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Guantanamo Trials Rigged Says Former Chief Prosecutor

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posted on Mar, 3 2008 @ 12:05 PM
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Guantanamo Trials Rigged Says Former Chief Prosecutor


www.nytimes.com

Still in the military, he has irritated the administration, saying in articles and interviews that Pentagon officials interfered with prosecutors, exerted political pressure and approved the use of evidence obtained by torture.

Now, Colonel Davis has taken his most provocative step, completing his transformation from Guantánamo’s chief prosecutor to its new chief critic. He has agreed to testify at Guantánamo on behalf of one of the detainees, Salim Ahmed Hamdan, a driver for Osama bin Laden.

Colonel Davis, a career military lawyer nearing retirement at 49, said that he would never argue that Mr. Hamdan was innocent, but that he was ready to try to put the commission system itself on trial by questioning its fairness. He said that there “is a potential for rigged outcomes” and that he had “significant doubts about whether it will deliver full, fair and open hearings.”
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posted on Mar, 3 2008 @ 12:05 PM
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As a prosecutor, Davis was ordered by General Hartmann to write up a pompous incriminating instruction that would make a good stand in the media, which he refused. He further refused to allow illegal evidence obtained through torture to be introduced into the processes. But apparently, his Pentagon superiors are intensely pushing for a trial abiding by no modern standards and mimicking the spanish inquisition's methods and pompous behaviour.

This is an insult to civilization, democracy, and truth.


www.nytimes.com (visit the link for the full news article)

[edit on 3-3-2008 by ergoli]



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