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              Obama die de proeven van de V.S. voor de gevangenen van Guantanamo plant
Maandag, 10 November, 2008 De adviseurs van Barack Obama van de nieuwgekozen president bewerken stil een voorstel om dozens te verschepen, als niet honderden, gevangengenomen terrorismeverdachten aan de Verenigde Staten om misdadige proeven, een onder ogen te zien plan dat zou maken goed op zijn belofte om de gevangenis van de Baai van Guantanamo te sluiten maar verwezenlijking van een controversieel nieuw systeem van kon vereisen? rechtvaardigheid. Tijdens zijn campagne, beschreef Obama Guantanamo als „droevig hoofdstuk in Amerikaanse geschiedenis“ en heeft over het algemeen gezegd dat de V.S. het rechtssysteem is uitgerust om de gevangenen te behandelen. Maar hij heeft weinig details aangeboden op wat hij van plan was om te doen zodra de faciliteit is? gesloten. In het kader van plannen die in het kamp van Obama worden uitgewerkt, sommige gevangenen worden bevrijd en vele anderen in de V.S. worden vervolgd. misdadig? hoven. Een derde groep gevangenen? degenen de waarvan gevallen in hoogst geclassificeerde informatie het meest verward zijn? voor een nieuw hof zou kunnen moeten gaan dat vooral aan gevallen van de handvat de gevoelige nationale veiligheid, volgens adviseurs en Democraten betrokken bij de besprekingen in het leven wordt geroepen. De adviseurs die direct aan de planning deelnemen spraken op voorwaarde van anonimiteit omdat de plannen niet zijn? definitief. De beweging zou een scherpe afwijking van het beleid van Bush zijn, dat militaire rechtbanken vestigde om gevangenen bij de basis van de Marine in Cuba te vervolgen en zich sterk verzet brengend gevangenen aan de Verenigde Staten. Had de Republikeinse uitdager van Obama, John McCain, ook ertoe verbonden om Guantanamo te sluiten. Maar McCain verzette zich misdadige proeven, het zeggen van zou de rechtbanken van het beleid van Bush op de V.S. moeten verdergaan? grond. Het plan dat door het team van Obama wordt ontwikkeld is verdedigd door wettelijke geleerden van beide politieke partijen. Maar het is bijna bepaald om oppositie van Republikeinen onder ogen te zien die zich verzetten brengend terrorismeverdachten aan de V.S. en van Democraten wie zich verzetten tot stand brengend een nieuw hofsysteem met minder rechten voor? gevangenen. Het trok kritiek binnenkort van sommige gevangeneadvocaten nadat het opdook? Maandag. „ik denk dat het creëren van een nieuw alternatief hofsysteem in antwoord op de verachtelijke mislukking van Guantanamo een diepgaande fout zou zijn,“ bovengenoemd Jonathan Hafetz, een Amerikaanse Burgerlijke procureur van de Unie van Vrijheden die gevangenen vertegenwoordigt. „Wij hebben geen nieuw hofsysteem nodig. De laatste acht jaar is een testament aan de problemen om te proberen om nieuw te creëren? systemen.“ Laurence Tribe, een de wetsprofessor van Harvard en een rechtskundige adviseur Obama, zeiden de besprekingen over plannen voor Guantanamo „waren geweest theoretisch“ vóór de verkiezing maar snel zeer geconcentreerd geworden omdat het sluiten van de gevangenis met hoogste prioriteit is. Bringing the detainees to the United States will be controversial, he said, but could be?accomplished. “I think the answer is going to be, they can be as securely guarded on U.S. soil as anywhere else,” Tribe said. “We can’t put people in a dungeon forever without processing whether they deserve to be?there.” The tougher challenge will be allaying fears by Democrats who believe the Bush administration’s military commissions were a farce and dislike the idea of giving detainees anything less than the full constitutional rights normally enjoyed by everyone on U.S.?soil. “There would be concern about establishing a completely new system,” said Rep. Adam Schiff of California, a member of the House Judiciary Committee and former federal prosecutor who is aware of the discussions in the Obama camp. “And in the sense that establishing a regimen of detention that includes American citizens and foreign nationals that takes place on U.S. soil and departs from the criminal justice system ? trying to establish that would be very?difficult.” Obama has said the civilian and military court-martial systems provide “a framework for dealing with the terrorists,” and Tribe said the administration would look to those venues before creating a new legal system. But discussions of what a new system would look like have already?started. “It would have to be some sort of hybrid that involves military commissions that actually administer justice rather than just serve as kangaroo courts,” Tribe said. “It will have to both be and appear to be fundamentally fair in light of the circumstances. I think people are going to give an Obama administration the benefit of the doubt in that?regard.” Though a hybrid court may be unpopular, other advisers and Democrats involved in the Guantanamo Bay discussions say Obama has few other?options. Prosecuting all detainees in federal courts raises a host of problems. Evidence gathered through military interrogation or from intelligence sources might be thrown out. Defendants would have the right to confront witnesses, meaning undercover CIA officers or terrorist turncoats might have to take the stand, jeopardizing their cover and revealing classified intelligence?tactics. In theory, Obama could try to transplant the Bush administration’s military commission system from Guantanamo Bay to a U.S. prison. But Tribe said, and other advisers agreed, that was “a nonstarter.” With lax evidence rules and intense secrecy, the military commissions have been criticized by human rights groups, defense attorneys and even some military prosecutors who quit the process in?protest. “I don’t think we need to completely reinvent the wheel, but we need a better tribunal process that is more transparent,” Schiff?said. That means something different would need to be done if detainees couldn’t be released or prosecuted in traditional courts. Exactly what that something would look like remains?unclear. According to three advisers participating in the process, Obama is expected to propose a new court system, appointing a committee to decide how such a court would operate. Some detainees likely would be returned to the countries where they were first captured for further detention or rehabilitation. The rest could probably be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts, one adviser said. All spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the ongoing talks, which have been?private. Waleed Alshahari, who has been following Guantanamo issues for the Yemeni Embassy in Washington, said the plan being discussed by the Obama team was an improvement over the current system. He said, however, he expects most detainees to be released rather than stand?trial. “If the U.S. government has any evidence against them, they would try them and put them in jail,” Alshahari said. “But it has been obvious they have nothing against them. That is why they have not faced?trial.” With more than 90 Yemeni detainees at Guantanamo, the country is home to the largest group of prisoners. The United States and Yemen have negotiated but failed to reach a deal on a prisoner?release. Whatever form it takes, Tribe said he expects Obama to move?quickly. “In reality and symbolically, the idea that we have people in legal black holes is an extremely serious black mark,” Tribe said. “It has to be dealt?with.” Have Your Say: Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees Please read our posting guidelines before posting. Alternatively you can discuss this report here. Related News
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