Lt. Col. Stephen Abraham, the Guantánamo whistleblower, is in the news again. The civilian lawyer, who worked as a military intelligence officer for 26 years in the Army reserves and was decorated for his support of counter-terrorism efforts following 9/11. first came to prominence last month, when he became the first military insider to criticize, in public, the tribunals - known as Combatant Status Review Tribunals - which were held at Guantánamo to determine whether the detainees had been correctly designated as "enemy combatants." In a declaration submitted in the case of a Kuwaiti detainee, Fawzi al-Odah, Abraham delivered a damning verdict on the tribunal process, which he described as severely flawed, relying on intelligence "of a generalized nature - often outdated, often 'generic,' rarely specifically relating to the individual subjects of the CSRTs or to the circumstances related to those individuals' status." Additionally, he averred that the process was designed to rubber-stamp the detainees' prior designation as "enemy combatants."
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