disrupter
02-20-2008, 09:07 PM
Gitmo Trials Already Rigged for Politics
"I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process," Davis continued. "At which point, [Haynes's] eyes got wide and he said, 'Wait a minute,
we can't have acquittals.
If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can't have acquittals, we've got to have convictions.'"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/tuttle
SCOTT HORTON: . . . You have to remember that Jim Haynes is not just anybody. As the general counsel of the Department of Defense, he’s the person who stands near the apex of this process.
. . . .
He’s not the prosecutor. The prosecutors report to him. The defense counsel report to him. The judges report to him. The convening authority reports to him. He stands over this entire process. And he already has an established track record of intervening in these cases for political purposes, for political manipulation. The Wall Street Journal broke that story the third week of September when they showed how he had intervened to mastermind the plea bargain in the Hicks case, in which the prosecutors were excluded. Haynes was involved doing this, and he was involved doing it basically to make good on pledges that Vice President Cheney had made to the Australian prime minister, to help out his friend in Australia in connection with an election. So that already set the tone here.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/20/guantanamo
It is all about politics to cover the shitty assholes of the Neocon crap.
A complete sham,
a fraud of the first & grandest order.
Compounding the already black mark of even having the gitmo gulag in the first place.
The entire 'war on terrorism' is largely just as fraudulent.
"I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process," Davis continued. "At which point, [Haynes's] eyes got wide and he said, 'Wait a minute,
we can't have acquittals.
If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can't have acquittals, we've got to have convictions.'"http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/tuttle
SCOTT HORTON: . . . You have to remember that Jim Haynes is not just anybody. As the general counsel of the Department of Defense, he’s the person who stands near the apex of this process.
. . . .
He’s not the prosecutor. The prosecutors report to him. The defense counsel report to him. The judges report to him. The convening authority reports to him. He stands over this entire process. And he already has an established track record of intervening in these cases for political purposes, for political manipulation. The Wall Street Journal broke that story the third week of September when they showed how he had intervened to mastermind the plea bargain in the Hicks case, in which the prosecutors were excluded. Haynes was involved doing this, and he was involved doing it basically to make good on pledges that Vice President Cheney had made to the Australian prime minister, to help out his friend in Australia in connection with an election. So that already set the tone here.http://www.democracynow.org/2008/2/20/guantanamo
It is all about politics to cover the shitty assholes of the Neocon crap.
A complete sham,
a fraud of the first & grandest order.
Compounding the already black mark of even having the gitmo gulag in the first place.
The entire 'war on terrorism' is largely just as fraudulent.