Manual to allow executions based on hearsay

[OrangeEmpire]

Manual to allow executions based on hearsay - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com

WASHINGTON - The Pentagon has drafted a manual for upcoming detainee trials that would allow suspected terrorists to be convicted on hearsay evidence and coerced testimony and imprisoned or put to death.
According to a copy of the manual obtained by The Associated Press, a terror suspect's defense lawyer cannot reveal classified evidence in the person's defense until the government has a chance to review it.
The manual, sent to Capitol Hill on Thursday and scheduled to be released later by the Pentagon, is intended to track a law passed last fall by Congress restoring President Bush's plans to have special military commissions try terror-war prisoners. Those commissions had been struck down earlier in the year by the Supreme Court.

Thoughts?

 

[volinbham]

The news report I heard presented statements from those responsible for the manual. These statements indicated that the manual was completely consistent with the Geneva Convention. (don't know if that's true or not but if it is, then I don't see a real problem).

Also, it was stated that coerced (via torture) testimony would NOT be allowed and that hearsay evidence must be corroborated (not play a major role).

 

[WA_Vol]

Manual to allow executions based on hearsay - U.S. Security - MSNBC.com



Thoughts?

I think that bill is attached to an amendment revising the 2 term limit on presidents. The manual needs to be rewritten in wordspeak, to pass though.

 

[MG1968]

It says a lot about the virtues of our society when we can even have this debate. There aren't very many other countries in the world that will wring it's hands like we do over the treatment of prisoners, military prisoners especially.

We know what happens to our soldiers when they are captured by terrorists in Iraq yet it's the US military that turns itself inside out over a pyramid of naked prisoners with empty sandbags covering their heads.

 

[Pepe_Silvia]

I think every terrorist and insurgent we capture should be harshly interrogated to get useful info out of them and then they should be immediately executed. That's what we're going have to do to win this war. I would also love to see what the eurotrash and liberals would have to say about it.