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Guantanamo Hearings Delayed as Legal Files Vanish
houghi writes "The defense lawyers of Guantanamo prisoners have been ordered to stop using government computers for sensitive information due to security and confidentiality concerns. One News from New Zealand says 'In another case, system administrators were searching files at prosecutors' request and were able to access more than 500,000 defense files, including confidential attorney-client communications.' Due to all this, hearings were postponed."
Because they're military defence lawyers, and thus serving members of the military?
You haven't really been following this story, have you?
The defense attorneys aren't military and some of them are quite outspoken against their client's treatment.
Not only the defense lawyers... http://harpers.org/blog/2008/02/the-great-guantanamo-puppet-theater/
"Davis submitted his resignation on October 4, 2007..."
"Colonel Davis is not just any JAG officer. He was an up-and-comer widely viewed in his peer group as someone in line for a star, and ultimately perhaps, to be the Air Force’s Judge Advocate General. He is also no whining civil libertarian, but rather a no-nonsense conservative, whose prior scraps with civilians in the Pentagon came over the restraints they put on his ability to charge forward and prosecute cases."
It's not entirely fair to blame Obama. CONGRESS told him in no uncertain terms he could not hold civilian trials. And Congress told him he could not close a "secret base" in spite of the fact that the previous president NEVER ASKED to use Gitmo in this manner.
For all the posturing in the media, the GOP LIKE the way things are. They LIKE the Drone bombing campaigns, they have the military ranks packed well enough all the Top brass is loyal to the GOP first because they keep funding coming.
There are plenty? Citation please?
I remember reading that finding countries willing to take them in was indeed a problem.
I don't read AC A human right
Finding countries to take certain of them is a problem. The big problem, though (the real bar to closing Guantanamo) is the people who we know are guilty but can't legally prove are guilty because the evidence of their guilt was obtained unconstitutionally.
As a result, we have a class of people who are effectively permanent detainees.