{"id":197235,"date":"2008-02-21T00:16:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-21T05:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/wait-a-minute-we-cant-have-acquittals\/"},"modified":"2008-02-21T00:16:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-21T05:16:00","slug":"wait-a-minute-we-cant-have-acquittals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/21\/wait-a-minute-we-cant-have-acquittals\/","title":{"rendered":"Wait a Minute, We Can&#8217;t Have Acquittals."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So said Pentagon general counsel William Haynes, when it was explained that fair trials always have the possibility of acquittals.<\/p>\n<p>I guess he just <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/doc\/20080303\/tuttle\">hates America and fair trials<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the article, largely based on interviews with Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the Guant\u00e1namo&#8217;s military commissions.<\/p>\n<p>What we find is, as is stated in the article, &#8220;For people like Haynes, justice is meant to serve the party.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Stalinism at its finest, ant it is unnecessary when the defendants are as guilty as hell.<\/p>\n<p>It will be the Saddam show trials all over again, and the officers officiating and prosecuting, along with the civilians directing them, are violating international law, and US treaty obligations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So said Pentagon general counsel William Haynes, when it was explained that fair trials always have the possibility of acquittals. I guess he just hates America and fair trials. Read the article, largely based on interviews with Col. Morris Davis, former chief prosecutor for the Guant\u00e1namo&#8217;s military commissions. What we find is, as is stated &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,972,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crimes-against-humanity","category-justice","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197235"}],"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=197235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}