Time to End the 9/11 Military-Commission Debacle | National Review

We had it right in 1942, when 6 of 8 German saboteurs were executed 8 weeks after being captured, dry foot on US soil, denied habeas corpus and tried by military commission. None of them had hurt a fly nor destroyed any property, but had the means and intent to do so. They were found guilty of breaking the Geneva Conventions and convicted as spies. The law says those accused of war crimes may be held, without charge or trial, until the end of hostilities. It also says if tried, the accused would be afforded the SAME rights as US military personnel under the UCMJ. Instead of following that example, both GW Bush and Hussein Obama came up with Military Commissions Acts (2006 and 2009, respectively) that usurped the law, and ended up giving unlawful combatant Islamists who want to kill us virtually the SAME rights you or I would enjoy in a federal court of law. That's why the military commissions at Guantanamo Bay have failed to produce results.

MAJ Montgomery Granger My company provided the internal security of the court room and did the detainee moves to and from the court for the first four commissions. I knew we (the US) were screwed when I had two attorneys (both military) who were overt detainee sympathizers.

Wow. That has been a problem since Day 1. Fraternization with the enemy was a problem in 2002 as well. Human nature. But disciplined troops must resist. Fraternization is how the enemy manipulates you and then uses LAWFARE to reduce their incarceration time. The MSM LOVES to cite traitorous former guards, who are disloyal and say they mistreated or tortured detainees, or witnessed such. Some are still friends with their former charges. I'm not saying those things didn't happen, but the only institutionalized abuse was from detainees towards the guards, not the other way around. Any abuse, no matter how minor, that occurred at Gitmo while I was there was dealt with swiftly and harshly.