Manual to allow executions based on hearsay Quote:
The Pentagon has drafted a manual for upcoming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorists to be convicted on hearsay evidence and coerced testimony and imprisoned or put to death.
According to a copy of the manual obtained by The Associated Press, a terror suspect's defense lawyer cannot reveal classified evidence in the person's defense until the government has a chance to review it.
The manual, sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday and scheduled to be released later by the Pentagon, is intended to track a law passed last fall by Congress restoring President Bush's plans to have special military commissions try terror-war prisoners. Those commissions had been struck down earlier in the year by the Supreme Court.
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So this is what "American justice" now means. Heresay evidence or a confession elicted under torture can now be used to condemn an "enemy combatant" to death. No habeas corpus, no rules of evidence, no oversight. It is the judicial equivalent of what happened at Haditha.
And who is an "enemy combatant"? Anyone the government says is an "enemy combatant." The Bill of Rights is null and void.