Tuesday, February 23, 2016

My My ---UPDATED...

Seven years and one month after Obama announced he was going to close Guantanamo he finally released a plan to close the place....
The plan is short on details... (like where will the men, like my client, be housed whom the president has claimed cannot be released but cannot be tried) you can read it here.

The Center for Constitutional Rights has released a statement blasting Obama's so call "plan"

Meanwhile, the centerpiece of the plan – moving those detainees who have not been and will never be charged with any crime to a prison in the U.S. – does not “close Guantánamo,” it merely relocates it to a new ZIP Code. The infamy of Guantánamo has never been just its location, but rather its immoral and illegal regime of indefinite detention. Closing Guantánamo in any meaningful sense means putting an end to that practice.

Read the rest here.