Re: Watching Bush on tv lastnigh…
On Sep 7, 2006, at 8:19 PM, Dwayne Monroe wrote:
No, no, he protested…they (our intrepid protectors) know things we don’t.
Amazingly, the military’s top lawyers don’t agree with either your co- worker or the Pres:
Brig, Gen. James C. Walker, the top uniformed lawyer for the
Marines, said that no civilized country should deny a defendant the
right to see the evidence against him and that the United States
“should not be the first.”Maj. Gen. Scott C. Black, the judge advocate general of the Army,
made the same point, and Rear Adm. Bruce E. MacDonald, the judge
advocate general of the Navy, said military law provided rules for
using classified evidence, whereby a judge could prepare an
unclassified version of the evidence to share with the jury and the
accused and his lawyer.Senate Republicans said the proposal to deny the accused the right
to see classified evidence was one of the main points of contention
remaining between them and the administration.“It would be unacceptable, legally, in my opinion, to give someone
the death penalty in a trial where they never heard the evidence
against them,” said Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who
has played a key role in the drafting of alternative legislation as
a member of the Armed Services Committee and a military judge. “
‘Trust us, you’re guilty, we’re going to execute you, but we can’t
tell you why’? That’s not going to pass muster; that’s not necessary