U.S. Plans Annual Reviews of Gitmo Cases

[Khephra]

WASHINGTON -- A three-member panel of U.S. military officers would annually review the case of each prisoner held at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and recommend whether they could be freed, under a proposal announced by the Pentagon on Wednesday.

The reviews, announced by Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld in February, will determine whether prisoners, if released, would remain a threat to the United States, officials have said.

Officials have described the panel as a kind of parole board for the terrorism suspects held at the Guantanamo naval base.

The prisoner's home country and family could take part in the review, providing information that either would help free the detainee, or keep him imprisoned, a public draft of the review policy says. The prisoner would be allowed to defend himself.

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[bobbieinok]

1. military officers? annual reviews? this is AMERICA????????

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[Just Me]

2. unfuckinfascistbelievable!!!

They are behaving just as lawlessly as did that Hitler they pretend to oppose or as any other imperialist ever has,...

They are despots through and through. Say "bubye" to the rule of law.

[pfitz59]

3. The new gulag!

ANY who particpate are criminal! Unfreaking believable.