{"id":197304,"date":"2008-02-14T17:47:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/more-evidence-that-destroyed-evidence-will-prevent-fair-trials-at-gitmo\/"},"modified":"2008-02-14T17:47:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T22:47:00","slug":"more-evidence-that-destroyed-evidence-will-prevent-fair-trials-at-gitmo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/02\/14\/more-evidence-that-destroyed-evidence-will-prevent-fair-trials-at-gitmo\/","title":{"rendered":"More Evidence that Destroyed Evidence Will Prevent Fair Trials at Gitmo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2008\/02\/13\/AR2008021303164.html?hpid=sec-nation\">tapes of interviews and <strike>torture<\/strike> interrogations were routinely overwritten<\/a>, in defiance of a court order.<\/p>\n<p>Not only does cast a pall over the Guantanamo show trials, it may make it impossible to hold a trial in a real court as a result.<\/p>\n<p>The cynic in me believes that this was the intent.  Screw it up so badly that the only alternative is a Kangaroo court.<\/p>\n<p>Look at Saddam Hussein&#8217;s trial.  How you run such an unfair trial, when the defendant was so plainly guilty, is completely beyond me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears that tapes of interviews and torture interrogations were routinely overwritten, in defiance of a court order. Not only does cast a pall over the Guantanamo show trials, it may make it impossible to hold a trial in a real court as a result. The cynic in me believes that this was the intent. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[970,972,1006,1076],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-197304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-corruption","category-justice","category-military","category-terrorism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197304"}],"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=197304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}