The Rachel Maddow Show: Inside Guantanamo
From The Rachel Maddow Show:
Former Guantanamo prosecutor, Army Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, describes the sorry state of the government's case against many of the inmates at the prison on Guantanamo Bay.
Andy Worthington -- Former Guantánamo Prosecutor Condemns “Chaotic” Trials in Case of Teenage Torture Victim:
On January 13, in a declaration submitted to a Washington D.C. District Court in the case of Guantánamo prisoner Mohamed Jawad, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, a former prosecutor in the Military Commission trial system, delivered perhaps the most blistering attack on the US military’s detention program by a former member of the Pentagon’s team to date.
Speaking of the man he was once tasked to prosecute, Vandeveld said prisoner Mohamed Jawad’s continued detention is “something beyond a travesty,” and urged that Jawad be released given a “lack of any credible evidence.”
Some of this information was revealed in September 2008, after Vandeveld (who has served in Bosnia, Africa, Iraq and Afghanistan in the years since the 9/11 attacks, and has received several military awards) resigned as a prosecutor, complaining that “potentially exculpatory evidence” had “not been provided” to Jawad’s defense team, and that his accidental discovery of information relating to Jawad’s abuse helped convert him from a “true believer to someone who felt truly deceived.”
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I appreciate that.
That's how we do it.
about Gitmo is true. I know, I watched Harold and Kumar go to Gitmo.
I think once the prosecutions in a real court of law take place, the cases against many of these prisoners will collapse. The detentions were not made according to the rule of law, requiring evidence from investigators who know what they are doing, so how can some of the cases against these people be solid? I am concerned about people detained on the word of warlords, neighbors with grudges, etc. And the abuse issue is yet another concern. This travesty called Guantanamo, yet another Bush black mark against our country, needs to come to a swift and just conclusion.
Bill O'Reilly is not going to like this.
Obama lets CIA keep controversial renditions tool
This is NOT the kind of president or government that I will EVER support. Transferred prisoners are rendered to other countries for the express purpose of torturing them to "make them talk".
I don't have any respect for Obama left, after I supported him so strongly because of his so-called stand against torture.
you wanted, but likely the best you'll ever get. Apart from the fault you mention and blowing up suspected terrorists and kids by drones in Pakistan, and supporting the Israeli atrocities in Gaza, he has taken some positive steps that would not have happened under a Republican. When you take over the controls of the world's largest war machine, you're bound to get some blood and brain matter on your hands.
Your excuses for Obama don't matter and are spineless. Extraordinary rendition for the purpose of torture is a war-crime.
LC
(Edit) Sorry, didn't mean to come down on you so hard, but Obama's caving to the CIA's "poor us if we can't do what we love doing" makes me red-hot angry, and it isn't going to go away.
America is still a nation ruled by "men", not by law.
for a week. Use common sense man!
A fucking week! Do you expect full employment by the end February? Be patient! He took this job at the worst moment in this country's history. Just be patient!
Bush fucked the county in eight years.
It took him a week to allow illegal torture through extraordinary renditions to CONTINUE, MAN, a war-crime. Another Obama apologist who doesn't believe in the rule of law?
I had a mighty sugar maple.
Then, one day, in a big windy storm, it just blew over, and made a big mess in my yard. I had the mess cleaned up and eventually had the stump ground down and removed.
Bugs had gotten to the maple over time -- it was rotten at its core.
Our country is like that. The bugs have been at work for many years.
do we have to know about the bush war crimes befor this New Goverment acts.
See doco The President vs David Hicks.
There was serious criminal activity when some of these innocent men were picked up. Many were herded like cattle into trucks and the military stood by as Afgans shot into the trucks. Many were murdered. Many of these men were picked up as bounty money, nothing more.
How much have some of these men seen? How much will come out if they are allowed to go free?
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Jeanne
Rescumlicans would rather torture and ruin anyones life than admit they fucked up. I hope all the Gitmo prisoners sing like birds and sue like hungry lawyers.
We have to have the courage as a nation to review these atrocities. If we do not we will be chained to our guilt. Our strength will be our weakness for we can continue this abuse of power if it protects us. Pres Obama will be just as chained as bush if he continues to feel the need to hide criminal activity. And that is all that this has been...criminal activity.
Jeanne
.....every time I think the world and most of humanity sucks.....you go and find a guy like the good Colonel here......good on him....to bad he's one of the really few......
Regards,
O'Guillory
I mean Prosecuting attys will sweat blood to prove an innocent guy guilty. And out of all the Prosecutors assigned to Gitmo, only one went against training and type, because the shit is so goddamned shoddy. And how ANYONE can justify keeping anyone there a second longer is well beyond my ken.
to continue with this travesty is prosecutorial misconduct
me-oww!
Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld has a sense of decency and honor. I am glad that he is speaking out.
Go check out Lt Col Barry Wingard's (Crooks/liars site) conclusions from the defense perspective for what lays ahead for the GTMO detainee's.
Remember the Commission process is designed and operated (Prosecutors Office) by the fine folks over at the DOJ. You know, the DOJ; the guys that brought you the "Torture Memo's" and the "Antiquated Geneva Convention" (Gonzales) fame.
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