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Monday, December 04, 2006

Why is the building of the war-crimes court at Guantánamo now an "emergency?"

something smells very rotten here...
The Pentagon is invoking emergency authority to fast-track funding of a comprehensive war-crimes court compound at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, according to a letter to Congress obtained by The Miami Herald.

Department of Defense spokesmen would not say when -- if ever -- the Pentagon had last invoked similar authority.

Nor would they specify which military construction already approved by Congress would be frozen to fund the courtroom project, which could cost as much as $125 million, according to U.S. government documents.

But, in a Nov. 17 letter to several Republican and Democratic senators and House members, Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England explains the unusual move this way:

"Due to national security implications and extreme urgency, emergency construction was authorized pursuant to Section 2808 of title 10, United States Code."

the news that it was being planned smelled rotten enough... now, it's starting to smell like a dead skunk under the back porch...

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