Countdown – Military commissions, nope
ecthompsonmd
June 11, 2007
Okay. everyone who thought these military commissions were going to be constitutional raise your hand. No, not you, Cheney. ————- From NYT: The government’s new system for trying Guantánamo detainees was thrown into turmoil Monday, when military judges in separate decisions dismissed war crimes charges against two of the detainees. The rulings, the latest legal setbacks for the government’s effort to bring war crimes charges against detainees, could stall the military’s prosecutions here. The decisions did not turn on the guilt or innocence of the detainees, but rather made essentially the same determination that the military had not followed procedures to
