Monday, October 15, 2007
Quote of the Day
Any military commission Majid is to face will follow rules specifically designed to ensure that the government gets the outcome it seeks.Gitanjali S. Gutierrez, attorney for Majid.
Moreover, the proceedings will be tainted with secrecy. A transparent trial would risk revealing the events surrounding Majid's detention and treatment while in CIA custody. The government's need for secrecy has nothing to do with Majid's alleged wrongdoing -- only the circumstances under which he was captured, hidden away and interrogated. He will continue to be held behind a shroud of secrecy to protect the CIA program under which he was originally detained. He is a prisoner being punished in order to protect his jailers. The logic is terrifying. And it is being done in the name of the American people.
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