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Friday, January 19, 2007

U.S. Military Tribunals

The U.S. has issued its manual for military commissions. It's available at
this DOD site.
The rules are surprising, according to Jurist, because they are more restrictive than the ones struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court in Hamdi. The Court ruled the old rules a violation of military rules and of the Geneva Conventions.

The new rules do not, for example, let defense counsel see the information being used against the accused, just summaries of the information. Earlier rules let counsel, but not the defendant, see the evidence. The new rules prohibit torture, but allow "coercion" to collect evidence. Know the difference? It's not made clear. For an update, see Jurist.

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