Looking ahead
Trials in these cases will not begin before 2015. President Obama should halt all military commission proceedings and announce that the trials will be held in federal civilian courts, which have shown they are more than capable of prosecuting terrorism cases. As demonstrated in both this piece and the one I wrote about al Nashiri’s pretrial hearings, justice is impossible to achieve in military commissions, where guilt is a foregone conclusion.
Marjorie Cohn is
a professor at Thomas Jefferson School of Law, former president of the
National Lawyers Guild and deputy secretary general of the International
Association of Democratic Lawyers. Her most recent book is The United
States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. Her next
book, Drones and Targeted Killing, will be published in 2014 by
University of California Press.
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