New Evidence of Systemic Bias in Guantanamo Trials

Andy Worthington, author of The Guantánamo Files, continues his analysis of the corrupt command structure of the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, with new information from Maj. David Frakt, one of the Commissions' military defense lawyers. In the last three weeks, two events have occurred that have dealt what should have been a knockout blow to the Military Commissions at Guantánamo, the system of trials for "terror suspects" – outside of the US court system and the US military's own judicial system – that was created by Vice President Dick Cheney and his close advisers (in particular, his legal counsel David Addington) in November 2001. On September 24, Lt. Col. Darrel Vandeveld, the prosecutor in the case of Mohamed Jawad (an Afghan accused of throwing a grenade at a jeep containing two US soldiers and an Afghan... [read full story]