Obama denies terror suspects right to trial

Less than a month after signing an executive order to close the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, President Barack Obama has quietly agreed to keep denying the right to trial to hundreds more terror suspects held at a makeshift camp in Afghanistan that human rights lawyers have dubbed “Obama’s Guantanamo”.

In a single-sentence answer filed with a Washington court, the administration dashed hopes that it would immediately rip up Bush-era policies ... Full Story »

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Kenneth Sibbett
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by Kenneth Sibbett - Feb. 23, 2009

While sourced mainly by Human Rights Advocates, this is not going away. With Obama concentrating on the economy and Holder just finding out which office is his, I can understand a slight delay. But they have to remember, these are people who are suffering,along with their families.

While the Obama Admin., is just beginning, the Congress has a duty to find out ever thing they can about the abuses in these prisons.

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