2nd Report on the Guantanamo Detainees: Revealing Inconsistencies

[understandinglife]

SECOND REPORT ON THE GUANTANAMO DETAINEES:

Inter- and Intra-Departmental Disagreements About Who Is Our Enemy

By
Mark P. Denbeaux
Professor, Seton Hall University School of Law and
Counsel to two Guantanamo detainees

&
Joshua Denbeaux, Esq.
Denbeaux & Denbeaux

&
David Gratz, John Gregorek, Matthew Darby, Shana Edwards,
Shane Hartman, Daniel Mann, and Helen Skinner
Students, Seton Hall University School of Law

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

1. The Department of Defense identified 72 terrorist organizations in the Combatant Status Review Tribunals (“CSRT”). The Defense Department considers affiliation with any one of these groups sufficient to establish that a Guantanamo detainee is an “enemy combatant” for the purpose of his continued detention. This report refers to these 72 terrorist organizations as the “Defense Department List.”

2. Fifty-two of those groups, 72% of the total, are not on either the Patriot Act Terrorist Exclusion List or on two separate State Department Designated and Other Foreign Terrorist Organizations lists (jointly referred to as the State Department Other Lists). These lists are compiled for the purposes of enabling the government to protect our borders from terrorists entering the United States.

3. Twelve of the organizations, 18% of the total, are on either the State Department Other Lists or the Patriot Act Terrorist Exclusion List, but not on both.

4. Members of 64 of the 72 groups the Defense Department believes to be terrorist organizations, 89% of the total, would be permitted in the United States by either the State Department Other Lists or the Patriot Act Terrorist Exclusion List.

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(The next 4 items in the ES will not make you feel any safer ...)

Full report:
http://law.shu.edu/news/second_report_guantanamo_detainees_3_20_final.pdf

It seems that the best slogan Bu$h and his buddies in Congress can adopt is "We're all Brownie, all the time."


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[EFerrari]

1. I agree with Belafonte on the subject of major terrorist threats.

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[understandinglife]

2. Relevant "Talk Left" posts on the Denbeaux reports:

Report: More than Half of Gitmo Detainees Not Accused of Hostile Acts

Link: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/013976.html

Second Report on Guantanamo Detainees Released

Link: http://talkleft.com/new_archives/014344.html


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[understandinglife]

3. This is an important report, everyone.

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[DemReadingDU]

4. K&R

[understandinglife]

5. Thank you. I hope everyone at DU reads this and shares it with ...

... as many others as possible. The implications are obvious - Bush and his Republican croinies in Congress have spent billions of OUR money and have not even remotely protected us, while finding all kinds of ways to violate our Constitutional rights.


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