Quote:When asked if he thought the men at Guantánamo could receive a fair trial, Davis provided the following account of an August 2005 meeting he had with Pentagon general counsel William Haynes -- the man who now oversees the tribunal process for the Defense Department. "[Haynes] said these trials will be the Nuremberg of our time," recalled Davis, referring to the Nazi tribunals in 1945, considered the model of procedural rights in the prosecution of war crimes. In response, Davis said he noted that at Nuremberg there had been some acquittals, something that had lent great credibility to the proceedings.
"I said to him that if we come up short and there are some acquittals in our cases, it will at least validate the process," Davis continued. "At which point, [Haynes's] eyes got wide and he said, 'Wait a minute, we can't have acquittals. If we've been holding these guys for so long, how can we explain letting them get off? We can't have acquittals, we've got to have convictions.'"
http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080303/tuttle
Just like Nuremberg. That's where they tried the witches.
A normal country need not play the role of soup-sipping SUPER POWER role.
USA is a country like xyz .
The residents of USA are there to earn their bread and die peacefully.
The system which spread a nightmare in the name of AMERICAN DREAM is rotten to the core.
"The laws and Constitution are designed to survive, and remain in force, in extraordinary times."
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ROME (AFP)--The White House on Thursday said it was reviewing the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling that detainees held at the U.S. military base at Guantanamo Bay have the right to appeal to federal courts.
Aides to U.S. President George W. Bush "are reviewing the opinion," said spokeswoman Dana Perino, who declined immediate comment on what was seen as a blow to the administration's "war on terrorism" policies.
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revel wrote:AP: Exams prove abuse, torture in Iraq, Gitmo
Quote:WASHINGTON - Medical examinations of former terrorism suspects held by the U.S. military at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq and Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, found evidence of torture and other abuse that resulted in serious injuries and mental disorders, according to a human rights group.
For the most extensive medical study of former U.S. detainees published so far, Physicians for Human Rights had doctors and mental health professionals examine 11 former prisoners. The group alleges finding evidence of U.S. torture and war crimes and accuses U.S. military health professionals of allowing the abuse of detainees, denying them medical care and providing confidential medical information to interrogators that they then exploited.
"Some of these men really are, several years later, very severely scarred," said Barry Rosenfeld, a psychology professor at Fordham University who conducted psychological tests on six of the 11 detainees covered by the study. "It's a testimony to how bad those conditions were and how personal the abuse was."
Some people, including so-called Americans, are willing to let Bush use torture in our prisons. They have no idea how much credibility our nation has lost under Bush not only in the US, but abroad. Many adults never learned or understood the meaning of our Constitution and/or Bill of Rights, and in their fear of terrorists have given up everything we stand for.
When Bush was sworn into office, he promised to abide by and protect the Constitution of the United States. He has failed himself and all Americans.
Is Gitmo and Abu Garaib guilty?
China Inspired Interrogations at Guantánamo
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By SCOTT SHANE
Published: July 2, 2008
WASHINGTON ?- The military trainers who came to Guantánamo Bay in December 2002 based an entire interrogation class on a chart showing the effects of "coercive management techniques" for possible use on prisoners, including "sleep deprivation," "prolonged constraint," and
What the trainers did not say, and may not have known, was that their chart had been copied verbatim from a 1957 Air Force study of Chinese Communist techniques used during the Korean War to obtain confessions, many of them false, from American prisoners.
The recycled chart is the latest and most vivid evidence of the way Communist interrogation methods that the United States long described as torture became the basis for interrogations both by the military at the base atGuantánamo Bay, Cuba, and by the Central Intelligence Agency.
Some methods were used against a small number of prisoners at Guantánamo before 2005, when Congress banned the use of coercion by the military. The C.I.A. is still authorized by President Bush to use a number of secret "alternative" interrogation methods.
Several Guantánamo documents, including the chart outlining coercive methods, were made public at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing June 17 that examined how such tactics came to be employed.
But committee investigators were not aware of the chart's source in the half-century-old journal article, a connection pointed out to The New York Times by an independent expert on interrogation who spoke on condition of anonymity.
