Friday, May 30, 2008
You can't have a kangaroo court if the judge believes in justice.
So to keep the Gitmo trials on their proper and preplanned schedule, the Defense Dept has removed the presiding judge who threatened to suspend the trials for that most frivolous of reasons, fairness for the defendants.
Military prosecutors had been pressing Brownback to set a trial date, but he has repeatedly directed them first to satisfy defense requests for access to potential evidence. At a hearing earlier this month, he threatened to suspend the proceedings altogether unless the detention center provided records of Khadr's confinement.Poor Col. Brownback seems to think there may be some doubt about the guilt of the accused. Doesn't he realize that if they are in Gitmo they must be guilty and their guilt must be proclaimed at a most advantageous moment for the Old Fart's campaign? Why else spend all that money to keep them in Cuba?
Kuebler said he believed the U.S. military is anxious for the trial to start before political pressure leads Canada to demand Khadr's repatriation.
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