From the article: GUANTANAMO BAY NAVY BASE, Cuba -- Pentagon prosecutors and defense lawyers in the USS Cole death penalty case held the first closed hearing of the Obama war court Friday. Army Brig. Gen. Mark Martins, the chief prosecutor, disclosed the length of the national security session but gave no details. He said the judge ordered production of a redacted transcript but gave no timetable for release. For the occasion, Kammen was sporting a kangaroo lapel pin. “Real justice occurs in the sunshine, not in secret,” he said, ducking every question about the first closed hearing of President Barack Obama’s war court. It was the first closed hearing under the Military Commissions Act of 2009, the war court Obama reformed to give the accused terrorists greater rights. Kammen said, however, the closed hearing violated the rights of his client, Abd al Rahim al Nashiri, who got to Guantánamo in 2006 after four years of secret CIA custody that included waterboarding and interrogating with a revving power drill and racked pistol. Read more here: miamiherald/2013/06/14/3451907/guantanamos-first-secret-national.html#storylink=cpy
Posted on: Sat, 15 Jun 2013 13:29:46 +0000
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