Eric Kaniut

served as the supervisingcite news
url=http://www.iht.com/bin/print_ipub.php?file=/articles/2005/03/24/news/gitmo.php
publisher=International Herald Tribune
title=Case reviews designed to cut Guantánamo population
author=Neil A. Lewis
date=Friday, March 25, 2005
accessdate=2007-07-15] officer over the 2005 OARDEC board, and the Administrative Review Boards convened for each detainee, at the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.cite news
url=http://www.jtfgtmo.southcom.mil/wire/WirePDF/v6/TheWire-v6-i010-10JUNE2005.pdf#3
title=Annual review boards continue: OARDEC teams review detainee status
pages=3
volume=6
issue=10
publisher=The Wire (JTF-GTMO)
author=Spc. Jeshua Nace
date=Friday, June 10, 2005
accessdate=2008-02-23
quote=] cite news
url=http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/ny-wogit174307762jun17,0,7685080.story?coll=ny-worldnews-toputility
title=Inside a Gitmo review: A Saudi detainee faces military panel, without seeing a lawyer or evidence, that decides his fate
author=Letta Tayler
publisher=Newsday
date=June 17, 2005
accessdate=2007-07-15]

His 1994 Masters Thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School was entitled "United Nations Reform: The Need for Legitimacy" [ [http://www.stormingmedia.us/40/4017/A401792.html Storming Media: Pentagon Reports, Fast, Definitive, Complete.] ]

He has been awarded two Defense Meritorious Service Medals, a Meritorious Service Medal, three Navy Commendation Medals and two Navy Achievement Medals. [http://cprw-10.ahf.nmci.navy.mil/cso.html CPR: Wing Ten Biography] ]

Guantanamo

Initially the Bush Administration had ruled that the Department of Defense was not obliged to provide any opportunity for the Guantanamo captives to learn, and attempt to refute, the allegations used to justify their continued extrajudicial detention.

One of the effects of the United States Supreme Court's ruling in Rasul v. Bush was that the DoD had to provide an opportunity for the captives to learn and respond to the allegations against them. The one-time Combatant Status Review Tribunals and the Administrative Review Boards were the "administrative procedures" the DoD designed to fulfill the Supreme Court's requirement.

According to the "International Herald Tribune" Kaniut asserted: quotation
*"The bottom line we look at is whether they are a threat to the U.S."
*"...are just like a parole board" One critic responded to Kaniut's description that the Tribunals and Boards were "just like a parole board" by asking.cite news
url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9405E4DA153FF93BA15750C0A9639C8B63
publisher=Letters to the Editor of the New York Times
title=Kafka at Guantánamo
author=Steven Girshick
date=March 25, 2005] quotation
"So the detainees, not having been convicted of anything, are facing a parole board: a scenario worthy of Kafka."

According to "The New Republic", Kaniut asserted that the protections these procedures provided were "unprecedented".cite news
url=http://www.tnr.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050822&s=ackerman082205
title=Why the Bush administration defends Guantanamo: Island Mentality
author=Spencer Ackerman
publisher=The New Republic
date=August 22 2005
accessdate=2007-07-15]

More than half the captives declined to attend their Administrative Review Board hearings. When asked to explain the lack of participation Kaniut attributed it to the captive's cynicism.cite news
url=http://www.staugustine.com/stories/032405/wor_2970877.shtml
date=Thursday, March 24, 2005
author=Carol Rosenberg
publisher=St. Augustine Record
title=Guantanamo detainee gets hearing in rare glimpse of review process
accessdate=2007-07-15]

In a profile in The Wire Kaniut said::

References

External links

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url=http://www.jaxairnews.com/stories/012904/mil_expo001.shtml
date=Wednesday, January 28, 2004
title=Future Sailors visit Jax
author=Eric Clay
publisher=Jax Air News
accessdate=2007-07-15