The man who called us a nation of cowards is visting Gitmo

Attorney General Eric Holder and top aides are touring the U.S. military prison facilities at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba to help advance the administration’s plans to empty the facility of detainees within one year.

Holder and a team of five others involved in the process of deciding what to do with the detainees arrived mid-morning and were immediately briefed by military officials, according to Holder’s chief spokesman Matt Miller.

“He’s being briefed on case histories and discussing the charges that were pending for detainees before the suspensions,” Miller said. “He’s touring all the buildings and the expeditionary legal complex which houses the military courtrooms,” Miller said.

Holder is accompanied by Matthew Olsen, who is acting assistant attorney general for the National Security Division. Holder named Olsen Friday as the executive director of the Guantanamo Review Task Force which will recommend whether the 245 remaining detainees should be removed to other countries, be released, be tried on criminal charges in civilian courts in the United States or should be tried in before military courts.

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February 23, 2009 · Filed Under Uncategorized


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