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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems...8/s1426797.htm Quote:
Leaked emails from two former prosecutors claim the military commissions set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay are rigged, fraudulent, and thin on evidence against the accused.
Two emails, which have been obtained by the ABC, were sent to supervisors in the Office of Military Commissions in March of last year - three months before Australian detainee David Hicks was charged and five months before his trial began.
The first email is from prosecutor Major Robert Preston to his supervisor. Maj Preston writes that the process is perpetrating a fraud on the American people, and that the cases being pursued are marginal... "Surely they don't expect that this fairly half-arsed effort is all that we have been able to put together after all this time."Maj Preston says he cannot continue to work on a process he considers morally, ethically and professionally intolerable.
"I lie awake worrying about this every night," he wrote."I find it almost impossible to focus on my part of mission.
By North America correspondent Leigh Sales Monday, August 1, 2005. 8:16am
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Something rotten in the States of America
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The second email is written by another prosecutor, Captain John Carr, who also ended up leaving the department. Capt Carr says the commissions appear to be rigged.
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Anything not rotten in the States. Maybe China did this too. (ref Newsweek)
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