Now That Latif Has Died But His Precedent Lives, DOD Releases List He Would Have Been On
As Josh Gerstein reported, the government has released a list of 55 Gitmo detainees who have been cleared for release.
The list was dated September 21–almost two weeks after Adnan Farhan abd al Latif died. Note, the list makes it clear there are others who have been cleared, but the names of the others “approved for transfer” are “protected by sealed orders issued by the Court of Appeals.” I assume, from that, that these others are the men who have lost habeas cases, probably in the DC Circuit, and the government doesn’t want to admit how many detainees’ habeas cases it fought after having decided on their own account they could release it.
That is, they don’t want to admit how many other detainees are in the position Latif was in: cleared for release, but held on one dodgy intelligence report.
And now that Latif is dead and that Latif precedent is still valid in the DC Circuit, many of the others on the list are presumably facing that same limbo: held on the basis of what the CIA or DOD dubiously claim when they don’t need to be.
I am not sure what the reference to the appellate court is referring to but I know there are men on the cleared list who lost their habeas cases.
I’m not clear: Who cleared them for release, and who elected to continue to hold them? Thanks
When Obama stepped into office he put together a task force to review the men to see who should be released and who should be tried. To be cleared for release several government entities had to say “yes”- CIA-FBI-MILITARY-STATE DEPARTMENT etc…. they cleared about a 100 men back in 2009 but most have not gone anywhere and we (the attorneys) were told if we disclosed publicly that our client was “cleared” the DOJ would move to have us held in contempt of court and take away our security clearance. Now- all these years later- they finally are releasing the list of the men who were cleared and are still hanging out an Guantanamo (the dead and the released are off the list now out…)
@GKJames: The Gitmo Task Force presumably cleared them. Obama and the Republican Congress elected to hold them.
@hcgorman: How many have been released in that period?
Who says reincarnation isn’t real? I say some have been reborn and went straight from the USSR of 50, 60, 70 years ago and now work in the current US Gov
The Gulag Archipelago
PS OT
One legged soccer player scores a goal
O/T, but I just published my follow-up story on the IG report about the drugging of detainees.
Article includes first look at the drug used on all detainees rendered to and from Guantanamo, a drug the IG report never mentioned.
New Revelations Suggest DoD Cover-Up Over Detainee Drugging Charges