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Titolo: Guantanamo: processi truccati

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200508/s1426797.htm
Monday, August 1, 2005
Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged
By North America correspondent Leigh Sales
Leaked emails from two former prosecutors claim the military
commissions set up to try detainees at Guantanamo Bay are rigged,
fraudulent, and thin on evidence against the accused.
Two emails, which have been obtained by the ABC, were sent to
supervisors in the Office of Military Commissions in March of last
year - three months before Australian detainee David Hicks was charged
and five months before his trial began.
The first email is from prosecutor Major Robert Preston to his
supervisor.
Maj Preston writes that the process is perpetrating a fraud on the
American people, and that the cases being pursued are marginal.
"I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be
marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the
reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the
American people," Maj Preston wrote.
"Surely they don't expect that this fairly half-arsed effort is all
that we have been able to put together after all this time."
Maj Preston says he cannot continue to work on a process he considers
morally, ethically and professionally intolerable.
"I lie awake worrying about this every night," he wrote.
"I find it almost impossible to focus on my part of mission.
"After all, writing a motion saying that the process will be full and
fair when you don't really believe it is kind of hard, particularly
when you want to call yourself an officer and lawyer."
Maj Preston was transferred out of the Office of Military Commissions
less than a month later.
Rigged?
The second email is written by another prosecutor, Captain John Carr,
who also ended up leaving the department.
Capt Carr says the commissions appear to be rigged.
"When I volunteered to assist with this process and was assigned to
this office, I expected there would at least be a minimal effort to
establish a fair process and diligently prepare cases against
significant accused," he wrote.
"Instead, I find a half-hearted and disorganised effort by a skeleton
group of relatively inexperienced attorneys to prosecute fairly
low-level accused in a process that appears to be rigged."
Capt Carr says that the prosecutors have been told by the chief
prosecutor that the panel sitting in judgment on the cases would be
handpicked to ensure convictions.
"You have repeatedly said to the office that the military panel will
be handpicked and will not acquit these detainees and that we only
needed to worry about building a record for the review panel," he
said.
David Hicks' defence lawyer, Major Michael Mori, says the documents
are "highly significant".
"For the first time, we're seeing that concerns about the fairness of
the military commissions extend to the heart of the process," Maj Mori
said.
David Hicks's father, Terry, says the latest revelations confirm what
he has suspected all along.
"These commissions weren't set up to release people," he said.
"These commissions were set up to make sure they were prosecuted and
get the time that they give them, and the other thing we've said all
along, that we believe that this system has been rigged as they call
it."

 Leaked emails claim Guantanamo trials rigged
"Claim" supportato dal nulla piu' assoluto :)
-Stefano

 "Claim" supportato dal nulla piu' assoluto :)
Cioč si tratta di un claim supportato dal tuo cervello?
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Cioč si tratta di un claim supportato dal tuo cervello?
...disse il bue all'asino...
-Stefano

 fraudulent, and thin on evidence against the accused.
Come dicevano i vecchi giornalisti americani, il miglior disinfettante è
la luce del sole. Che facciano processi pubblici regolari e nessuno
sospetterà di loro. Se non li fanno, il sospetto del processo truccato
ci sarà sempre.
-- 
Luca Logi - Firenze - Italy        e-mail: 
ll...@dada.it
   Home page: 
http://www.angelfire.com/ar/archivarius
                   (musicologia pratica)

 ci sarà sempre.
Non si dice che il pesce marcisce dalla testa? Tutto l'ufficio legale 
della Casa Bianca ha lavorato per negare qualsiasi diritto al nemico del 
9/11, e persino un processo da un tribunale americano. Sporchi razzisti.
Am.

 ci sarà sempre.
Oppure che li considerino POW.
Palmiro Pangloss

Sporchi razzisti.
...disse lo sporco razzista....
-Stefano