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Attorney General Holder added:
"The executive order....strengthens the legal framework under which we will continue to detain those individuals who are at war with our country and who pose a significant threat to the security of the United States."
No matter that virtually everyone at Guantanamo is innocent. Yet they've been lawless detained extrajudicially, and subjected to unspeakable tortures and ill-treatment, most, in fact, for years.
Human Rights organizations condemned Obama's EO. The Center for Constitutional Rights (CCR) said the following:
"Today's executive order....codif(ies the lawless) status quo. The creation of a review process that will take up to a year (then repeated quadrennially) is a tacit acknowledgment that the Obama administration intends to leave Guantanamo as a scheme for unlawful detention without charge and trial for future presidents to clean up," though who'll be courageous enough to try.
Many thought Obama would. Instead, he continued the same lawless Bush practices, adding more of his own. Overall, his record shows contempt for lawful justice. As a result, "Guantanamo and the military tribunal system are no longer an inheritance from the Bush administration - they will be President Obama's (permanent) legacy."
The ACLU said the following:
Flaunting international law, due process, and judicial fairness, "the Obama administration....institutionaize(d) unlawful indefinite detention (and) revive(d) the illegitimate Guantanamo military commissions....The detention of Guantanamo detainees for nine years without charge or trial is a stain on America's reputation that should be ended immediately, not given a stamp of approval."
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