A Tale of 2 Gitmo Opinions: Ruling Altered to Hide Evidence of Dead, Tortured Witnesses

They must have taken this from the Bush "how to destroy a country, while lying to them" book...

Hiding the evidence . What shame .

It's called legal "realism".

As in the marketing of consumer products, what truly matters is maintaining the illusion of value or, in the case of social justice, the perception of legitimacy. Reaching the right result in any individual case is of almost no importance provided that a few showpiece cases perpetuate the image of a judicial system that is on balance fair. But in the muck below the level of the great show, American justice, in my view, is not a great leap forward compared to the black jails and corruption of China. Just as in China, the administration of justice is a tool for maintaining a stasis of power, for buttressing an oppression that is the engine of...commercial marketing; of the luxuries that make inequality so tantalizingly sweet.

Kennedy violated the marketing principles of American justice, and he was brought into compliance. But I thought we knew this already. Law schools churn out hypocrisy, proudly re-naming the practice the cultivation of a refined enthusiasm for ambiguity.

in a post holocaust world, this is the hugest black mark a society can have.it puts us in a catagory with pol pot and saddam hussien.actualy we might not be as bad as cambodia, but we (in this regard) are worse than saddam,uday,and qusey combined.

i guess bush needs to invade and overthrow himself to bring freedom to us.

how does one defend against a whole governement ? who can stash you away in some hole without anyone knowing or caring ? what about innocent until proven guilty ? where are all those human rights activists ? where are the baricade's fighting injustice ? "if a goverment becomes tyranical it's your duty to overtrow it ! " (a quote from some dumb ass white supremacist in a film by micheal moore , wich popped to mind , though in a different context.)

this is insane ! ofcourse the american public at large doesnt care about these people . but i didnt know about this . and it's scary as hell . where is the u.s 'standard on human rights ? on human dignity ? i for one hate the fact that the u.s took so many nazi's at the end of ww2 to the states ,just to further their political agenda's . and i thought and hoped that all this was in the past ! but i again (and many others ofcourse ) was dissapointed . how you treat your enemies and your prisoners is the best sign of your sivilication .
but most am i dissapointed with obama's stand on this.