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The Nürnberg defence
A while back, the administration and the U.S. military announced that six ‘high-level’ detainees at Guantánamo Bay would be brought to trial under military commissions (authorized by the execrable Military Commissions Act of 2006 [MCA]). They even had the chutzpah to claim that the defendants would be afforded “an extraordinary set of rights”, better than those afforded the Nazi defendants at Nürnberg, and the accused assassins of Abraham Lincoln.
They’re lying, of course. The only thing “extraordinary” about the rights afforded is the paucity of such, compared to what most people (excluding the administration and its flacks) would consider the essential hallmarks of a fair trial.
I’ve detailed the actual situation in depth in two longish posts at my other blog, here and here. Included are comparisons of what was afforded by the the Nurnberg trials, and comments from one of the actual Nurnberg prosecutors.
If anyone has historical information or sources on the conduct of the Lincoln assassination trials, I’d appeciate this information as well … although I suspect that it will also show that the administration is badly stretching the truth, if not outright lying, once again.
Filed under: Al Qaeda Bush, Bill of Rights (Amendments I - X), Constitution, Crimes Against Humanity, Evidence, History, History Repeats, Military, Nuremberg Trials, Prosecutorial misconduct, Scott Horton, Terrorism, Travesties of Justice, War Crimes
This is an interesting fact….to me, at least. My mother was a secretary to one of the tribunals at the Nuremberg Trials. She was in the pool that prepared the press release announcing the death of Hermann Goering.
In her possession is a dollar bill with his signature. She was in a holding cell with him when he asked her for a cigarette. She said she would give him one if he signed her dollar bill. He did.
What a wonderful experience for a single girl from Cincinnati in her early 20s!!