Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo – washingtonpost.com

Obama Seeks Halt to Legal Proceedings at Guantanamo – washingtonpost.com.

GUANTANAMO BAY, Cuba, Jan. 20 — In one of its first actions, the Obama administration instructed military prosecutors late Tuesday to seek a 120-day suspension of legal proceedings involving detainees at the naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba — a clear break with the approach of the outgoing Bush administration.

The instruction came in a motion filed late Tuesday with a military court handling the case of five defendants accused of organizing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks on the United States. The motion called for “a continuance of the proceedings” until May 20 so that “the newly inaugurated president and his administration [can] review the military commissions process, generally, and the cases currently pending before military commissions, specifically.”

Púchica, para aquellos incrédulos, para aquellos que el cinismo no los dejó, por tan sólo un día, caminar en el aire y regalarle sonrisas de triunfo para la humanidad al que pasaba por su lado, esta noticia llega a darnos esperanza que Obama sí quiere encaminar a la nación por un mejor camino. O como se dice en inglés, he means business!

¡Un paso al frente presidente Barack Hussein Obama!