lipstick on a pig: Pentagon launches war court website

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In a futile attempt to disguise the true nature of the current President's resurrection of the Bush administration's misappropriation of the use of military commissions, and in defiance of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling (Hamdan v. Rumsfeld) against military tribunals at Guantanamo, the Defense Department went live with a new site in anticipation of the first death penalty war crimes prosecution of the Obama administration. Hailed as "a new era of transparency" the move actually represents preemptive cover for criminal extension of executive power.

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This page contains a single entry by Curt Wechsler, The World Can't Wait published on September 28, 2011 4:42 PM.

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