Change You Can Believe In? Secrecy Still Veils Guantanamo Hearings -- McClatchy News
GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- The first full military commission hearings here since Barack Obama became president and pledged to deliver transparency were no more open than the court process had been under President George W. Bush, critics say.
The hearings on Canadian Omar Khadr's claim of abuse opened with a new rule book and closed with the Pentagon banishing four veteran reporters. One of the witnesses was subpoened in secret, six testified under pseudonyms and security officers closed the court to screen a video that's available on YouTube.
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My Comment: Goodbye to the old boss .... hello to the new boss. Or as I like to put it .... the more things change, the more that they stay the same. In short .... I predicted a year and a half ago that Guantanamo will still be here, and (here is another prediction) I will not be surprised if it is still here a year and a half from now.
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