Your bias is showing again cnyndwllr. -g-
And they've not been properly charged, much less convicted, of being terrorists. Not in any court of the US, not in any world court and not in the courts of their home nations.
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Every single detainee currently being held at Guantanamo Bay has received a hearing before a MILITARY TRIBUNAL, but I guess that isn't good enough for you?
I guess you missed Michael D. Cumming's post yesterday?
I don't think you'd approve of anything this administration, or apparently our Military, does, but here goes anyway.
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Debunking another Gitmo myth
Every single detainee currently being held at Guantanamo Bay has received a hearing before a MILITARY TRIBUNAL. Every one. As a result of those hearings, more than three dozen Gitmo detainees have been released. The hearings, called "Combatant Status Review TRIBUNALs," are held before a board of officers, and permit the detainees to contest the facts on which their classification as "enemy combatants" is based.
Gitmo-bashers attack the Bush administration's failure to abide by the Geneva Conventions. But as legal analysts Lee Casey and Darin Bartram told me, "the status hearings are, in fact, fully comparable to the 'Article V' hearings required by the Geneva Conventions, in situations where those treaties apply, and are also fully consistent with the Supreme Court's 2004 decision in the Hamdi v. Rumsfeld case."
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