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To: geode00 who wrote (502591)12/2/2003 11:36:11 PM
From: geode00  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 769667
 
Lawyers think the admin is ethically compromised?

news.bbc.co.uk

"Military lawyers appointed to defend alleged terrorists being held by the US at Guantanamo Bay have expressed growing unease, according to reports.

The UK's Guardian newspaper says that a team of lawyers was dismissed after complaining that the rules for forthcoming trials were unfair.

New York's Vanity Fair magazine reports that some of the lawyers say their ethical obligations are being violated...

"a monstrous failure of justice".

The judge said the detainees were being deliberately held beyond the rule of law and the protection of any courts.

And in October, a former US appeals court judge, John Gibbons, told BBC News Online that justice was being "totally denied" to the detainees in Guantanamo...."