Guantanamo circus

Yesterday, the former chief prosecutor in Guantanamo took the stand--for the defense, in former Osama bin Laden driver Salim Hamdan's trial. No wallflower or bleeding heart liberal (he once compared detainees to vampires shrinking away from the bright light of American justice!), Col. Morris Davis testified that the military commissions set up to try detainees is essentially rigged and politically influenced. In addition to pointing out Bush political appointee's desire to use evidence secured through torture and the chilling demand by his superior that there can't be any acquittals, Morris asserted that "'There was that constant theme that if we don't get this thing rolling before the election, it's going to implode.' 'Once you get the victim families energized and the cases rolling, whoever took the White House would have difficulty stopping the process.'"

Evidently, the light of American justice no longer shines so bright.