{"id":5982,"date":"2008-11-10T16:00:25","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T21:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=5982"},"modified":"2008-11-10T13:16:36","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T18:16:36","slug":"obama-works-quietly-to-close-down-guantanamo-bay-ready","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/election-08\/obama-works-quietly-to-close-down-guantanamo-bay-ready\/","title":{"rendered":"Obama Works Quietly to Close Down Guantanamo Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader,<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the President-Elect is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/ap\/2008\/11\/10\/america\/NA-US-Obama-Guantanamo.php\" target=\"_blank\">working quietly<\/a>\u0412\u00a0to coordinate release for a number of prisoners as well as trials for the remaining incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Under plans being put together in Obama&#8217;s camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts.<\/p>\n<p>A third group of detainees \u0432\u0402\u201d the ones whose cases are most entangled in highly classified information \u0432\u0402\u201d might have to go before a new court designed especially to handle sensitive national security cases, according to advisers and Democrats involved in the talks.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the article, it appears Obama will face some opposition from both sides of Congress over the new court.\u0412\u00a0The structure of the new &#8220;third&#8221; court would be a hybrid of the current judicial system and possibly the military tribunal structure currently used by the Bush Administration.<\/p>\n<p>Planet Waves\u0412\u00a0will be following this story as it progresses.\u0412\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Yours and truly,<\/p>\n<p><strong>Fe Bongolan from San Francisco<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Friend and Reader, The Office of the President-Elect is working quietly\u0412\u00a0to coordinate release for a number of prisoners as well as trials for the remaining incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba. Under plans being put together in Obama&#8217;s camp, some detainees would be released and many others would be prosecuted in U.S. criminal courts. &#8230; <a title=\"Obama Works Quietly to Close Down Guantanamo Bay\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/election-08\/obama-works-quietly-to-close-down-guantanamo-bay-ready\/\" aria-label=\"More on Obama Works Quietly to Close Down Guantanamo Bay\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[533],"tags":[36,52,547,548,546],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}