December 12, 2007
Gitmo Detainess Have More Rights than Goering
You mean the Nazis at the Nuremberg tribunals had less rights than detainees at Guantanamo? If Bush is a fascist for his policy on the treatment of terror suspects, and Truman's Nuremberg policy was even worse.....does that make Truman worse than Hitler? You know, since Bush = Hitler.
Washington Times:
Nearly 100 foreign enemy combatants to be tried at Guantanamo Bay will have more rights than Nazi war criminals who faced the Nuremberg tribunal, a Senate panel was told yesterday.Can you imagine Hermann Goering or Rudolph Hess appealing to the U.S. Supreme Court? Or better yet, that Congress would be more worried about the way in which evidence was gathered, during a time of war, against the Nazis than they were about the actual crimes they had committed?Detainees in the war on terror will have the presumption of innocence and an automatic appeal, the latter not even afforded to U.S. citizens, said Brig. Gen. Thomas W. Hartmann, legal adviser to the Convening Authority for the Office of Military Commissions.
"No such presumption existed," said Gen. Hartmann in reference to Nuremberg while speaking to the Senate Judiciary subcommittee on terrorism, technology and homeland security. "There were no rules of evidence, and virtually any evidence was freely admitted.
"That was painfully apparent to those who were found guilty and received the death penalty — they were hung within hours and days of the completion of the sentence announcement," he said.
Steven A. Engel, Justice Department deputy assistant attorney general, said that extending the peacetime notion of habeas corpus to military prisoners would be "unprecedented."
"In the nearly 800 years of the writ's existence, no English or American court has ever granted habeas relief to alien enemy soldiers captured and detained during wartime," Mr. Engel said.
It's like we're living in Bizarro world.
