The San Fransico Chronicle reports (emphasis and link mine):
As the Pentagon was making its final preparations for war crimes trials against four detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, two senior prosecutors complained in confidential messages last year that the trial system had been secretly arranged to improve the chance of conviction and to deprive defendants of material that could prove their innocence.
Some quotes from the prosecutors’ leaked emails:
I consider the insistence on pressing ahead with cases that would be marginal even if properly prepared to be a severe threat to the reputation of the military justice system and even a fraud on the American people … Surely they don’t expect that this fairly half-assed effort is all that we have been able to put together after all this time.
You have repeatedly said to the office that the military panel will be handpicked and will not acquit these detainees and that we only needed to worry about building a record for the review panel.
Also see coverage at Wikinews. And as usual Dan Gillmor isn’t mincing words.
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