Obama's Guantánamo Show Trials

It just gets better and better.

So, the details of the plan are dribbling out and it's a distinction without a difference as was made clear when the New York Times obtained a filing made to the judges running the military commissions.

Remember the statement that, "The accused will have greater latitude in selecting their counsel?"

Not so much, Bush and His Evil Minions^™ required that the defendants' lawyers be appointed by the Pentagon, and, "assigned to a special office of military defense lawyers for Guantánamo, which meant, among other things, that they had to be uniformed military, and in the filing to the judges, Obama and His Evil Minions^™ say that a detainee would be allowed to select a lawyer of their "own choosing", but that the, "requested lawyer must be assigned to the Pentagon’s office of military defense lawyers for Guantánamo."

"Any color you want, so long as it's black," quoth Henry Ford.

Furthermore, the right to confront witnesses against them will be ignored by using a very broad hearsay rule, because, according to "senior administration officials" said that although federal courts bar many kinds of hearsay evidence, “the hearsay rule is not one of those things that is rooted in American values.”

The right to confront witnesses in court is one of the most basic of legal rights in our system since the excesses of the Star Chamber in England.

Note that while coerced testimony will not be allowed, that the defendant will not be allowed to question the primary source of the testimony, only their interrogator, or possibly just someone who reads the interrogator's report, will confirm this.