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March 3, 2008
American Bar criticizes Bush plan for trials of 9/11 detainees
By Amanda Lang
ABA president tells Bush that inadequate resources available to defendents Pentagon counsel and the fundamental lack of due process in the Gitmo tribunal system undermine US standards of justice. The ABA's president emphasized that detainees "cannot challenge their detention by habeas corpus," "the standards for admissibility of evidence could allow for convictions based on rank hearsay,"...
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ABA president tells Bush that inadequate resources available to defendents Pentagon counsel and the fundamental lack of due process in the Gitmo tribunal system undermine US standards of justice. The ABA's president emphasized that detainees "cannot challenge their detention by habeas corpus," "the standards for admissibility of evidence could allow for convictions based on rank hearsay,"...OpedNews volunteer from 2005 to 2013.
Amanda Lang was a wonderful member of the Opednews team, and the first volunteer editor, for a good number of years being a senior editor. She passed away summer 2014.