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“This is classic Sherlock Holmes ‘the-dog-didn’t-bark’ evidence” of cooperation between the progressive groups and the administration, Rivkin said. The groups “are always bitching about [legal] impunity, and how impunity encourages aberrant behavior and weakens deterrence,” he said. “So where is their outrage? Why are they not criticizing a war criminal going free?” If U.S. troops had committed war crimes and were let go, Rivkin told TheDC, “wouldn’t every newspaper in the country be horrified and slamming the administration? How is it better to let an enemy war criminal go [free] to be hailed and praised?”

Miami HeraldJune 26, 2003Base Ready For Terror Trials, U.S. SaysBy Carol RosenbergThe U.S. Naval Base at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, is prepared to stage military tribunals against terror suspects, the commander of the Pentagon's Southern Command said Wednesday.Army Gen. James T. Hill said the infrastructure at America's first-ever offshore detention center for terror suspects has been in place since April in case the Pentagon orders that the commissions be staged in the U.S.-controlled corner of Cuba.The Pentagon is awaiting a decision by President Bush on whether and whom to put on trial, and where.There is no timeline for an announcement.Meantime, sailors,...