And, yes, I DO take it personally: Scheduling executions on hearsay evidence

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And, yes, I DO take it personally

Saturday, January 20, 2007

Scheduling executions on hearsay evidence

joshua holland, writing in alternet, offers a chilling perspective on how detainees will be tried under the new and abhorrent military commissions act...

The Defense Department has drafted a manual for trying detainees at the Guantanamo, Cuba, jail that would allow terror suspects to be imprisoned, convicted and executed on the basis of hearsay evidence or coerced testimony.

this makes two days in a row of starting off with really glomy news...

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