White House outlines plan for Guantanamo detainees' trials

[Judi Lynn]

Thursday, July 20, 2006. 12:40pm (AEST)
White House outlines plan for Guantanamo detainees' trials

The White House has outlined a plan to try foreign terrorism suspects that lawmakers say will combine the military commissions the US Supreme Court declared illegal with provisions to increase suspects' legal rights.

White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley and Attorney-General Alberto Gonzales have met with top Senate Republicans, hoping to push a bill through Congress to meet the court's demands for fair trials for suspects held at the US naval facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.

Senators say the White House will send language for a bill in the next week or two and that it will not press Congress to simply ratify the military commissions President George W Bush established after the September 11 attacks.

But Republican Senators John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who want to base the new rules on the military code of justice that would significantly expand detainees' rights, dodged questions on whether they were satisfied with the White House approach.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200607/s1691885.htm

[leesa]

1. Why are they so afraid to put these people on trial? In real trials??

Could it be because they are not guilty of anything whatsoever? McCain and Graham working hard to hide the war crimes they have committed.

[Moderator]

2. duplicate

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2400424