U.S. Military Weighs Changes on Guantanamo

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SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico Mar 28, 2005 — The U.S. military is considering making substantial changes to the tribunals used to prosecute terror suspects held at Guantanamo Bay in order to strengthen the detainees' rights, Pentagon officials said Monday.

U.S. military lawyers are reviewing several versions of a draft manual that has been circulating for months, two officials said on condition of anonymity.

"There isn't a final product," one official said.

The comments came a day after The New York Times first reported the draft manual's existence. The manual, which is more than 200 pages long, proposes prohibiting confessions obtained by torture and hiring more independent judges to direct the tribunals, which are formally called military commissions, officials said.

The draft suggests making the commissions conform to a system of justice applied to U.S. soldiers in court martials, the officials said.

A spokeswoman for the commissions, Lt. Susan McGarvey, said military officials are always searching for ways to improve the commissions process, but she did not confirm the manual's existence.

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[bemildred]

1. "detainees' rights"

What rights? They have no rights. These fuckwits are arguing about
whether, in the unlikely event a kangaroo court is held, confessions
obtained by torture will be admitted as evidence, and whether some
of the judges in the kangaroo courts might be "independent".
:puke:

[NVMojo]

2. I am still shocked the US has gotten away with even one month of abuse

at this place and Abu ...