Posted on 09/29/2011 10:31:53 PM PDT by Rabin
The Obama administration’s handpicked choice to run prosecutions at the Guantánamo war crimes court is pledging a new era of transparency from the remote base, complete with near simultaneous transmissions of the proceedings to victims and reporters on U.S. soil… Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins denounced military commissions system, which Barack Obama scorned as a candidate and senator then reformed with Congress as president.
Gen Martins, Army lawyer starts the job of Chief Prosecutor for Military Commissions on Oct. 3, according to a Pentagon spokesman.
The the war court where he prosecutes will “feature new measures to ensure transparency, including a venue enabling victims and media to observe proceedings near-real-time in the continental United States.”
(Excerpt) Read more at stripes.com ...
http://www.emptywheel.net/2011/09/27/cover-up-specialist-mark-martins-chosen-as-gitmo-chief-prosecutor/
On Sunday, Carol Rosenberg informed us that there will be a new Chief Prosecutor in charge of military commissions at Guantanamo.
Martins is in reality a hack who is dragged out periodically by the Pentagon to cover up its worst abuses.
Who's on first? R
Try them, convict them and put their hanging on TV. That I can live with.
I don’t even want to see trials. I’m surprised they have lived this long.
Just send them to the bottom of the ocean with their pal bin-Laden.
There is that. An option that the majority of Americans could live with.
Sure, the “families” can watch....but the reason for wanting to try them in NY was for the effect it would have on jihadis who will ALSO get to watch. THIS can only be incendiary... and this admin damn well knows it.
This needs examined a little closer here. Motive?
“A new era of transparency”
Bwahahahahahaha!
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