Word: gitmo
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...even Agency veterans winced at the latest bombshell from Gitmo: the revelation that the CIA destroyed 92 videotapes that may have shown detainees being subjected to harsh interrogation techniques. "It would have been my instinct to say that these [videotapes] are the sort of thing we have to keep," says Ford...
...Nonetheless, the French court's judgment points to a key difficulty the Obama Administration will face as it wrestles with how to deal with Gitmo's 245 remaining detainees. The plan is to try the hard-core terrorists in federal courts, but the Bush Administration's authorization of legally questionable interrogation techniques at the prison now gives many detainees a get-out-of-jail card. "Anytime you try to use criminal courts to prosecute, there's a good chance they're going to be acquitted," says Padmanabhan...
...There's also the logistic conundrum of what to do with detainees exonerated by federal judges after their cases have been reviewed: 20 such men are technically free but remain at Gitmo because the Obama Administration has not yet been able to arrange their transfer to other countries. These include 17 Uighurs from western China; human-rights activists say they should not be released to China because authorities there would probably imprison them...
...Eugene Fidell, president of the National Institute of Military Justice, says the weekly drip-drip of controversy and embarrassment over Gitmo is "part of the aftermath of the arrangements put in place - and legal and political risks the government took - under President Bush." But he doesn't expect the Obama Administration to backtrack or even slow down on plans to release detainees. "I don't see why, as we have known for some time that other countries to whom we release people may be either unwilling or unable or both to put and keep them in custody," he says...
...anyone had any remaining doubt about Obama's commitment to closing Gitmo, it was put to rest by Attorney General Eric Holder, who visited the prison this week and came away impressed by how well it was being run. He acknowledged that it would be difficult to close - but added that he's still going to do it. "It's going to take us a good portion of that time to look at all of the files that we have to examine, until we get our hands around what Guantánamo is, and also what Guantánamo...