One Year and Counting: When and How Will Guantanamo Close?
1/22/2010
January 22, 2010 marked the passing of President Obama's self-declared deadline to close the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. To take note of the missed deadline, the Constitution Project joined with the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Open Society Institute to cosponsor a panel discussion examining what prevented the administration from reaching its goal and what obstacles remain to closing the detention facility. Titled "One Year and Counting: When and How Will Guantánamo Close?," the program featured an array of voices, including current and former government and military officials, a sitting federal judge, a former federal prosecutor in New York City, advocates, and litigators.
Video of the event is available below:
Photos taken at the event are also available:
Participants included:
Moderator: Jeffrey Toobin, The New Yorker
Stephen Abraham, Lieutenant Colonel (Ret.), US Army Intelligence Corps (Reserves)
Honorable John Coughenour, Federal District Court, Seattle, WA, who presided over the 2005 trial of Ahmed Ressam, known as the Millennium Bomber
Talat Hamdani, September Eleventh Families for Peaceful Tomorrows
Shane Kadidal, Senior Managing Attorney, Guantánamo Global Justice Initiative, Center for Constitutional Rights
Celeste Koeleveld, Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief Appellate Attorney, and Assistant United States Attorney, U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York (1991-2008)
