Free Mohammed Jawad Redux

Kool-Aid wearing off ... Unhappy with My Messiah ... Must say something…

This is absolute crap. Obama and Holder had better do the right (and very obvious) thing here. So far they haven’t. Not by a long shot:

The Obama administration has until Friday to decide whether to continue to defend the six-year imprisonment of an Afghan at the prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, who was a teenager when he came into American hands.

The decision was prompted by Judge Ellen Segal Huvelle of Federal District Court, who last week criticized the government’s case against the detainee as “an outrage” that was “riddled with holes.” Judge Huvelle’s comments, made at a hearing in district court in Washington, were not reported at the time.

The detainee, Mohammed Jawad, has drawn international attention because of questions about his treatment as one of the youngest prisoners at Guantánamo.

Judge Huvelle expressed fury at the government for “dragging this out for no good reason” after “your case fell apart,” according to a transcript of the hearing.

Now, Judge Huvelle has given the government until the end of the week to tell the court whether it would produce any witnesses and suggested that she might rule that Mr. Jawad should be returned to Afghanistan.

“You’d better go consult real quick with the powers that be, because this is a case that’s been screaming at everybody for years,” Judge Huvelle said.

This is a case I’d like to see a lot more screaming about.

MORE: Our previous post about Jawad here.

Posted by Kevin K. on 07/23/09 at 10:04 AM • Permalink

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Good for Judge Huvelle.

Comment by Betty Cracker on 07/23/09 at 10:16 AM

Good for Judge Huvelle.

Yes, bravo. She was refreshingly blunt. I had much higher hopes for Holder. This shit isn’t going to cut it:

In his comments Wednesday, Mr. Boyd, the Justice Department spokesman, said the Obama administration made “a dramatic break with the policies of the past” by deciding not to rely on statements obtained through torture, including in Mr. Jawad’s case. He did not comment on why the department had based its case on those statements for months.

Comment by Kevin K. on 07/23/09 at 10:21 AM

Not acceptable.

I’ve considered all sorts of contrarian pretzel-strategies and Mondo Beyondo scenarios where abandoning torture and indefinite detention would risk revealing the truth that Grey Aliens are running the show and “reality” is nothing more than a software program running inside a hollow sphere.

But, enough of this shit. There’s no excuse. Nothing about America will ever be “right” if we don’t end this, yesterday.

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/23/09 at 11:12 AM

Something about Holder comes across as tentative. Ooh, should I prosecute torture? Ooh, should I prosecute Dick Cheney? And what about children, should we treat them like KSM?

Stop me before I start missing John Ashcroft.

Comment by AltHippo on 07/23/09 at 11:36 AM

@AltHippo—Holder sounds more and more like Floyd the Barber musing about whether he should stock more Barbasol or Old Spice.

“Oooooh, but Andy…I hear that up in Mt. Pilate, EVERYONE is using Old Spice now. I just wonder if Aunt Bea would approve of that much sea-fresh briskness. And, ooooh, what about Barney? He gets pretty randy even when I just use the rose-water.”

Comment by StrangeAppar8us on 07/23/09 at 11:51 AM

I have to join the chorus of progressive liberals who think that Obama is flat-out failing on Guantanamo, Indefinite Detention, Torture, Secrecy, Warrantless Wiretapping, etc.

Not good. Not good at all. Maybe Obama is benevolent, maybe not. But the more despotic powers we give the President, the more we are rolling the dice for a disaster of epic proportions.

But, enough of this shit. There’s no excuse. Nothing about America will ever be “right” if we don’t end this, yesterday.

Word.

Comment by t4toby on 07/23/09 at 01:24 PM

@t4toby: I think everyone here would like Obama to move faster, or in the case of detainees that should not be in Guantanamo, to see a swift release. Justice is not being served here.

But, if Obama gets a failing grade, what grade do you give the previous administration? Is there some kind of a 4th dimensional fail? That’s 4th dimensional FAIL to some of our readers.

Here’s my observation: some groups (pumas, for one) just hate Obama. The civil rights issue, imho, is being used by these groups to attract or retain supporters to oppose Obama. Why? Because Obama cheated in the primaries, and we helped.