Closing Guantanamo Bay Fades As A Priority

==The Obama administration has refused to release Odaini for the past 16 months, & fought vehemently in this habeas proceeding to keep him imprisoned. As the court put it, the Obama DOJ argued "vehemently" that there was evidence that Odaini was part of AlQaeda. In fact, the ObamaAdministration knew this was false. This WashingtonPost article this weekend quotes an "administration official" as saying: "The bottom line is: We don't have anything on this kid." But after Obama decreed in January that no Yemeni detainees would be released -- even completely innocent ones, and even though the Yemeni government wants their innocent prisoners returned -- Obama DOJ lawyers basically lied to the court by claiming there was substantial evidence to prove that Odaini was part of AlQaeda even though they know that is false. In other words, the ObamaAdministration is knowingly imprisoning a completely innocent human being who has been kept in a cage in an island prison, thousands of miles from his home, for the last 8 years, since he's 18 years old, despite having done absolutely nothing wrong.



It really is hard to imagine many things worse, more criminal, than imprisoning people for years whom you know are innocent, while fighting in court to keep them imprisoned. But that's exactly what the ObamaAdministration is doing. ==



http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/glenn_greenwald/2010/06/21/pundits
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