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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 07:07 AM

    The Times Culpability

    The Times implicates itself by publishing blatant government propaganda. There are not two "sides" to this issue. There are no facts in dispute as to whether the stipulation was coerced. And yet they publish a piece blandly asserting that it was not.

    Orewellian doesn't begin to describe this.

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