Thursday, August 25, 2005

Trusting the DoD?

Where is the OUTRAGE ?

When The US Military converted the base at Guantanamo into a prison camp, there was a little outrage, but not much. And so the US went ahead and trashed the Geneva Convention, then the Constitution, and lied and hid all manner of torture and illegal actions taken by the military.

But the excuse was that these people were “enemy combatants”, members of Al Qaeda, who would use our own laws against us!

And now the Military Tribunals have admitted that some of them are innocent. But are they out? Are they even treated any differently? NOOoooooo…….

Read this:

All 15 Uighurs have actually been cleared for release from Guantanamo Bay twice, once after a Pentagon review in late 2003 and again last March, U.S. officials said. Seven other Uighurs were ruled to be enemy combatants and will continue to be detained.

Even after the second decision, however, the government did not notify the 15 men for several months that they had been cleared.


Further, Attorneys for the men only know the first names of 9 of their clients, and have never met 13 of them, and cannot file a writ of habeas corpus to see the charges or meet their clients because the whole imprisonment process is S.E.C.R.E.T.