Civil Liberty Groups Worldwide React Angrily Towards Obama's Decision on Guantanamo
Civil Liberties groups worldwide are not to happy with Obama's decision to reverse himself on military tribunals for detainees at Guantanamo Bay and elsewhere. From the BBC:
Civil liberties groups have reacted angrily to US President Barack Obama's decision to revive military trials for some Guantanamo Bay detainees.
Mr Obama has previously denounced the Bush-era judicial system, but in a statement said new safeguards would ensure suspects got a fairer hearing.
New rules include rejecting statements obtained from harsh interrogations and limitations on using hearsay evidence.
There are still 240 detainees at the US base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Mr Obama halted the controversial military commissions as one of his first acts on taking office in January, saying the US was entering a new era of respecting human rights.
"It's disappointing that Obama is seeking to revive rather than end this failed experiment," said Jonathan Hafetz, a national security attorney at the American Civil Liberties Union.
"There is no detainee at Guantanamo who cannot be tried and shouldn't be tried in the regular federal courts system. This is perpetuating the Bush administration's misguided detention policy."
Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch, said: "By resurrecting this failed Bush administration idea, President Obama is backtracking dangerously on his reform agenda."
For some reason Obama is following the advice of people he was completely at odds with only 5 or so months ago. Some general with medals all over his chest and four stars on his shoulders has the President's ear it would appear. One of the main reasons Obama was elected President was that he cast himself as an outsider, someone who would not get caught up in the Beltway conventional wisdom group think way of things. Disappointingly he sure is listening to it now. The question is why?
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I'm fast regretting voting for Obama. "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
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