Gonzales Blames Legal Challenges For Five Year Delay In Bringing Gitmo Detainees To Trial

[kpete]

Gonzales Blames Legal Challenges For Five Year Delay In Bringing Gitmo Detainees To Trial

The track record of the Guantanamo detention program “can be summed up quite simply: five years, zero convictions.” More than 770 captives have been held there and just 10 have been charged with crimes.

But in an interview today with the Associated Press, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales “blamed delays in trying terror detainees at Guantanamo Bay on legal challenges filed by their lawyers“:

“It’s not for lack of trying,” Gonzales said, when asked about the legal fate of detainees who have been held at the military facility, in some cases for five years. “We are challenged every step of the way.”

“We are trying as hard as we can to bring these individuals to justice,” he said.


more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/01/16/gonzales-gitmo/

[Solly Mack]

1. uh..and just how many "challenges" did/do the secret prison detainees

get?

Lying piece of petrified shit

[durtee librul]

2. Yep, they are trying just as hard

as they did in NOLA to help the Katrina vics....absolutely laughable....how can he keep a straight face and say this crap?

[napi21]

4. I think Shrub must hold secret lessons for his entire admin. on how

to lie and never be challenged! All of them are soooo good at it!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

6. it is called bush-ethics 101.

the 200 levels are concentrated courses for WH legal counsel
the 300 levels are directed to SexState Rice, SecDeaf Gates and the evil man who puts "vice" into the presidency.

[napi21]

3. Waiat a minute! What about Shrub saying they weren't eligible for

the legal system? What about Shrub wanting to only hold military tribunals? Did I miss something here?

[MilesColtrane]

5. The Dungeonmaster is a liar. n/t

[Shakespeare]

7. That despicable little shithead.

What a complete LOAD.

[Chulanowa]

8. “We are trying as hard as we can to bring these individuals to justice,”

In other words, they're trying as hard as they can to waterboard a confession out of these guys. And to imagine, we all thought we'd moved past dunking witches in rivers.

[BrewerJohn]

9. Legal challenges to being held without charges, perhaps?

Yeah, the regular criminal courts have such a problem with that, they actually have
to resort to filing charges and scheduling trials. Can you imagine it?

:nopity: