{"id":196825,"date":"2008-03-20T23:12:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/judge-in-gitmo-kangaroo-court-allows-defense-to-call-witnesses\/"},"modified":"2008-03-20T23:12:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-21T04:12:00","slug":"judge-in-gitmo-kangaroo-court-allows-defense-to-call-witnesses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/03\/20\/judge-in-gitmo-kangaroo-court-allows-defense-to-call-witnesses\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge in Gitmo Kangaroo Court Allows Defense to Call Witnesses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While <a href=\"http:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/breaking_news\/story\/462928.html\">this is quite magnanimous of Navy Capt. Keith Allred to all lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan<\/a>, bin Laden&#8217;s driver, this still gives no credibility to military commissions.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the prosecutors have no concept as to the rule of law, arguing that, &#8220;the driver could have conspired in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks without knowing about the suicide plot&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules that they have would like to see adopted, this would place the truck drivers supplying food to the guards at Abu Ghraib under jeopardy for torture.<\/p>\n<p>I agree with Captain Allred&#8217;s assessment, that &#8220;The issue of whether the accused was &#8216;merely a driver,&#8217; or knew the unlawful purpose and was actively engaged in the unlawful work of al Qaeda seems to be very much at issue&#8221;, though I think that excluding subsequent treatment at CIA run and Military run Gulags from the purview of questions, when their answers may have been coerced is a bad decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While this is quite magnanimous of Navy Capt. Keith Allred to all lawyers for Salim Ahmed Hamdan, bin Laden&#8217;s driver, this still gives no credibility to military commissions. It appears that the prosecutors have no concept as to the rule of law, arguing that, &#8220;the driver could have conspired in the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196825"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196825\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}