User:Geo Swan/clippings

Formerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment
xxxFormerly secret Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessmentxxx

On April 25, 2011, whistleblower organization WikiLeaks published formerly secret assessments drafted by Joint Task Force Guantanamo analysts. His Joint Task Force Guantanamo assessment was drafted on It was signed by camp commandant He recommended

Official status reviews
xxOfficial status reviewsxx

Originally the Bush Presidency asserted that captives apprehended in the "war on terror" were not covered by the Geneva Conventions, and could be held indefinitely, without charge, and without an open and transparent review of the justifications for their detention. In 2004 the United States Supreme Court ruled, in Rasul v. Bush, that Guantanamo captives were entitled to being informed of the allegations justifying their detention, and were entitled to try to refute them.

xxxOffice for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatantsxxx

Following the Supreme Court's ruling the Department of Defense set up the Office for the Administrative Review of Detained Enemy Combatants.

Peroidic Review
Guantanamo Review Task Force had concurred with earlier review boards, and recommended he be classed as too dangerous to release, although there was no evidence to justify charging him with a crime.

add archiveurl

 * archivedate =
 * archiveurl  =
 * url-status = live

55 cleared
xxxGuantanamo Review Task Forcexxx

On January 21, 2009, the day he was inaugurated, United States President Barack Obama issued three Executive orders related to the detention of individuals in Guantanamo. He established a task force to re-review the status of all the remaining captives. Where the OARDEC officials reviewing the status of the captives were all "field grade" officers in the US military (Commanders, naval Captains, Lieutenant Colonels and Colonels) the officials seconded to the task force were drawn from not only the Department of Defense, but also from five other agencies, including the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security. President Obama gave the task force a year, and it recommended the release of Shawali Khan and 54 other individuals.

add mapframe


scaffolding
__NOINDEX__

See User:Geo Swan/Stale drafts

arrived at
arrived at the Guantanamo detention camps on January 21, 2002, and has been held there for.