Pentagon releases Tapes and Transcripts of Detainee Hearings

This morning on NPR's Morning Edition you might have caught this report, Pentagon Releases Tapes of Detainee Hearings by;

by Jackie Northam

Morning Edition, September 14, 2007 · The Pentagon releases excerpts of audio tapes from closed military hearings for Guantanamo Bay detainees. A panel of military judges is deciding if detainees can be held indefinitely as enemy combatants.

than again, if you weren't listening, you may not have.

You can listen to the report, in RealPlayer, if you did miss it.

A search over to the DoD site starts to become a headache when looking for something specific, the words used in their search bar, detainee, hearings, and a few others kept giving me a page starting off with links to items on rummy, i.e. rumsfeld, don't know what to make of that, guess one needs to use their inmagination if so inclined, I'm not.

An AP article had a link at the bottom to the DoD site of the public access of this release.

At that page you'll find this Combatant Status Review Tribunals/Administrative Review Boards.

Below you will find a few links of further information you than see this ** High Value Detainees CSRT Information ** with a list of detainee names numbering only 14.

Apparently the rest, as we've heard, are still being held without charges and only accusations, under the seemingly very slow process of investigating the why of their captivity in Getmo.

Under each, of the 14 names, you'll find this:

* Unclassified Summary

* Transcript of CSRT Hearing

* Audio of CSRT Hearing

these are links to PDF reports with the obvious one at the bottom being the Audio feeds, coming up in 'QuickTime'.

As the NPR report states they are abit grainy, I listen to two of them, but clear enough to understand much of them.

For you lawyers or law buffs you might find this informtion very interesting. For researchers this may come in handy for something you are working on now, or might try something in the future.

Here are a few more articles on the subject:

Pentagon releases audio portions of 9/11 suspect's testimony
Xinhua

Pentagon Censors 9/11 Suspect's Tape
Guardian Unlimited

9/11 tapes declassified
Times Now TV

The reports seem to have just been released in the last 20hrs. or so.