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Gitmo chief gone

By Karl R. Keys, Esq.

mcjoan @ DailyKos notes: Last week The Nation published a damning account from Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for Guantánamo’s military commissions: When asked if he thought the men at Guantánamo could receive a fair trial, Davis provided the following account of an August 2005 meeting he had with Pentagon general counsel William Haynes–the man who now oversees the tribunal process for the Defense Department. “[Haynes] said these trials will be the Nuremberg of our time,” recalled Davis, referring to the Nazi tribunals in 1945, considered the model of procedural rights in the prosecution of war crimes. In response, Davis said he noted that at Nuremberg there had been some acquittals, something that had lent great credibility to the proceedings...continue to full post

Full post as published by Capital Defense Weekly on February 25, 2008 (boomark / email).