This is SICKENING. Guilty until proven innocent. Plain as day.

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Listening in on Detainee Hearings (at Guantanemo Bay)

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6520816

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“Ninety-six percent of the time, [the government] produced no evidence of any sort,” Seton Hall law professor Mark Denbeaux told NPR’s Robert Siegel. Denbeaux represents two detainees and co-authored the report.

“They relied instead on secret evidence that was classified,” Denbeaux says. “And the government’s procedure was, anything in that secret evidence was presumed to be valuable and valid. And then the detainee was given the opportunity to rebut the secret evidence. But he was never told what the secret evidence was.”

The Pentagon dismisses such criticisms, arguing that the tribunals are fair, and that the detainees are allowed to state their case, and produce witnesses and evidence of their own.