Secrecy, coercion, torture: this is legal?
Miami Herald
by staff
04/08/07
No war-crimes process at Guantanamo will ever be seen as legitimate by the rest of the world. The problem, Mr. Gates says, is that 100 or fewer of the nearly 400 captives at Guantanamo are the ‘hard-core’ who would return to attack the United States if released. Congress should allow detainees, most of whom are held without charges, to challenge their detention with habeas corpus petitions. Those who remain detained should be tried in a legitimate judicial process with established rules, such as that of the Uniform Military Code of Justice. That would be a start to restoring U.S. credibility...
http://www.miamiherald.com/454/story/67795.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coercion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
by staff
04/08/07
No war-crimes process at Guantanamo will ever be seen as legitimate by the rest of the world. The problem, Mr. Gates says, is that 100 or fewer of the nearly 400 captives at Guantanamo are the ‘hard-core’ who would return to attack the United States if released. Congress should allow detainees, most of whom are held without charges, to challenge their detention with habeas corpus petitions. Those who remain detained should be tried in a legitimate judicial process with established rules, such as that of the Uniform Military Code of Justice. That would be a start to restoring U.S. credibility...
http://www.miamiherald.com/454/story/67795.html
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=coercion
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=torture
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=habeas+corpus
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
rudkla - 10. Apr, 16:16
