Jess Bravin: "The Terror Courts: Rough Justice At Guantanamo Bay"
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2013-02-20/jess-bravin-terror-courts-rough-justice-guantanamo-bay
In the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, the U.S. rounded up hundreds of suspected terrorists in Afghanistan and around the world. Many ended up at a special military detention center in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, where they would face what officials called “rough justice.” Instead of trials in military, federal or state courts, enemy aliens would be prosecuted by military commissions subject to the president’s command. Wall Street Journal correspondent Jess Bravin and Lt. Col. Stuart Couch, former senior prosecutor in the Office of Military Commissions, describe the complex ethical and legal challenges dogging the Guantanamo Commissions.
Guests
Jess Bravin
Supreme Court correspondent at the Wall Street Journal and author of "The Terror Courts."
Stuart Couch
U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel (Retired), and currently an immigration judge in Charlotte, N.C.
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Copyright 2013 by Jess Bravin. Reprinted here by permission of Yale University Press. All rights reserved.
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GITMO needs to be closed! We are perfectly capable of trying terrorists in the mainland and if convicted, perfectly able to keep them in prison for life. There has never been an escape from a Maximum security prison, as far as I know. Not one terrorist has ever escaped from a Max cell, and there are many locked up now. GITMO is too expensive in monetary cost, too expensive in PR cost.
CLOSE IT!
Bring the troops home.
NOW.
Until we end the embargo with Cuba GITMO will continue to be funded and used. It's just a fact of life.
Freedom rocks wrote: "GITMO needs to be closed! We are perfectly capable of trying terrorists in the mainland and if convicted"
Fact is most people do not want the terrorists tried on our soil, remember the uproar in New York. Fact is most people do not think our non military judicial system is the place to try enemy combatants. Until this changes GITMO will remain.
It does not matter what "most people think". "Most people" are not using reason, they are using fear based mythology to make policy decisions. The fact is that we can, and have, tried more dangerous people in the US. They are in prison now, and are no threat to anybody outside of those prisons. GITMO serves no purpose, other than a recruiting platform for AQ. It costs almost a million US taxpayer dollars per YEAR per inmate to house them in Castros Cuba.
Given the recent sequestration discussion in Washington, how much money is being spent on this facility?
911 was an inside job....
Dr. Marcy Wheeler aka Emptywheel.net has done an amazing job trying to keep the public in the news about Gitmo and other critical issues. No "forgetting" as Diane mentioned at her site. Diane you should have Marcy Wheeler on your program to discuss this critical issue and other serious issues. She goes deep in her research. She is the blogger who was given permission to live blog the Libby trial, she came up with the figure of how many times KSM had been water boarded etc
http://www.emptywheel.net/2013/01/28/rather-than-close-gitmo-well-just-i...
Can your guest please discuss how the US has defied international law by detaining prisoners for decades with out prosecuting.
Suicides at Gitmo? Questionable deaths? Please discuss. Also what Gitmo does to the US's international standing holding prisoners for a decade without putting them on trial. Example for the world
The Guantánamo “Suicides”: A Camp Delta sergeant blows the whistle
By Scott Horton
http://harpers.org/blog/2010/01/the-guantanamo-suicides-a-camp-delta-ser...
Justice delayed,is justice denied. I would have liked the trials to be held in New York city. I thought they could use the U.S.Intrepid,tow it mid harbor,and hold trials.Security could be provided by the Coast Guard,and no added traffic jams.Brigs already installed. I do not care what kind of trials the Republicans would allow,civil or military.Don`t care..Just do it
When will we end the SHAME ?? Only the closing of GITMO,will begin to undo the Abu Ghraim shame.Now we learn of 50 secret prisons around the world. For far too many, torture and murder is all they know about the United States.They don`t know we`re supposed to be the good guys.
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Diane, I'm extremely unhappy with your euphemistic use of the words "rough justice" to tiptoe around the fact that these detainees were tortured, as defined under the Geneva Conventions, by US military and intelligence personnel while in US custody at Guantanamo. These were and are war crimes, the prosecutor you were interviewing was complicit in those crimes, as is everyone in the Bush Administration who knew of, approved, or encouraged these crimes. Up to and including former President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney.
Justice has an arm
that's long
Justice has a name
that's old
They are working on
a new kind though
down in Guantanamo
Our people just
Our people fair
Unless you come from
over there.....
The eagle wont hold
much for you
except time in a
single cell
Cause what you say
and what you do
tortured in
this living hell