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"We have learned that the Pentagon has just completed a manual for the coming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorist to be imprisoned or executed using hearsay evidence or coerced testimony," said Nora O'Donnell, the chief Washington correspondent for NBC.

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From Information Clearing House

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Pentagon Rules Allow Coerced Detainee Testimony

The Pentagon's rules for upcoming detainee trials would allow terrorism suspects to be convicted and perhaps executed based on hearsay evidence and some coerced testimony.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/011807R.shtml

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Manual lays out rules for Guantanamo trials

CNN

01/18/07

Defense Secretary Robert Gates is submitting to Congress a manual for trials of detainees being held at Guantanamo Bay that would allow the admission of hearsay evidence and coerced testimony, a Pentagon official told reporters Thursday. The manual was drafted to comply with a law passed last year that restored the Bush administration’s military commissions created to try terrorist suspects. The Supreme Court had struck down the commissions as unconstitutional...

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Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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