Saturday, July 21, 2007

Moving towards fairness

An appeals court ruled that the government must share the information it has on the Guantanamo detainees with those detainees, much like the prosecution is supposed to do in our normal court system. However, the ruling allows the government to control what the defense attorneys talk about with their clients and the feds can read the lawyers' mail and delete 'unauthorized' comments. Overall, it's a step in the right direction. Surprisingly, the decision was written by Douglas Ginsburg, who was once nominated for the Supreme Court.

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