Democratic vice presidential nominee John Edwards said yesterday that a
John F. Kerry administration would scrap the military commissions
created by President Bush to try suspected al Qaeda and Taliban
fighters detained at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and would instead establish
a new system modeled on military courts-martial. "The Bush
administration has ignored the model of the military courts-martial. We
will use that model as a basis for future trials of detainees," Edwards
said in a statement e-mailed in response to a question posed to him
over the weekend. "We will ensure that this process, from the quality
of translators to the treatment of evidence to the selection of judges,
is handled with the seriousness and competence that is essential for
such sensitive national security cases." [more ]
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