Link: New York Times Editorial - A Bad Bargain

Monday, 25 September 2006, 1:49 pm
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A Bad Bargain

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092206J.shtml
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/opinion/22fri1.html

Here is a way to measure how seriously President Bush was willing to compromise on the military tribunals bill: Less than an hour after an agreement was announced yesterday with three leading Republican senators, the White House was already laying a path to wiggle out of its one real concession.

About the only thing that Senators John Warner, John McCain and Lindsey Graham had to show for their defiance was Mr. Bush's agreement to drop his insistence on allowing prosecutors of suspected terrorists to introduce classified evidence kept secret from the defendant. The White House agreed to abide by the rules of courts-martial, which bar secret evidence. (Although the administration's supporters continually claim this means giving classified information to terrorists, the rules actually provide for reviewing, editing and summarizing classified material. Evidence that cannot be safely declassified cannot be introduced.)

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/092206J.shtml
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/opinion/22fri1.html

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