Peter B. Collins Presents Andy Worthington
Since Obama’s May 5 speech, very little has changed at Guantanamo. British journalist Andy Worthington notes that while two Algerians were released in August, and in early October the Pentagon named its Special Envoy for Guantanamo (and Parwan in Afghanistan), very little else has changed since Obama lamented the hunger strike and blamed Congress. Worthington points out that the president can use an existing waiver process on some or all of the 84 men who have been cleared for release since 2009–some far longer. We also discuss about 46 men Collins calls “zombies”, who will not be charged or tried but held indefinitely, and the obvious improprieties that have marked the early stages of the trials of Khalid Sheikh Muhammed and 4 co-defendants.
* Andy Worthington is an acknowledged expert on Guantanamo, and his book The Guantanamo Files identifies almost all of the 776 people who have been incarcerated there since 2002. He is based in London, a founder of Close Guantanamo, and his website is here.
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