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Show trials at Guantanamo Bay?

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

This popped up over at Daily Kos. We reprint in its entirety:This was very much how it was done in the bad old days of the Soviet Union:Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guantánamo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar. Nonetheless, a new wave of shock and criticism greeted the Pentagon's announcement on February 11 that it was charging six Guantánamo detainees, including alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, with war crimes--and seeking the death penalty for all of them.Now, as the murky, quasi-legal staging of the Bush Administration's military commissions unfolds, a key official has told The Nation that the trials are rigged from the start...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on February 20, 2008 (boomark / email).