Gitmo Detainees Subject to Detention Even if Acquitted: Pentagon
By AFP
Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20442.htm
The Irrelevancy of the Gitmo Trials
By Jacob G. Hornberger
If the Pentagon can continue imprisoning a defendant who has been acquitted, then what's the point of a trial? Isn't the trial more in the nature of a show trial, similar to those conducted by the Soviet Union?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20441.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
Some detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba will likely never be released because of the danger they pose, and those tried and acquitted will still be subject to continued detention as enemy combatants, a Pentagon spokesman said Tuesday.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20442.htm
The Irrelevancy of the Gitmo Trials
By Jacob G. Hornberger
If the Pentagon can continue imprisoning a defendant who has been acquitted, then what's the point of a trial? Isn't the trial more in the nature of a show trial, similar to those conducted by the Soviet Union?
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article20441.htm
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Gitmo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Guantanamo
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detainees
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=detention
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=enemy+combatant
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Jacob+G.+Hornberger
rudkla - 7. Aug, 09:18
