, British detainee Binyam Mohamed was released and allowed to return to his home in the UK. But the question of what should happen to the remaining 245 prisoners still held at Guantanamo has not been resolved. And the Obama administration—currently reviewing the status of enemy combatants held at the prison--has yet to determine whether it will do away with preventive detention for terrorist suspects.
Jane Mayer writing in the New Yorker notes that, “The Obama Administration has indicated that it hopes to return the majority of the detainees to other countries, or to try them in civilian and military courts. The looming question, however, is whether there is a category of terror suspect whose status precludes such options.”
Vince Warren of the Center for Constitutional Rights, Army Lieutenant Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a former military prosecutor at Guantanamo who resigned in September of last year, and Law Professor Vijay Padmanabhan discuss how the United States should address the legal status of the remaining prisoners at Guantanamo.
Then, an interview with filmmaker Josh Fox, the founder and Artistic Director of International WOW Company. In his new film Memorial Day Fox explores the disturbing connections between American culture, in its Girls Gone Wild manifestation, and the torture and abuse revealed at Abu Ghraib.
Finally, fallout from protests against US support for Israeli policy in Palestine. Student activists at NYU were suspended after occupying the Kimmel Center and demanding that the University help rebuild the University of Gaza and increase the number of scholarships to Palestinian students. And Joel Kovel, a long-time professor at BardCollege and the author of Overcoming Zionism was recently terminated from his post, he says, for his views on Zionism. Bard has denied the accusation and says that Kovel was not fired but relieved for financial reasons. You can learn more about the case here.
While holding people responsible for torture and politicizing the Dept of Justice. Amazing how accepting the so called progressive bloggers have been accepting that the Bush administration, our congress and now the Obama administration has swept all of the false pre-war intelligence issues under the filthy rug. You know the intelligence that the invasion of Iraq was based on.
Tonight Nancy Pelosi said “no one is above the law” Now the American public and the rest of the world know that that is a flat out lie. Feith, Wolfowitz, Cheney, Bolton etc they are all running free. Tens of thousands of people have died and Obama is telling everyone we need to “move on turn the page” Tens of thousands of people are dead, injured, 5 million Iraqi refugees…and Obama tells us he does not want to look back “lay blame” since when did justice and accoutability start to be defined as “blame”
Did I miss it? Has someone been held accountable for those Niger Documents?
By Leen on February 25th, 2009 at 9:49 pm