If Obama needs political cover -- and credibility -- on Gitmo, McCain is his man.
Other federal courts hearing the approximately 250 Gitmo habeas cases have sought to answer similar questions.
But at this point the repatriation of Gitmo detainees to Yemen seems dangerous, and recklessly so.
With the closing of Gitmo and secret overseas CIA prisons, future detainees may stay in foreign custody.
Sending Gitmo detainees to Standish Max, they argue, will save the prison and the jobs that go with it.
One of his Gitmo legal colleagues has said that Mr. Wilner was brought into the case by an oil industry client.
Yet for all Europe's excoriations of Gitmo as a blight on America, no one jumped at this easy chance to reduce the prison population.
What was Mr. Wilner doing at Gitmo more than two years before Rasul established the legal basis for lawyers getting access to detainees inside the camp?
"Don't be silly, " one of the residents told Kelly Kimball, one of the members of the Michigan Coalition to Stop Gitmo North, when she heard these warnings.
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Sadly, Mr. Obama's apparent willingness to keep even stakeholder Cabinet members out of the loop is matched by his Capitol Hill allies' clear complicity in hiding Gitmo-related documents.
The Guantanamo Joint Task Force employs a 52-year-old of Middle Eastern descent named "Zak" as a "cultural advisor, " to serve as a conduit between the detainees and Gitmo personnel.
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It is surely true, in theory anyway, that lawyers who argued on behalf of Gitmo detainees in the past can argue for more limited rights when working for the government.
Feinstein has requested that the Government Accountability Office (GAO) produce an assessment of the extent to which there are facilities in the United States that are suitable for housing Gitmo detainees.
One of the top military lawyers for the Gitmo detention facility said he looked into the matter and found no one was listening in on privileged conversations, The Miami Herald reported.
The Gitmo bar had grown to include some 400 lawyers from as many as 50 law firms that were subsidized by the millions of dollars earned from their paying corporate clients.
It is widely acknowledged that the "resignation" Craig tendered in November of last year was the result of his failure to manage the difficult politics involved in shutting Gitmo down.
James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma) to the Military Construction Appropriations bill, which would have prohibited the bill from funding the construction or modification of any facility in the United States to hold Gitmo detainees.
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Of the ninety Senators who voted last summer to deny funding for closing Gitmo, forty-seven later voted to allow the military construction funding to be used to house Gitmo detainees in the United States.
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Mr. Gates, in turning down Mr. Hoekstra's request, stated that once a decision was made on where to transfer Gitmo detainees, only then would state and local officials of the affected locale be brought into the conversation.
In that commitment, he is of the same opinion as his predecessor, as his opponent in the 2008 presidential election, as the senior leadership of the United States military, and many, many others who believe that Gitmo ought to be closed.
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