Focus (Forum & Focus)
Feb. 22, 2008
Attempting to Sanitize Injustice at Guantánamo
Forum Column - By Marjorie Cohn - The federal government is working overtime trying to clean up the legal mess made by the use of illegal interrogation methods at Guantánamo.
By Marjorie Cohn
This article appears on Page 6.
The Bush administration has announced its intention to try six alleged al-Qaida members at Guantánamo under the Military Commissions Act. The act forbids the admission of evidence extracted by torture, although it permits evidence obtained by cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment if it was secured before Dec. 30, 2005. Thus, the administration would be forbidden ...
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