Jameel Jaffer, Director of the ACLU's National Security Project, is observing the military tribunals in Guantanamo Bay this week. The ACLU is one of only four human rights organizations allowed to monitor the tribunals. Jameel wrote a first-hand account of the military judges' decisions to dismiss charges against both Omar Khadr and Salim Ahmed Hamdan on HuffingtonPost.com. He writes:
Yesterday's rulings throw the military tribunals once more into disarray...Rather than attempt to prop up the ailing commissions, the Bush administration should at long last retire them altogether. There is in the end nothing surprising about the fact that the commissions have failed; as one of the military defense counsel observed, no one should have thought it would be easy to invent a new legal system. If they are propped up again, it will not be long before the commissions reel into yet another crisis.
Read the full entry on HuffingtonPost.com.
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