Gitmo detainees want to stay there

[Cali Coug]

Originally Posted by Tex

This just gets more bizarre. On CNN, White House spokesman Robert Gibbs has again commented on the presumed guilt of KSM, saying this:



If the White House is out there practically guaranteeing both the outcome and the sentence, what is the purpose of trying them in a civil court in the first place?

I thought the reason we were doing this is to "show the world" how American jurisprudence works: habeas corpus, presumption of innocence, due process, etc. All of this is out the window. What you have here is an American show trial.

This is so amateurish it's embarrassing.

He didn't "guarantee" a verdict. He said "likely" which sounds about right.

For a trial to be fair, you don't need a 50% chance of acquittal. You do realize that, right?