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To: Lane3 who wrote (23896)	7/13/2006 7:31:55 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) of 541286

Why do we need to talk about "what we're trying to accomplish in having tribunals in the first place"? A tribunal is a tribunal is a tribunal. A neutral, fact-finding, law-dispensing body. With a good programmer by my side, I could design a computer that could do it (but not one which was tempered by mercy). Facts in, law applied, judgment out. That's not what the argument is about. It's about what I told you months ago, which facts come in (part of due process). The administration said, "we're going to use hearsay, we're going to use evidence obtained via torture, we're going to use only cherry-picked evidence and not allow the defendant access to the entire record and the entire set of facts so he can raise an adequate defense," and the SCOTUS said no. Not just no, but hell, no.

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