U.S. May Revive Guantánamo Military Courts

[Meeker Morgan]

The New York Times
U.S. May Revive Guantánamo Military Courts
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/us/politics/02gitmo.html?_r=1

The Obama administration is moving toward reviving the military commission system for prosecuting Guantánamo detainees, which was a target of critics during the Bush administration, including Mr. Obama himself.

Officials said the first public moves could come as soon as next week, perhaps in filings to military judges at the United States naval base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, outlining an administration plan to amend the Bush administration’s system to provide more legal protections for terrorism suspects.

Continuing the military commissions in any form would probably prompt sharp criticism from human rights groups as well as some of Mr. Obama’s political allies because the troubled system became an emblem of the effort to use Guantánamo to avoid the American legal system.

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Well well well. And will confessions extracted by torture during the Bush administration be admissible evidence even though we sort of don't do that any more?

[mmonk]

1. Their due process has already been denied.

Any move to reinstate any of that is to cover that fact up.