Ethics

Obama Calls for Break in Gitmo Trials

By Ed Brayton

One of the first acts of the Obama administration was to instruct prosecutors at the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay to ask the judges in those cases to half all current tribunals and delay the start of any pending cases, presumably to give the new administration the opportunity to review the case files and the evidence to decide how to handle each individual case as they prepare to close the prison.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on January 22, 2009 (boomark / email).