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Tuesday, June 26, 2007 12:00 AM

Standards of American justice under George W. Bush

A New York Times Op-Ed by a U.S. military prosecutor seeking to defend the humane conditions at Guantánamo proves the exact opposite point.
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  • Tuesday, June 26, 2007 07:18 AM

    My favourite was still Padilla

    Where the government actually claimed he wasn't fit to stand trial, so his claims of abuse wouldn't be heard, which one wag dubbed it: "You can't believe him when he says we tortured him because he's crazy from all the things we did to him"

    It really is the era of Kafka and Heller.

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