Yes, this sort of Orwellian crap hasn’t disappeared since Obama took office – and if you care at all about the rule of law, and how our own rights could very well be adversely affected by the precedents set by the institution of tribunals that represent a significant diminishment of the rule of law because of an ambiguous global war in perpetuity in which God knows what has been tarnished in the name of it, then you should be worried…
“While defending detainee Ramzi bin al-Shibh in one of the military tribunals at Guantanamo Bay, military defense lawyer Commander Suzanne Lachelier declared “the government can’t hide the fact that they used sleep deprivation …” that’s as far as she got.
At least as far as the spectators and media were able to discern, as military censors sprang immediately into action and cut her microphone off. The military has silenced the defense lawyers several times in what will likely be the closest thing many of these detainees ever see to a trial, claiming they are protecting “classified information.”
Classified information? That’s strange given that the ACLU just won a ruling in the habeas corpus case of Guantanamo detainee Mohammed Jawad regarding the suppression of those statements that he made while being tortured.
