Jun 09 2009

Feingold Hearing Over Now, Open Thread?

Going on now Feingold Hearing, live webcast at that link.

and GreenSooner has a Live blog going at the orange

“The Legal, Moral, and National Security Consequences of ‘Prolonged Detention'”

Senate Judiciary Committee

Subcommittee on the Constitution

View a live webcast of this hearing

DATE: June 9, 2009

TIME: 10:00 AM

UPDATED Witness List

Hearing before the Senate Committee on the Judiciary,

Subcommittee on the Constitution

on

“The Legal, Moral, and National Security Consequences of ‘Prolonged Detention'”

Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Dirksen Senate Office Building Room 226

10:00 a.m.

Panel I

Sarah H. Cleveland

Louis Henkin Professor of Human and Constitutional Rights

Faculty Co-Director, Human Rights Institute

Columbia Law School

New York, NY

Richard Klingler

Partner

Sidley Austin LLP

Washington, DC

David Laufman

Partner

Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

Washington, DC

Tom Malinowski

Washington Advocacy Director

Human Rights Watch

Washington, DC

Elisa Massimino

CEO and Executive Director

Human Rights First

Washington, DC

David B. Rivkin, Jr.

Partner

Baker Hostetler LLP

Co-Chairman

Center for Law and Counterterrorism

Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Washington, DC

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    • Edger on June 9, 2009 at 17:31
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  2. this morning they moved this guy to NYC… for trial.

    Early this morning a plane landed in New York containing US Marshals and Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a Tanzanian national held at Guantanamo Bay since September 2006.

    Ghailani, currently being held at the Metropolitan Correctional Center, faces 286 separate criminal charges stemming from his alleged role in the Aug. 7, 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassies in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and Nairobi, Kenya, including conspiring with Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda to kill Americans, and a separate charges of murder for each of the 224 people killed embassy bombings.

    He is the first Guantanamo detainee transferred to the US to stand trial in federal court and will appear in a federal court in Manhattan later today.

    Hmmm, what about Al Mari?

    and this…

    The former commander of the USS Cole, Kirk S. Lippold, of Military Families United, “by bringing Ghailani’s case into the federal court system without a policy or plan on how to deal with the larger GITMO issue, the Obama Administration is again taking a piecemeal approach to a major national security issue.”

    The Obama administration argues that the Southern District of New York has a long record of successfully prosecuting terror cases, including  Abdel-Rahman, Yousef, and Wadih el-Hage who was convicted in the 1998 embassy bombings.

    “In order to close the Guantanamo Bay facility and to strengthen our security, we must break the logjam that has kept the detainees in legal limbo since its construction,” says an Obama administration official. “For over seven years, we have detained hundreds of people at Guantanamo.  During that time, the ad hoc legal system established by the previous administration succeeded in convicting only three people.  Instead of bringing terrorists to justice, efforts at prosecution met setbacks, cases lingered on, and in 2006 the Supreme Court invalidated the entire system.”

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