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Little Tich

(6,171 posts) Tue Jun 30, 2015, 10:10 PM Jun 2015

U.S. names new envoy for bid to close Guantanamo prison

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A newly appointed special envoy to lead the Obama administration’s efforts to close the Guantanamo prison said he saw a window of opportunity that could substantially reduce the detainee population there in coming months.

Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday named attorney Lee Wolosky, who served in the National Security Council under the administrations of both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, to a post considered crucial to meeting President Barack Obama’s long-standing promise to shut the internationally condemned jail at the U.S. naval base in Cuba.

The appointment marked the latest step in Obama’s slow push to close the detention center where terrorism suspects rounded up overseas after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks have been held for years, mostly without charges or trial.

Wolosky replaces Clifford Sloan, who stepped down at the end of last year after 18 months in the job. He will be the State Department’s point man to negotiate the repatriation of Guantanamo prisoners or their transfers to other countries.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/u-names-envoy-bid-close-guantanamo-prison-002623119.html

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U.S. names new envoy for bid to close Guantanamo prison (Original Post) Little Tich Jun 2015 OP

I hear they used medical doctors to help direct and implement enhanced torture there, delrem Jun 2015 #1

A bit more on him davidpdx Jul 2015 #2

delrem

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1. I hear they used medical doctors to help direct and implement enhanced torture there,

Reply to Little Tich (Original post)

Tue Jun 30, 2015, 10:23 PM

Jun 2015

and at the black sites.
Where most of the bodies just vanished.

I'm glad they don't get the bad rap given Mengele

davidpdx

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2. A bit more on him

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Wed Jul 1, 2015, 12:30 AM

Jul 2015

Before attending law school, Wolosky worked as a research assistant for a Harvard University project focused on Soviet political and economic reform at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. He graduated cum laude from Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal and a recipient of the Frederick Sheldon Traveling Fellowship. While in law school, he served as a law clerk to the Honorable Sonia Sotomayor, who was then a federal district court judge.

Wolosky served as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council at the White House under Presidents Clinton and George W. Bush. The Transnational Threats Directorate was responsible for coordinating the U.S. Government’s response to terrorism prior to 9/11. At the White House, Wolosky had specific responsibility for coordinating U.S. policy relating to illicit finance impacting national security. Wolosky's work at the White House also included directing sensitive operations, including leading the U.S. government effort to apprehend the Taliban and al Qaeda-linked arms trafficker Viktor Bout. Wolosky was noted for his innovative approach for pursuing Bout and is quoted as saying "Bout represented a post-Cold-War phenomenon for which there was no framework to stop. No one was doing what he was doing. And there was no response. We needed to build a response."

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