If the U.S. is Closing Gitmo

If the U.S. is Closing Gitmo, Why is the Pentagon Recruiting New Lawyers to Defend its Detentions?

By Willam Fisher, IPS News. Posted April 15, 2009.

NEW YORK, Apr 14 (IPS) -- U.S. President Barack Obama has ordered the Navy’s prison at Guantanamo Bay closed by next January, suspended military commission trials, and assigned Attorney General Eric Holder to conduct case-by-case reviews of the 241 prisoners still detained there to determine which ones should be prosecuted, released or sent to other countries.

Yet the Obama Defense Department is still trying to recruit lawyers to defend its detentions.

In a ''help wanted'' ad circulated through the American Bar Association, the Pentagon (DOD) is offering 39,407 to 130,211 dollars a year for lawyers who will help respond to habeas corpus petitions filed by detainees in federal courts.

SOURCE: ALTERNET


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