{"id":196323,"date":"2008-05-07T05:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-05-07T10:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/07\/bush-plans-to-use-guantanamo-trials-for-november-election-failing\/"},"modified":"2008-05-07T05:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-05-07T10:07:00","slug":"bush-plans-to-use-guantanamo-trials-for-november-election-failing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/05\/07\/bush-plans-to-use-guantanamo-trials-for-november-election-failing\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Plans to Use Guantanamo Trials for November Election Failing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that non only will they miss the election deadlines, but that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/05\/05\/AR2008050502315.html\">the trials will not have started by the time that Bush leaves office either<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This affair is a complete cock-up.  We already have the former prosecutor <a href=\"http:\/\/40yrs.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/ex-gitmo-prosecutor-offers-to-testify.html\">saying that administration officials were demanding convictions because an acquittal would be inconvenient<\/a>, and , &#8220;and one high-ranking Pentagon officer has been quoted talking about the &#8220;strategic political value&#8221; of doing so before the November elections,&#8221; so it looks like this mess will be dumped on whoever is sworn in in 2009, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.attytood.com\/2008\/02\/bush_lays_a_guantanamo_trap_fo_1.html\">Will Bunch notes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that non only will they miss the election deadlines, but that the trials will not have started by the time that Bush leaves office either. This affair is a complete cock-up. We already have the former prosecutor saying that administration officials were demanding convictions because an acquittal would be inconvenient, and , &#8220;and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,1032,972,1168],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-torture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196323"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}