War on Terror: Gitmo JAG attacks legal process

Have you noticed how often we must rely on the BBC, The Guardian, The Economist, The Independent UK, foreign language papers, and, domestically, the McClatchy chain to do the reporting not being done by the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Washington Post and the "news" magazines, let alone the networks and CNN? As of this posting, this story from the Independent's Sunday edition had been picked up by dozens of blogs and a few alternative media sites, but not by a single major American media outlet. - JG

Guantanamo military lawyer breaks ranks to condemn 'unconscionable' detention

by Leonard Doyle in Washington (The Independent UK, 2007-1027)

An American military lawyer and veteran of dozens of secret Guantanamo tribunals has made a devastating attack on the legal process for determining whether Guantanamo prisoners are "enemy combatants".

The whistleblower, an army major inside the military court system which the United States has established at Guantanamo Bay, has described the detention of one prisoner, a hospital administrator from Sudan, as "unconscionable".

His critique will be the centrepiece of a hearing on 5 December before the US Supreme Court when another attempt is made to shut the prison down. So nervous is the Bush administration of the latest attack – and another Supreme Court ruling against it – that it is preparing a whole new system of military courts to deal with those still imprisoned.

The rest of the story: The Independent UK