1.18.2007

Heinous: Detainees' To Be Tried Based On Hearsay And Co-erced Testimony, With Penalty of Death

This is heinous - and heinous simply is not a strong enough word to describe a Pentagon detainee "trial manual" that undercuts every safeguard in American jurisprudence which, if you go back and look at the documents upon which the American justice system is based, do NOT set different standards for non-Americans. And understand that once you allow a Muslim or someone else to be tried on lesser, highly questionable standards, you open the door to allow yourself, your family, your friends, and your community members to be tried as shoddily as well:

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.