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When the President is Prosecutor

By Jonathan Simor

In this past Sunday's NYT, William Glaberson reported on the latest legal travails for the Bush Administration's military commissions set up in Guantanamo to try alleged war criminals. In a case involving Salim Hamdan, characterized by some as Osama Bin Laden's driver, a military judge has issued an order that in effect forbids the Pentagon from continuing to interfere with legal decisions being made by military prosecutors in the Hamdan case. One such decision was whether or not to use evidence derived from interrogations involving torture. The prosecutors had determined to exclude such evidence as unreliable, but that decision was, in effect, overruled by the Pentagon's representative, Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann.The military judge, Navy Captain, Keith J...continue to full post

Full post as published by Governing Through Crime on May 12, 2008 (boomark / email).